The Arusha Project sees the Unix sysadmin world as full of wonderful "solutions" to various problems, provided by various teams. You assemble your own desired result from all these "solutions", and (if you wish) you make your "solutions" available for others to choose from.

That's all lovely and open-minded, but the fact remains that some "solutions" are Good and Right and Beautiful, and others are Bad and Wrong and Ugly :-) The Arusha core developers have their opinions on these matters, and this Sidai team is where they express them.

(`Sidai' is a Maa word for `good' or `attractive'; the Arusa dialect spins off from Maa, the language of the Maasai people.)

While it's great to be able to draw on sysadmin ideas from any team, a great site will be based on a coherent set of interlocking design decisions. The sum is greater than the parts. The Sidai team seeks to demonstrate just such a thing.

What's here:

Ideas documents:: Some ideas behind the Sidai way of looking at things.
Design documents:: Specifically Arusha-esque subjects, with a design flavor...
Tools documents:: Quite a lot of tools are lurking in Sidai-land; here is some documentation.

See also: we've put `culture' and opinion pieces and general notes about how we did specific tasks in sections on their own.