System Administration

Website

The PyCon ZA website is hosted on the CTPUG server, with the wildcard domain entry provided by the FSF.

The website is powered by a wafer instance.

The sysadmin team is responsible for maintaining the infrastructure needed for the website, which includes updating and maintaining the wafer installation and deploying any site updates that require access to the system.

Organiser Repo

For sharing information amongst the committee, we host per-year private git repos on the CTPUG server.

This repo is administered using gitolite. The sysadmin team is responsible for setting up the repo, managing the access keys to the repository and managing any notification settings (irker, slack, etc) required.

PyCon ZA theme repo

We create and run a repo for the theming and additional features needed for PyCon ZA. This is created under the CTPUG organisation on github.

Email aliases

We maintain a number of email aliases for the conference.

The core email aliases are:

• team@za.pycon.org - This is the general catch-all contact address. The core organising committee should recieve email sent to this address.
• talks@za.pycon.org - The talk contact address. The core talk review committee should recieve mail sent to this address.
• funding@za.pycon.org - Contact address for funding / bursary applications. The funding committee should be on this aliases. For historical reasons, the bursaries@za.pycon.org alias forwards to this address as well.
• services@za.pycon.org - Email for subscription / service management. The sysadmin team should recieve email to this address.
• conduct@za.pycon.org - Code of conduct contact address. The members of the code of conduct committee should be on this alias during and after the conference.

Other email aliases can be created as needed, for specific side events or so forth.