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| first name = Connor
| first name = Connor
| last name = Sanders
| last name = Sanders
| picturefile = ConnorS.jpg
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| active from = 2019
| active from = 2019
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| positions = Head of Archives
| positions = Head of Archives
| hometown = Leeds?
| hometown = Leeds
| allegiance = Triple Threat
| degrees = Mathematics
| degrees = Mathematics
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= About =
= About =
As an undeserved recipient of the 2020-21 "Rhys' Bitch Award", Connor found time better spent in the volumous collection of flammable goods that sat between 2 fire escapes, than in some sad delusion of a YSTV "computing team". A computing team where he'd form one third of the infamous "[[Triple Threat]]": a trio of wannabe sysadmins who believed different philosophies about literally every part of their job. Connor was a person of absolute minimalism with systems (at the time, running dwm on a self-configured arch install). While [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] might download an outdated, abandoned github repo ("but Connor, it's written in Go!" he would say) and [[Dom Hall|Dom]] might find some enterprise, proprietary, bloated subscription service riddled with spyware, 90% of the time the obvious solution is just a bash script. And it is - as was made very evident in every Computing meeting.  
As an undeserved recipient of the 2020-21 "Rhys' Bitch Award", Connor found time better spent under the volumous, flammable goods that sat between 2 fire escapes, than in the sad delusion of a YSTV "computing team". A computing team where he'd form one third of the infamous "[[Triple Threat]]": a trio of emotionally rotund sysadmins who believed wildly different philosophies about every single part of their job. Connor was a person of absolute minimalism (dwm? Self-configured arch install? Need I say more?). While [[Rhys Milling|Rhys (DJ) Milling]] might download an outdated, abandoned github repo ("but Connor, it's written in Go!" he would say) and [[Dom Hall|Dom "have you finished it yet" Hall]] might find some "enterprise", proprietary, bloated subscription service riddled with spyware (which wouldn't be so bad if the damn thing actually worked), 90% of the time the obvious solution is just a bash script. And surprise surprise it always (eventually) works.


He may spend more time than socially acceptable doing computing tasks (organised neatly on a pristine Trello board, of his own design) but his actual role is [[Heads of Archives|Head of Archives]], where he spends even more time [[2021_Archive_Redo#Archive_meetings_and_libraries|ignoring emails]] and [[2021_Archive_Redo#Wikis_and_docs|fixing the many issues with mediawiki]] (sometimes with [https://docs.ystv.co.uk/wiki/Media_Wiki much anger]).
While you may find him nestled in a fist fight, mid computing meeting, his actual role is [[Heads of Archives|Head of Archives]], where he dedicates his life towards [[2021_Archive_Redo#Archive_meetings_and_libraries|ignoring emails]] and [[2021_Archive_Redo#Wikis_and_docs|fixing the many issues with mediawiki]] (sometimes with an excess of [https://docs.ystv.co.uk/wiki/Media_Wiki anger and fear]). His entire speech for Head of Archives is reproduced below verbatim:
 
<blockquote>I want to be Head of Archives.</blockquote>
 
His resignation speech is reproduced below, exactly as delivered:
 
<blockquote>I no longer want to be Head of Archives.</blockquote>
 
= Preferences =
* 1.5 scoops of Nescafe instant coffee, 5g creatine, 3 seconds of double cream and a pinch of salt
* Unity Ubuntu, no snappy
* <0.5mm tip pens
* The crane position, as opposed to the fetal
* [https://youtu.be/6pVaK7O35ic 24 hour exams]
* [https://youtu.be/NgkC4WIhNQY 24]
* Running systemd (un)ironically whilst saying "Yeah bro, I'm about minimalism and bloat-free software"