Today is the well renowned international holiday, Sysadmin Appreciation Day.
Remember to take some time out to thank your sysadmin – or possibly even buy her a beer. Or a nice glass of pinot noir.
System administrators do a lot of hard work that doesn’t often get recognised. We’re the people who keep the websites and email running. We’re the people who get called out at 3am to go and find out why the database server has just fallen on it’s face. We’re the people who have to be on the leading edge of every technology, to exploit the newest features of the kernel and drivers to get the kind of solutions we’re asked for. We’re the people who take the chaos that is computing and poke it into some kind of shape for you, the user.
That’s what I do for my day job with a team of awesome people for somewhere close to 500 systems. I get paid pretty well for it too, even though I was still working at 10pm last night…
KDE’s sysadmins on the other hand, do it for the love of the project. KDE is a large project and it’s infrastructure needs to be extremely robust to deal with all of the SVN accounts, email addresses, mailing lists and websites that the sysadmin team maintains. It’s a professional quality solution built by experts for the love of KDE.
Our KDE sysadmins Dirk Mueller, David Faure, Stephan Binner & Stephan Kulow deserve our thanks and appreciation today.
I worked as a Sysadmin some time back so I feel your pain.
Cheers to all the KDE sysadm’s, pints all around!
I hope you got cake.
Actually, no! I asked my boss for a beer and he sent me a picture of a beer. I feel a bit unappreciated =)