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That's funny; you know I was just telling someone about this Friday.. One thing I notice about the colo/ibx/peering buildings is there is always someone there.. Granted they are working on their own stuff but if there was some way collectively if we could all show up on a website when we are "in working" it would be a great resource of people to ask at least. I'd be happy to help if I was on site when someone needed something. I bet we could get some sort of co-op from the datacenters themselves too (using in-house badge/bioscan/etc) to allow the registered members info of in-time to be passed to a website. Combine that with a list of people in each area to contact willing to come in and do stuff no matter where they are or what they are doing and you may have 90% of your solution. I don't think we are talking about a free service here either. I bet lots of people would be willing to help if they were in the area and were going to get some booty cash. -Scotty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Day" <[email protected]> To: "James Deibele" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 7:31 PM Subject: Re: Remote hands ANYWHERE? > > At 03:52 PM 4/13/2003, you wrote: > >We would also have need for occasional non-emergency upgrades and > >additions. The reason we'd like a company is that we don't want someone > >on vacation at exactly the time we need those hands on our boxes. > > > >With the amount of internet equipment scattered around the US (and the > >world) it seems like there's a business here for somebody. Just not us. > > This sort of thing has occurred to me several times. I'm available here in > Chicago and would be happy to lend a hand when needed, but we've got some > equipment scattered here too and I could use some help when I'm not > available at home as well. > > Any thoughts/comments about some kind of web based clearinghouse/matchmaker > site for people/companies willing to work as remote hands, what city/cities > they're available in, hours of availability and the such. Companies such as > you can use it to find long term arrangements such as this, or even just > use it as a reference when you have a router die at 3am half way across the > planet and you can't reach your employee there and need to find someone NOW? > > I'd be willing to whip up something like this and host it. The only thing > holding me back is the uncertainty that something like this would actually > be used. I think it'd be a great tool for companies to find people in a > pinch, and great for network engineers to get the occasional bit of work. > > If any of you would like to let me know (off list) what your thoughts are > on this, features or suggestions, and I'll summarize later. > > > > >
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