System Administrator Appreciation Day

Friday 30 of July is the 11th System Administrator Appreciation Day.

A system administrator is a person, that is employed to maintain and operate a computer network system. The duties include installing, supporting and maintaining computer, client and server systems. The duties include planning for, and responding to, service outages and other problems. The duties include scripting and light programming, project management, supervising and training of computer operators. In order to do well, a system administrator must show a blend of technical skills and responsibility.

A system administrator may be a member of an information technology (IT) department, Unix user group (UUG) and Linux user group (LUG).

This means, that if you are able to read this, then thank your system administrator, who made sure, that your computer is working, that your computer can connect safely to the internet, that you can communicate across the world in seconds, that your files are backed up in case of human or technical disaster, that your printer work, that your server and services respond 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

However, often we do not know our system administrator as well as our system administrator knows us. Therefore, the annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is the day, that we can show our appreciation in words, cakes, mugs or other token gifts.

The annual System Administrator Appreciation Day is last Friday of July.