Seattle Community Network (Score 1)

Seattle Community Network also posts our volunteer listings on VolunteerMatch. We've found VolunteerMatch to be a particularly good service.

Here are a couple of volunteer posts that might appeal to some Slashdot readers. You don't have to be local to do these. (We don't even have an office.)

SCN gets picked on a lot by policy wonks (and policy wanks), researchers and people looking for an example of community networks, so you'll have a chance to use your Unix-troglodyte personality to keep us universally loved.

We're starting to design a new network, which probably will be based mostly on Linux. If you're better at it than we are, you're welcome to help with this, even if you've just seen a postcard of the place.

- Rod Clark, [e-mail]
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Seattle Community Directory

• Unix System Administrator

  Unix sysadmin:
  Expertise in some of these areas (or Unix in general): SunOS, Solaris, Linux. Unix security. PPP, dialup. Sendmail, SMTP, IMAP, Majordomo. DNS, Web domain hosting, Apache modules. C, Perl, PHP, SQL, DB support. Usenet.

  Use your system administration skills to make a difference for thousands of people and hundreds of nonprofits and community groups in Western Washington. Administer our network, improve and expand our communications services to the community. Support specific areas of the network or do overall troubleshooting. Work from your own home or office, in whatever hours you have available. If possible, attend a monthly SysOps meeting.

  Lead or senior sysadmin:
  Build a team of qualified system administrators to support a planned new network. Establish good practices, reliability, current standards. Assure SysOps team's responsiveness to program needs. If possible, participate in the design of the new network.

• Webmaster / Project Manager

  SCN is seeking a technical webmaster for our Web site at www.scn.org. This individual will support our web editors and the many community groups' Web sites hosted on SCN. Work with the system administrators to improve Unix software support for the current site and migrate to a new system within the next 6-12 months. Many maintenance projects, upgrades and other technical challenges are inherent in this position.

  We are looking for someone who has at least 2 years of experience running comparable or larger sites. Prefer at least one year of project management experience, excellent process methodology, and a sincere desire to help the community. This individual will be part of our Executive Committee, and must report progress and contribute to overall planning and problem solving at an Excomm meeting each month.