[wplug] We need something like this in PGH (Fw: February Meeting - SysAdmin Games)

[Tom Rhodes]

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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:15:17 -0500
From: Mike Erdely
To: 
Subject: February Meeting - SysAdmin Games


This month, we'll be meeting on Tuesday, February 26 at Raba in
Columbia, MD: http://corporate.raba.com/location/locationMD.htm

Jason Dixon will be serving as BOFH for our first SysAdmin Games.

Please read below for more information.  Sorry for the late notice and
we look forward to seeing you there.

-ME

----- Forwarded message from Jason Dixon <jason at dixongroup.net> -----

Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:24:35 -0400
From: Jason Dixon
Subject: Reminder: October Meeting - SysAdmin Games
To:

Our next meeting is scheduled for this Tuesday, October 30 at Raba 
Technologies in Columbia, MD.  This month we will be hosting our first ever 
"SysAdmin Games" workshop.  As usual, the meeting will wind up at 
Nottingham's afterwards for beers and food.

The main focus of this meeting is to have fun learning more about what we 
already enjoy... BSD administration.  But since this might be a recurring 
event, our official theme this month will be "Secure Webservers".  We will 
be utilizing a VMware Server running virtual machines for each of the team 
images.  Each virtual system will have local network access only, with a 
dedicated sandbox system for external access (see "life-line" information 
below) and testing purposes.

We will need an additional laptop for each team, for managing each 
respective virtual machine (via VMware web client or SSH).  I think we will 
have this covered easily, but if you have a laptop you want to bring in for 
your team, please do.  Here are the details, let me know if you have any 
questions.

P.S.  Yes, I will be serving as the BOFH.  :)


bofh$ cat sysadmin_games.txt

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# Theme
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* Secure Webservers


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# Goals
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* Install a BSD operating system and dependencies as needed
* Configure networking
* Configure the host firewall
* Configure a webserver with a self-signed certificate
* Configure start-up services


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# Rules
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* Each team will have a "mentor".  This individual will act as a team 
leader and "life-line" resource for the competition.

* Each team will have a series of 3 "life-lines".  The life-line period is 
a maximum of 10 minutes.
	1) Mentor = A team may request the assistance of the mentor from another 
team.  If the question is satisfied
	(to be determined by the BOFH), the mentor's team receives a 10-point 
bonus.  If the question is *not* satisfied,
	the mentor's team receives a 10-point debit.  An assisting mentor may 
*not* utilize their own life-lines for the
	purpose of assisting another team.
	2) Google = A team may utilize any internet resource for research on their 
project.
	3) Phone = A team member may call one individual for assistance.  
Competition participants are excluded from
	being an assisting party.

* Each team will use a different BSD operating system selection.  This will 
be determined by a series of trivial questions at the beginning of the 
competition.  The team to correctly answer a question gets to select the 
BSD used by *their choice* of one of the other remaining teams.  This will 
continue until all teams have been assigned an operating system.
	Example: Team A wins the first question.  They choose DragonflyBSD for 
Team C.  Team B wins the second question.
	They choose NetBSD for Team A.  Team C wins the final question.  They 
choose MirBSD for Team A (poor bastards).

* Each team will have a maximum of one hour to complete the allotted tasks.

* Each team will have 10 minutes to present their final results to the BOFH 
for points redemption.


###############
# Awards
###############

* The winning team gets a free round of beer at Nottingham's.

# EOF


---
Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting


-- 
Tom Rhodes