League of Professional System Administrators - Updates

ACM CHIMIT 2008 Symposium

doug — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:22:59 -0800

Start: 2008-11-14 21:00

End: 2008-11-15 17:00

Timezone: US/Pacific

CHIMIT 2008 - INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE

ACM 2008 Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of
Information Technology

November 14/15 2008

San Diego, California, USA
http://www.chimit08.org/

You are invited to contribute original work to CHIMIT 2008, the 2008 ACM
Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information
Technology.

Started in 2007, the ACM CHIMIT Symposium is the leading forum for
discussing topics on IT management with a focus on people, business, and
technology.

LOPSA servers down for planned maintenance this Thursday

doug — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:12:55 -0700

Start: 2007-09-13 18:50

End: 2007-09-13 19:30

Timezone: US/Pacific

LOPSA web servers and email will be down Thursday, September 14 18:50 to 19:30 PDT (40 minutes). See below for details and other time zones.

To all BitPusher customers,

Our data center has informed us that they need to do maintenance on the power system in the next few days in order to prevent an unscheduled outage in the future. They have schedule an outage which will require us to take down all services based in our main (Seattle) data center.

The time during which BitPusher customer services will be down is (in PDT --
see below for other time zones): Thursday, September 14 18:50 to 19:30 (40 minutes)

ServersCheck discount for members!

paw — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:38:57 -0700

Thanks to ServersCheck, who as a token of appreciation for the hard work performed by System Administrators around the world, is pleased offer LOPSA members a 10% discount in our online store on our Monitoring Software and environmental sensors. Details are on the Member Discounts page.

System Administration Appreciation Day

doug — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:29:10 -0700

Start: 2007-07-27 00:00

End: 2007-07-27 23:59

Timezone: Etc/GMT

Friday, July 27th, 2007, is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication. Use the handy links on http://www.lopsa.org to ThinkGeek or Amazon and help out LOPSA at the same time!

LOPSA board elections

doug — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:28:04 -0700

Start: 2007-06-16 09:00

End: 2007-06-25 17:00

Timezone: US/Eastern

The LOPSA Board election is the time to make your voice heard about how our organization is run.

Please take the time to examine the candidate's statements. Learn more about them by asking questions on the LOPSA-Discuss list discuss@lopsa.org, please put [ELECTION] in the subject header of all election-related messages). Talk with many of the candidates in the upcoming IRC chat (details coming soon).

Once you have made your choices, you can submit your vote at https://secure.grephead.com/lopsavote. To vote you will need to login using your lopsa.org username and password.

LOPSA adds professional and liability insurance as member benefit

doug — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:37:55 -0700

MIMS International offers Professional Liability (PROinsure) at a group rate to LOPSA members on professional errors & omissions insurance. MIMS also offers Professional Business Owners Package (PRObop) to LOPSA members as a complete business owners insurance package. Under this program you can obtain coverage for building and business personal property; fire legal liability; computers and media; money and securities; business income and extra expense; business personal property off premises and in transit; umbrella/excess liability; business/general liability; business auto; and workers' compensation.

Lopsa live

doug — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:42:03 -0700

Start: 2007-03-28 17:00

End: 2007-03-28 18:00

Timezone: US/Eastern

The next LOPSA Live is in #lopsa-live in irc.lopsa.org on Wednesday at 5-6PM Eastern time. Come give your feedback to the board. Your feedback tells us how we're doing.

March 2007 memo to members

doug — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:27:56 -0700

In this memo:

Member privacy option available
LOPSA teams with Sysadmin Magazine
Jon Cellini wins 4th quarter member drawing
JobTarget
Volunteer!
Welcome, Ottawa Valley SAGE
March #lopsa-live
Sysadmin Days coming this summer
Sponsor Thank-yous

November 2006 Memo to Members

doug — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 15:13:31 -0800

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

In this memo:

1. Happy Birthday, LOPSA
2. New Founding Member appointed
3. How are we doing? (survey)
4. Phoenix Sysadmin Days
5. Annual Member Meeting
6. New Chapter!
7. LOPSA's LISA plans
8. Tool Catalog needs your input
9. Calendar, jobs board at your service
10. Sponsor Thank-yous

SCALE 5X

doug — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:34:42 -0700

Start: 2006-02-10 09:00

End: 2006-02-11 17:00

Timezone: US/Pacific

http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/

Bigger and Badder! The Fifth Annual Southern California Linux Expo is coming! It will be February 10-11, 2007, at The Westin Los Angeles Airport. Due to year over year growth, we've moved the Expo to a new location which will allow us to expand. We’ll have more speaker tracks, and more tutorials designed to show users of all skill levels what Open Source can do. And SCALE 5x will offer more booth space for those interested in showing how they have made Open Source work for them.

SCALE Speakers to date:

Open Source Licenses; A Review with Corner Cases - Chris Dibona
Using Xen: Concepts and Application of Virtualizing Systems - Erin Quill and Ted Haeger
Wireless Tools in Linux - Dennis Rex
The Latest In Open Source Business Applications - David Uhlman

DPS 2007 Call for Presentations

doug — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:43:44 -0700

Start: 2006-10-31 22:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT+7

Data Protection Summit

Hilton Irvine/Orange County Airport, Irvine, CA

March 13-15, 2007

TechReach International Simulation Day

brent — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:33:33 -0700

Start: 2006-09-19 12:30

End: 2006-09-19 18:30

Timezone: US/Pacific

see http://lopsa.org/TechReach2006, http://www.techri.org/

Sysadmin Tools

doug — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:49:56 -0700

Do you have a favorite set of tools? Consider augmenting our Tools database. We hope to build a comprehensive listing of tools by category covering the gamut of system and network administration. This shall be a public work to benefit all and should allow browsing by category and searching. The list is sparse at the moment, but it will grow over time through community contributions. If you have any issues adding or updating tools, please email toolsadmin@lopsa.org. This is a work in progress and feedback to lopsa-tools@lopsa.org is welcome. Features for this area are still being expanded. Click here to add a new tool. The list of current tools can be seen at lopsa.org/Tools or by clicking on Content on the left and then Tools.

In the Trenches

doug — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:41:11 -0700

At LOPSA we're always on the lookout for some uniquely sysadmin content, especially if our members have created it. Here is one such item. Kevin Devin hosts an IT Podcast for and about System Administration with his co-host George Starcher. We also aggregate his RSS news feed In the Trenches.

click to hear the latest Podcast in his series.

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Pearson Discounts

doug — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:22:15 -0700

Pearson Education offers LOPSA members discounts ranging from 0-40% on titles from Que, Sams, Peachpit, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, New Riders, Cisco Press, and more.

Members can visit the http://lopsa.org/MemberDiscounts page for this and other discount information. Logged in members will see the discount information.