In this memo:
1. LOPSA Live Thursday 03/06 at 4PM EDT
2. New Website Look
3. Thank you to Greg Rose
4. Local Chapters Update
5. Sponsor Thank-yous
1. LOPSA Live Thursday 03/06 at 4PM EDT
LOPSA Live is a chance for members of LOPSA to interact directly
with members of the Board. You can ask questions, make suggestions
and give feedback in a smaller, "focus group" online chat.
Join us on IRC in the channel #lopsa-live at irc.lopsa.org from
4-5 EDT on Thursday, March 6th to talk about anything and
everything LOPSA.
This time around we are back to a slightly earlier time. We like
to move the timing around to ensure that people with scheduling
conflicts will be able to participate eventually.
Please let us know if you have questions about LOPSA Live.
2. LOPSA Website Facelift
The LOPSA website has undergone a visual facelift; the new design
refreshes the original website that we put up at LOPSA's founding
in 2005. We hope that the new site will be easier to read and
use in the coming weeks, and then we can focus on more regular
articles and useful things.
In the coming weeks, look for more improvements to the website,
as we reorganize menus to make sections easier to find, and make
it easier to submit articles and create blogs of your own. If
you have any suggestions, please let us know.
3. Thank you to Greg Rose
Greg Rose has recently decided to resign his seat on the Leadership
Committee. We wanted to take this opportunity to send our appreciation
for Greg's critical role in the founding of LOPSA.
Greg was the inaugural chair of the Leadership Committee, which meant
he was at the forefront of recruiting the initial Board of Directors
of LOPSA. Further, he served as a welcome voice of calm fairness
during some of the turbulent times that surrounded LOPSA's founding.
Without his efforts, LOPSA would be a different, lesser and possibly
nonexistent organization today.
While Greg will be certainly around in the world of LOPSA, it never
can hurt to signal our appreciation for his efforts now at the end
of his formal role on our Leadership Committee. We're deeply
appreciative of our Founding Member #1, and just wanted to signal
that here in a public space. Deepest thanks on behalf of the Board
and all of LOPSA.
4. Local Chapters Update
We've recently heard from folks who are interested in establishing
local LOPSA chapters in Indianapolis, Scranton/Wilkes Barre, and
New York City. If you live in one of those regions and are
interested in being part of a LOPSA Local Chapter, please send
us email and we'll direct you to the right corners.
In addition, our current locals remain active; LOPSA-NJ has a meeting
on March 6th entitled "Monitoring: Why does it always suck, and what
can we do about it?" at the Lawrence Headquarters Branch of the Mercer
County Library. All are welcome to attend.
For more about LOPSA Local Chapters, please see
http://lopsa.org/localprogram
5. Thanks to all of our LOPSA sponsors!
We'd like to thank our sponsors.
Thanks go to individual sponsors Darrell Holman (individual) and
Doug Hughes (platinum). We're deeply grateful for their continuing
support of LOPSA.
This message, our website and all our online content is brought to you
by BitPusher, our Gold Corporate Sponsor. BitPusher is the San
Francisco Bay Area's premier provider of managed information technology
services for small and medium-sized businesses. We thank them for their
continued, high level of professional support.
See more about BitPusher at http://www.bitpusher.com
Thanks also go out to our Platinum sposor Dasher Technologies. Dasher
Technologies is an enterprise IT reseller offering a wide range of
computing infrastructure solutions. They provide HP rack and blade
servers, storage, networking, workstations, and software, along with
many complementary software solutions. Dasher is the #3 provider of HP
blade servers in the US and #1 in Northern California.
See more about Dasher at http://www.dashertechnologies.com
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