SCCS

[edit] Basic Information

Founded in 1991-2, in part, to support the activities of students in two adjacent dorms who had decided to create an Appletalk network by stringing phone cable between rooms.
One fileserver, one login server, lab of 4-6 machines running Debian Linux, two running OS X, and one running OS 9, for kicks. Also a collection of gaming consoles attached to a projector.
Services offered:
- e-mail (postfix)
- mailing lists (mailman)
- SSH login
- file storage
- physical lab
- webhosting
- cgi
- digital still and video camera loan
- photo printing
- Subversion repositories and Trac instances.
Approximate userbase:
- 1600 accounts, including students, staff/faculty, alumni
- webhosting for 170 student groups
- mailing lists for 300 student groups.
URL: http://sccs.swarthmore.edu

Four to ten sysadmins and general factota, spanning from second-semester first year students to seniors.
- No formal hierarchy, but a loose sense of seniority.
Accounts and services are available to anyone enrolled at or employed by Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr or Haverford.
Accounts persist past graduation.
Users are actively invited to request new services and systems. Historically there has been a policy board made of active users, with a sysadmin representative. The need for this has declined, though, and the practice has lapsed.

Los Task Request System — allowing users to request common tasks (new accounts, new group webspace, new mailing lists, new subversion repositories, etc.) through a web form, and executing them only after sysadmin approval.
Trackle — an extension to Trac integrating bug tickets with shell-tracking sessions, allowing for automatic recording of steps taken to rectify a problem.