Stuybash.org is looking for a new tech admin and new moderators
Welcome back to Stuybash.org! Stuybash.org has been down due to severe data loss caused by the hosting provider. I have since hand-rolled a new platform for Sbo on its own server, and recovered a relatively ancient manual backup (the automatic backups were lost).
However, I'm getting too old for this; I'd like to hand this site, with all of the improvements to performance and reliability I've just made, to a fresh new administration team. If you get excited about configuration scripts and shell-fu, and love Stuy's liveliness and unique culture, let me know!
Tech Admin: Can you keep the site running?
- Maintain and revise a Perl/XHTML/CSS/JS web app
- Deal with old school CGI (seriously) running wrapped as FastCGI, then interfaced with Nginx
- Manage a MySQL database
- Do normal sysadmin stuff: SSH, config files, scheduling/restoring backups, etc.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) would be nice
Also, as before, Stuybash.org needs mods who prevent the site from falling into a cesspool of poorly-styled libel.
Moderator: Got taste?
- Quickly decides what's funny and what's not
- Awesome at grammar: the SATs are a joke to you and my writing offends you
- Incredibly obsessive over details: it hurts you when quotes leave out that space after the "//" in the exposition, and you hate it when somebody uses "Mr. Esper."
- Understands the First Amendment, with style: Sbo should be a wonderful, independent expression of Stuy's little quirks, and not some outlaw dungheap pitting faculty against students
- Prefers celebrating students' hilarious and uniquely Stuy experiences to gossipping about teachers (sometimes these intersect)
Email me at xo@geekshavefeelings.com with your year at Stuy, what role you'd like to play for Stuybash.org, and a short note about why you're the best at it.
Oh right, it's "Stuybash.org," for @#$%'s sake, not "Stuybash." If you're going to bash Stuy, there's a P.S. K430 in Brooklyn you can attend instead.