A few days ago techtarget published a short interview about the OSU Open Source Lab, where I worked while studying at OSU:
“Lance Albertson, architect and systems administrator at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, uses a sys admin staff of 18-21-year-old undergrads to manage servers for some high-profile, open-source projects (Linux Master Kernel, Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, and Drupal to name a few). In this Q&A, Albertson talks about the challenges of using young sys admins and the lab’s plans to move from Cfengine to Puppet for systems management.”
I must say, the work I’ve seen student sys admins do at the OSL is outstanding, and I’ve met some of the sharpest people there I’ve ever worked with. Glad to hear they are still going strong.
Over 600 people was way more than the previous (student) record:
The previous college record was set at the College of William and Mary in Richmond, Va., where 242 people participated in the dance routine that student Kevin Dua organized. Dua’s group beat the previous record of 147 people in an event at a British secondary school.
Here is the official footage of the event:
Of course, this has not been the first attempt to spectacularly perform this music video. Here’s another video of a group of prisoners doing the same thing:
Update: As a commenter points out, the OSU admissions blog has blogged the whole thing too, and provided some HD-quality video of the event, which I have replaced the old video with.
This past valentine’s day a few days ago was not only even cheesier than last year’s (on the radio, they were making up a “Valentine’s Eve” on the 13th already — how long until Valentine’s week, month or year emerge?), it was also the 150th birthday of the State of Oregon. If I had to choose what American state I’d like to be a Citizen of, Oregon would rank pretty high on the list.
