League of Professional System Administrators -

Get paid $10 to be a LOPSA member by attending LISA

wbilancio — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:54:38 -0700

USENIX and LOPSA have partnered to provide LOPSA members a $45 discount to the USENIX LISA 2010 conference. To take advantage of the discount, enter the code into the Discount code field on the LISA'10 registration form.

Throughout LISA registration, LOPSA will be offering a promotional membership rate of $35/year for new members or renewals. When you account for the LISA discount, this means if you become a member now, and attend LISA, you'll be getting paid $10 to attend your favorite System Administration conference, which should help you sell it to those who have to approve purchases.

LISA'10 is being held in San Jose, CA during the week of November 7–12, 2010.

The LISA conference is sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with LOPSA and other organizations.

LINUX USERS LINING UP FOR PRO SYSADMIN TRAINING AT OHIO LINUX FEST

wbilancio — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:14:10 -0700

LOPSA is offering the following classes at OLFU in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, September 10th

* IPv6 essentials and deployment Strategies
* Black Magic: Linux Troubleshooting and System Administration
* Application Acceleration and Tiered Storage and Archiving
* Monitoring and Nagios
* Introduction to Automating System Administration with Cfengine
* Data Centers: Planning, Expanding, Managing

A full class schedule can be found at http://www.ohiolinux.org/olfu.html

LOPSA instructors return for the fourth year to Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, Ohio on Friday September

LOPSA-NJ - iSCSI SANs Don't Have To Suck and Data Structures from the Future

wbilancio — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:44:59 -0700

Start: 2010-09-02 19:00

End: 2010-09-02 21:00

Timezone: US/Eastern

Date: Thursday September 2nd 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 7:20 PM - Social Time
7:20 PM - 7:30 PM - LOPSA-NJ Business and Announcements
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Main Presentation

This month we have two speakers and two different talks. Both speakers have had there talks accepted by LISA and have agreed to have them heard first here at LOPSA-NJ.

Derek will give a dress rehearsal for his LISA talk, described below:

"iSCSI SANs Don't Have To Suck"

We have created a iSCSI SAN architecture which permits maintenance of network components without any downtime, thus improving our ability to maintain the SAN beyond iSCSI's mediocre reputation. During development of this architecture we learned three important lessons, which have enabled us to create an architecture that allows for stability, as well as zero-downtime upgrades and maintenance.

LOPSA Live July 2010 Transcript

pckizer — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:12:38 -0700

Attached is the transcript of the July 2010 LOPSA Live! session. This session includes thanks to Moose, Sysadmin Day and events, upcoming Board activities, OLF/OLFu, Seattle Area conference in the formative stages needing volunteers, the Mentoring Program, LISA coming up, and work beginning on the next Salary Survey. The long meeting was called to an end and the channel left open for a longer public discussion afterward on unprofessional behaviour in our public forums that is included separately as well. As always, volunteers are needed for most if not all of the above, contact us if you want to help out at board@lopsa.org.

July 2010 LOPSAgram

lois — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 15:15:28 -0700

July 2010 LOPSAgram

Please email board@lopsa.org with any questions, comments, or ideas. We always want to hear from our membership.

In this memo:

1.   Tom Perrine will chair the Leadership Committee
2.   LOPSA Live --- Thursday, July 29th
3.   Sysadmin Appreciation Day Events and announcements
3a. SPECIAL Membership Offer 40% off - JOIN or RENEW Friday-Sunday!
3b. SysAdmin Day Meetup in NYC
3c. SysAdmin Appreciation Party in San Francisco
3d. SysAdmin Appreciation Day Contest --- Win an iPad!
3e. OpenDNS Announces SysAdmin Award Winners
4.   Special thanks to Trey Harris
5.   Mentorship program moves forward.
6.   LOPSA will be offering 6 Classes at OLFU in September
7.   LISA 2010: Consider submitting a Poster or a WIP
8.   Computing Now article on the Emergence of the IT Discipline
9.   Thanks to all of our LOPSA sponsors!
10. Comments or suggestions?

LOPSA Live May 2010 Transcript

pckizer — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:15:10 -0700

Attached is the transcript of the May 2010 LOPSA Live session. This session includes after PICC comments, LOPSA Mentorship Program, position changes for Trey and Travis, and calls for volunteers, most specifically for OLFU, mentoring and the newly open positions).

Congratulations, LOPSA-NJ for a great conference!

dparter — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:13:30 -0700

The LOPSA Board congratulates LOPSA-NJ on the success of the LOSPA-NJ Professional IT Community Conference (PICC '10), May 7-8 2010 in New Brunswick, NJ. We also thank and commend the Conference Chair, William Bilancio, the PICC '10 Organizing Committee, the speakers and volunteers for their dedication and hard work, which was reflected in the quality of the conference and value to all participants. You have built a solid foundation for future PICC conferences, and served the community well.

More information on PICC '10 is online at http://lopsanj.org/events/picc10/

Mentorship with LOPSA

lois — Sat, 08 May 2010 07:18:51 -0700

LOPSA is working on a mentorship program, and we need your help!

Following up on the great keynote by Tom Limoncelli at the PICC conference someone mentioned the need for mentoring and there was a clear interest in the room of people to be mentors and be mentored. This page is a place holder for the development of this idea.

Please email volunteers@lopsa.org with your interest both as being a mentor, finding a mentor, helping us develop a mentorship program to make introductions of people, or any combination of those.

Watch this page for more information coming soon.

LOPSA freenode IRC cloaks now available!

jessetrucks — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:05:41 -0800

LOPSA is now making LOPSA group IRC cloaks available on freenode!

All current members in good standing and sponsor representatives may qualify for a LOPSA group cloak. To be eligible for a LOPSA group cloak, the LOPSA membership or sponsorship must be current, and the individual's freenode network account must be set up according to the freenode network cloaking rules, which are found at:

http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup

LOPSA Live! IRC chat with the board and community for 2009/December/9 @ 4PM US/Eastern

pckizer — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:04:06 -0800

Start: 2009-12-09 16:00

End: 2009-12-09 17:00

Timezone: US/Eastern

Chat with the Board and community about anything LOPSA on the #lopsa-live IRC channel. 2009/December/9 @ 4PM US/Eastern.

(LOPSA IRC instructions and information)

Member Benefit: Health, Life, Disability, and Long Term Care Insurance

hcoyote — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:34:42 -0800

LOPSA is now offering all of its members the opportunity to receive savings of up to 40% on health insurance, life insurance, long-term care insurance and more!

All members who participate in the program will receive special premium rates and enhanced insurance coverage for yourself, your family, or your company. These benefits can extend to part-time and full-time employees of companies.

We are pleased to offer significant association value to our members on programs including:

Health Insurance for Groups and Individuals
Life Insurance
Long-Term Care Insurance

Luke S. Crawford wins 2009 Chuck Yerkes Award

trey — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:56:59 -0800

The Chuck Yerkes Award is presented annually in recognition of outstanding individual contributions in online forums over the past year. It was created after Chuck Yerkes' untimely death in 2004 to memorialize the mentorship he provided countless system administrators through his helpful and accurate posts to system administration mailing lists. Each year, an awards committee selects someone who followed Chuck's example in the prior year in their contributions to system administration online forums—whether mailing lists, web forums, or chat rooms.

The LOPSA awards committee presents the 2009 Chuck Yerkes Award to Luke S. Crawford. Luke's writing has shown the patience, insight, and helpfulness that we should all strive to emulate in providing mentorship online.

LOPSA is pleased to present this award and congratulates Luke on this recognition from the community.

LOPSA-NJ: December Meeting Pre-holiday post-LISA party, and earth-shattering announcement!

wbilancio — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:13:55 -0800

Start: 2009-12-03 19:00

End: 2009-12-03 21:00

Timezone: US/Eastern

LOPSA-NJ: December Meeting Pre-holiday post-LISA party, and earth-shattering announcement! With special invited guests.

Date: Thursday Dec 3rd 2009
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Agenda:
7:00 - 8:00: Pre-holiday Party! Bring a simple not-messy food/snack to share, talk about what you learned at LISA, or what you missed f you didn't go. If you'd like to geek out, bring your favorite screen saver on a thumb drive.

8:00 - 8:15: Earth-shattering ANNOUNCEMENT
8:15 - 8:45: Participatory Activity with Special Guests
8:45 - 9:00: Summary and Future Plans
9:00 - ?: Departure for LOPSA After Dark optional session

The Ohio LinuxFest Needs LOPSA Love -- Please Help!

moose — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:49:44 -0700

The seventh Ohio LinuxFest is happening very soon, September 25-27, 2009, in scenic Downtown Columbus, Ohio. This will be the third year that LOPSA will offer classes in partnership with OLF.

I'm a proud and active member of LOPSA but I'm also an organizer of the Ohio LinuxFest. Wearing my OLF hat I'd like to beg you FOR HELP!

We need to get the word out about OLF. It's kinda last minute, sure, but our registration numbers are horrifically off. Is it the economy? Did we miss crucial marketing? Are people preferring to visit the G20 conference in Pittsburgh? Is it a health care crisis conspiracy? Space aliens?! I don't know!!

LOPSA Live! IRC chat with the board and community for 2009/September/16 @ 4PM US/Eastern

pckizer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:28:27 -0700

Start: 2009-09-16 16:00

End: 2009-09-16 17:00

Timezone: US/Eastern

Chat with the Board and community about anything LOPSA on the #lopsa-live IRC channel. 2009/September/16 @ 4PM US/Eastern.

(LOPSA IRC instructions and information)