Join your local DefCon group and become part of that community. Ask there.
For Linux administration, I have a list of beginner projects:
https://blog.jdpfu.com/2010/12/10/li...n-ideas-needed - there's about 50 ideas there. If you get a book for almost any Linux Certification program, there are lots and lots of "projects" to learn. I have the
LPI Linux Cert book from O'Reilly. Plenty in there.
But the list is almost endless. Setup a vpn - use at least 3 different VPN tools with 1 being a mesh VPN. Connect your tablet, phone, Windows and Linux computers to the VPN. Setup different network zones for VPN access - limit different users to those different zones.
Setup centralized LDAP authentication for Linux. Don't use MS-AD or any php webapps.
Setup print servers that are automatically discovered by Windows and Linux. Make the Windows drivers automatically installed.
Do you have a media center, music server, read-it-later server, wiki server, corporate document management or file replication tool (seafile, owncloud, nextcloud). Do you have an email server for sending and receiving internet email? A reverse proxy? A VoIP server?
Setup a backup server that "pulls" backups from all the clients on the network. Why are "pulled" backups required? Don't use any file sharing protocol like CIFS or NFS or AFS or DFS for this solution. Restore a system from your backups, to the state it was last month.
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