LISA'10 is over and there are stories to tell. There is a new program started up with LOPSA and the training sessions were great. The hallway track was quite good although this year it suffered a bit from the incessant tweeting that was going on. It’s hard to make progress on something when the pop-up indicator on your screen is (almost) constantly lighting up with a new comment.

There are two additional conferences happening in 2011. PICC in New Jersey and the Cascadia IT Conference in Seattle. These are sponsored by sysadmin groups, like the LOPSA-NJ chapter and the Seattle Area System Administrators Guild there is obviously an audience for these conferences, so if you have the time and inclination, check it out and possibly attend. I have also been informed that BSDCan will be going ahead this year, with the older format of two days of tutorials and two days of presentations, the second being on a Saturday. I’m the volunteer coordinator again, so if you want to assist in the setup, let me know.

Title - November Meeting
Location - The Pythian Group
Link out - Click here
Description - Post LISA'10 meeting.

Note that this is NOT the Third Thursday of November!

I’ll be talking about the conference and some of the more oddball things I have been up to recently. Monitoring will be part of the topic and automated reports that have funky graphs.
Start Time - 19:00
Date - 2010-11-25
End Time - 21:30

I’m going to add a few eBooks (PDF at the moment) to the downloads section. These are GFDL or marketing papers, so I don’t see an issue. They may have some value to you, so feel free to download and have a look.

LISA ‘10 starts next Sunday. That should be a lot of fun and a lot of late nights and early mornings. It’s certainly a busy conference and there is so much to do/see/attend. I’m hoping to at least make a few tweets during the day and maybe even a few blog entries in the evenings between sessions. I’m not sure how well I’ll do, but if I don’t actually post it here, I’ll probably not bother. This way I feel some obligation to pass on info.

We had a few things to discuss at the last meeting, but no serious technical talk. I promised to post a couple of links so here we go…

First item on the table was anyone who has tried to get the email server running and failed AND still wants to get it working, send me an email off-list and I’ll get together with you to get it done. Serious requests only :)

We now have a group on LinkedIn, so if you are a LinkedIn member, sign up!

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3592991

This may help promote the group at a professional level. Thanks for the idea Jim!