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+# Redpill for decision makers
+
+Redpill is the opposite of outsourcing: As much as possible of your precious
+data and infrastructure in kept in-house, and the rest uses only simple and
+generic services to avoid depending on unique features of a single provider.
+
+An "ICT guide" is hired part-time to help setup your resources as
+self-sustainable as possible, and to train one or more of your own staff to
+work with the system on a day-to-day basis.
+
+When the setup is completed, smaller tasks like restarting services or
+adding/changing user accounts can be done by the "superusers" among your staff.
+Beyond that, your network can in principle run on its own. In reality you are
+recommended to keep your ICT guide in the loop as a technical advisor,
+continuously checking security and optimize/improve/extend services.
+
+You keep your ICT guide only for as long as the relationship is mutually
+beneficial: Your data, services and know-how stays with you. Your system keeps
+running, it just slowly becomes "oldfashioned". And you can take in other ICT
+guides or ordinary technicians - all code is Free Software, tied to the Debian
+GNU/Linux distribution with one of the largest userbases worldwide and favoured
+especially amongst skilled networks administrators.
+
+## More info
+
+ * Daily [[use]]
+ * Technical [[overview|admin]]