A sysadmin is someone who has done admin on a system. That’s you! 😎

(I have similar conversations in the running community: a runner is someone who runs. The unspoken part: they’re a runner, regardless of the apparel they wear, the shoes they run in, and most importantly, the pace they run)

a sysadmin administers systems.

There will always be sysadmins with more knowledge and experience than you, no matter how long you do it.

A good sysadmin is willing to learn and take advice from others, and to learn from their own mistakes so they will do it better next time.

A dangerous sysadmin thinks they know everything!

You are a good sysadmin!

Welcome follow sysadmin.

Do not forget the developers at the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting I expect a big part of your audience will self-identify more as "developer" than as "sysadmin".

I'd love to wear such a shirt, but I am not your target audience:-(

It is good to be humble as a social play, but... like, I'm trying to identify when I started casually referring to myself by the generic label of "musician," because...

(speaking as someone who has held the job title of Sysadmin and self-identifies as such now, and does not plan to stop, whether I ever hold that job title again)

...I think the line for you to call yourself a Sysadmin is actually more analogous to when I started calling myself a musician.

I myself have been thinking a lot that it's time to reclaim the word "User," which (sometimes optionally having the prefix of "End" added) became derogatory in the 90s, and bring it back to its 1982 Tron meaning.

After I saw Tron, I wanted to be a User. I remain a User, first and foremost. Users made this place. Death to the MCP.

Call yourself a Sysadmin if you wanna. You Administer Systems, and I guarantee you are more capable than some holders of the job title I've had to deal with.

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I don't think there's any copyright on the "sysadmin" word, so anybody can use it.

Then, there are different kind of sysadmins. Some have been working in that domain during the last 30 years and some others started 2 years ago: the difference is in the experience not in the role, so you can use that name.

Finally, you can use the CLI on a Linux system and most Windows sysadmins can't do that, so once more you can use that name.

I'm sure that shirt will fit you perfectly.

As was already said, you administrate systems, so you're a sysadmin.

I've been doing it for more than 3 decades, and in my opinion a good sysadmin is one who takes pride in their work and tries to do it well, and is willing to learn. Everything else is less important (like, how big of a system, how big your userbase, how advanced the tech you use is or how much money, if any, you make).

And I didn't even have two years of linux under my belt before I decided "sure I can build an ISP".

Talk about gender stereotypes...

There are plenty of dudes who'd barely qualify and happily slap it on a t-shirt. Here you are, a woman, very clearly qualified and yet you aren't sure...

You earned the t-shirt. 😀

Go on. If you need an official blessing by a (former) sysadmin, here it is.

In recognition of merit, hereby I anoint you as a sysadmin.

Congratulations, shaking hands, hugs. Good luck 💜

PS. Squeee 🥰

administrated systems ✅ -> sysadmin.

I think a "sysadmin" or a "totally not a sysadmin" with fake glasses and moustache would be wonderful!

I think the cybersecurity people will love a "securing cyber..." or a "../" shirt

FOSDEM feels like it is more Dev than sysadmin oriented, but you can definitely make both sysadmin and (FOSS) "dev" or (FOSS) "maintainer" variants for people who have done some cool contributions.

Poke @iczelia not sure if you go to FOSDEM, but you deserve a "maintainer" cool piece of clothing.

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People will always have strange requirements for when they think you're a sysadmin. You will never be able to meet those requirements, so just ignore them.

If you take care of a computer, you're a sysadmin. I guarantee that very many people who call themselves sysadmins know way less. If you had to be an expert at sysadmin stuff to call yourself that, most of the people I've met during 30 years doing sysadmin stuff wouldn't qualify.

"open source maintainer" would be a good one for fosdem.

and yes, you can call yourself a sysadmin if you run your own systems :)

from my Dutch upbringing it was always "if you can't say it sing it". But reading your message multi modality seems to be something you nailed down.

My blunt Dutch approach would be to preach to as many people willing to listen as possible, and go/learn from there. But to be frank I'm not sure it is a hammer and nail problem.