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| DavorOcelic, HCOOP Inc. system administrator and Board of Directors member. | Davor Ocelic, HCOOP Inc. Board of Directors member (currently serving as President) and System Administrator. = Board of Directors position = I should give you a word on the nature of the Board of Directors position within HCoop, Inc. HCoop is democratic in its roots, thanks to the original principles set by one of the original four founders, Adam Chlipala. This means the power is held within the member base, and within the Board of Directors (see our HcoopBylaws page). So the Board of Directors (BoD) position has a few specifics: * the Board consists of 5 members * each directors is worth a whole 20%, and two-thirds of the board can take immediate action * the number of directors will not grow linearly with the number of HCoop members * the position requires combination of both management and technical abilities. Management will be gaining importance over technical ability as we continue to improve our hands-free systems infrastructure, and as we get to accept more and more members I think it is important that you pay close attention to the Board being a "good balance of skills, geographic locations, and personalities" (quoting NathanKennedy). An update will follow here with a review of our last year's performance and plans for the next year. == Board of Directors position (2008) == I would like to thank everyone who voted for me on our third BoD HCOOP elections (see [[Election2008]]). == Board of Directors position (2007) == I would like to thank everyone who voted for me on our third BoD HCOOP elections (see [[Election2007]]). == Board of Directors position (2006) == I would like to thank everyone who voted for me on our second BoD HCOOP elections (see [[Election2006]]). == Board of Directors position (2005) == I would like to thank everyone who voted for me on our first BoD HCOOP elections (see [[Election2005]]). |
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| AdamChlipala is primarily taking care of the HCOOP Wiki, Members portal and DomainTool (along with all the services configured through it). He also created most of the new accounts. |
I'm happy to say we've set up a successful Kerberos/OpenAFS based system infrastructure, and we've been running pretty well all this time. |
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| The areas that I cover include the installation, firewall, database, quota, limit, kernel, logging and security system. There's probably more I could do in each of those areas, but I'm generally satisfied with the level we've achieved. I also take part in the usual Request Ticket resolution. |
We have 4 servers (Deleuze, Mire, Krunk, Outpost), and the 5th one is on the way to being set up and handling all HCoop email. This will reduce load from our main server Deleuze and hopefully bring better database performance. If databases will still be a problem, we have another system we will be able to use for that purpose. |
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| = Board of Directors position (2006) = My year 2005 platform was pretty brief. Namely, one year ago * we were still using our old server (abulafia.hcoop.net) * we were half the current size * more of us were visiting #hcoop channel at the FreeNode IRC network (irc.gnu.org server, for example) * more manual user-to-admin communication was required * all new users had to exchange a mail or two with me Today, things are looking different. We have * the new server (hopefully with increased automation and security infrastructure) * a nice member base (kind greeting to everyone who joined through our new partly-automated setup!) * an extraordinary members portal ([http://members.hcoop.net/] - all fame richly deserved by AdamChlipala), and this new wiki ([http://wiki.hcoop.net/]) Consequently, I think you are not as generally familiar with me as the older members were a year ago. Therefore, I feel I should include a brief summary of who I am, and what are my plans for HCOOP in 2006. My name is Davor Ocelic, I am a Computer Science graduate (specializing in hardware logic and systems), and live in Croatia (timezone GMT+1, with even a few pictures available at [http://colt.projectgamma.com/tmp/op/]). I am actively involved in Free Software. My ongoing work includes proof-reading and arranged official co-autorship for [http://debiansystem.info/books The Debian System] book (see also [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593270690/ Amazon.com entry]), position in the [http://www.icdevgroup.org/ Interchange Development Group], and of course HCOOP activities. For a more complete list of my technology-related activities, see my personal website at [http://colt.projectgamma.com/]. I am also the person who likes to catch on interesting ideas, difficult problems or innovative approaches. As the older members would tell you (I hope ;-) ), your e-mail regarding anything HCoop-related is never unwelcome in my inbox. Since years ago when I turned 20 or 21, I've lost the feeling of what my "free time" actually is. Anyway, it's probably standard to include a phrase "In my free time, I..." somewhere in introduction, so I'll follow the suit. In my free time, I play tennis, listen to smooth music ([http://www.di.fm/] and [http://www.last.fm/] being my cream sources), educate myself in areas of human mind, body and physique, and do body building (trying to balance between the "classic" and Pete Sisco's approach). This is what I try to give attention to, anything else that comes unplanned is just as welcome. What I am planning to do in the next one year's time, is: |
As far as our current technology and my system administrator position at HCOOP are concerned, as always I plan to: |
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| * develop a global (authentication and other) infrastructure for all HCoop servers * anything else that pops up "on the fly" |
* help with other tasks that pop up |
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| As you might know, just recently one of our great admins, Michael Olson, stepped down from the sysadmin position. I'd like to thank Mike for all the excellent work he has done, and would like to invite skilled members to signup for hcoop-sysadmin@ mailing list, and eventually volunteer for the position. We currently have another member, David Crawshaw, who will probably become another admin, but we're on the edge of being underpowered, and we'd gladly accept further sysadmin candidates. | |
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| I also think I should give you a word on the nature of the Board of Directors position. HCoop is democratic in its roots. Even though we all (or I myself, at least) perceive Adam Chlipala as "The HCoop founder", you must clearly understand that Adam is not almighty, especially since we became a legal and officially recognized group in all aspects (HCOOP, Inc.). The power is held within the member base, and ultimately within the Board of Directors (read our HcoopBylaws page). |
Current list of tasks the sysadmins are handling is listead at page TaskDistribution. |
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| The Board of Directors (BoD) position has a few specifics: * the number of directors is very small (only three of all members, as you see) * the position requires combination of both management and technical abilities * each directors is worth a whole 33.3%, and two-thirds of the board can take immediate action * the number of directors will not grow linearly with the number of HCoop members |
Our hardware list is at [[Hardware]]. |
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| For the above, it is important that you pay close attention to the Board being a "good balance of skills, geographic locations, and personalities" (as NathanKennedy nicely put it). And there is another part of Nathan's sentence that I liked very much as well: |
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| "I hope you will re-elect the three current members of the board (Adam Chlipala, Nathan Kennedy, and Davor Ocelic). I believe that together we can continue to bring the membership together to create a service that gets better all the time. |
Pointers to various projects I'm involved with: |
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| Thank you! | * [[http://www.icdevgroup.org/|Interchange Development Group]], authors of Interchange, a powerful e-commerce solution and general-purpose platform * [[http://www.spinlocksolutions.com/|Spinlock Solutions]], my company website |
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| -doc = Board of Directors position (2005) = I would like to thank everyone who voted for me on our first BoD HCOOP elections (see ["Election2005"]). Close to what I initially predicted, our first year was marked mostly by advances in the system setup. On a parallel front, NathanKennedy was working on issues related to our legal status (see [http://hcoop.net/board/]). Few members-related issues did pop up, but nothing that would require the Board to meet outside of the scheduled meetings. |
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Davor Ocelic, HCOOP Inc. Board of Directors member (currently serving as President) and System Administrator.
1. Board of Directors position
I should give you a word on the nature of the Board of Directors position within HCoop, Inc. HCoop is democratic in its roots, thanks to the original principles set by one of the original four founders, Adam Chlipala.
This means the power is held within the member base, and within the Board of Directors (see our HcoopBylaws page).
So the Board of Directors (BoD) position has a few specifics:
- the Board consists of 5 members
- each directors is worth a whole 20%, and two-thirds of the board can take immediate action
- the number of directors will not grow linearly with the number of HCoop members
- the position requires combination of both management and technical abilities. Management will be gaining importance over technical ability as we continue to improve our hands-free systems infrastructure, and as we get to accept more and more members
I think it is important that you pay close attention to the Board being a "good balance of skills, geographic locations, and personalities" (quoting NathanKennedy).
An update will follow here with a review of our last year's performance and plans for the next year.
1.1. Board of Directors position (2008)
I would like to thank everyone who voted for me on our third BoD HCOOP elections (see Election2008).
1.2. Board of Directors position (2007)
I would like to thank everyone who voted for me on our third BoD HCOOP elections (see Election2007).
1.3. Board of Directors position (2006)
I would like to thank everyone who voted for me on our second BoD HCOOP elections (see Election2006).
1.4. Board of Directors position (2005)
I would like to thank everyone who voted for me on our first BoD HCOOP elections (see Election2005).
2. System administrator position
I'm happy to say we've set up a successful Kerberos/OpenAFS based system infrastructure, and we've been running pretty well all this time.
We have 4 servers (Deleuze, Mire, Krunk, Outpost), and the 5th one is on the way to being set up and handling all HCoop email. This will reduce load from our main server Deleuze and hopefully bring better database performance. If databases will still be a problem, we have another system we will be able to use for that purpose.
As far as our current technology and my system administrator position at HCOOP are concerned, as always I plan to:
- continue with the current, usual system administration tasks
- improve on the security infrastructure
- help with other tasks that pop up
As you might know, just recently one of our great admins, Michael Olson, stepped down from the sysadmin position. I'd like to thank Mike for all the excellent work he has done, and would like to invite skilled members to signup for hcoop-sysadmin@ mailing list, and eventually volunteer for the position. We currently have another member, David Crawshaw, who will probably become another admin, but we're on the edge of being underpowered, and we'd gladly accept further sysadmin candidates.
Current list of tasks the sysadmins are handling is listead at page TaskDistribution.
Our hardware list is at Hardware.
3. Other
Pointers to various projects I'm involved with:
Interchange Development Group, authors of Interchange, a powerful e-commerce solution and general-purpose platform
Spinlock Solutions, my company website