diff --git a/entries/userops.txt b/entries/userops.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bfd12e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/entries/userops.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +userops + +Combination of "user" and "operations". Someone who is not a software +developer or a systems administrator, but who runs their own internet +services from a server. This might also be called lightweight systems +administration, in which software tools make the administration tasks +simpler and so do not require the traditionally detailed knowledge of +a systems administrator. + +The term was invented by Christopher Allan Webber and Deb Nicholson at +FOSDEM 2015.