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As you know, LOPSA's website was a wee bit outdated (actually very outdated). After looking at our options, the board decided to go with a hosting provider (Wild Apricot) that specializes in hosting websites for non-profits like LOPSA. This will enable us to focus on providing services to the community instead of trying to figure out what to do about the website. After much work, LOPSA's new website went live at LISA 2015. After several startup issues with our cert, it is now completely secure. The new site has much better member management tools, is supported on phones, and is much easier to maintain. If you have not already checked it out, please go to https://lopsa.org and login to see all the content. Please email board@lopsa.org with any idea you have to improve the website.
3. LOPSA-East - Call for proposals
The organizers of the LOPSA-East Professional IT Community Conference invite you to submit proposals for presentations at LOPSA-EAST ’16.
LOPSA-EAST ’16 aims to bring together IT professionals from all walks of life in the Mid-Atlantic region and beyond to share war stories, learn for each other’s experiences, and network with industry peers. The conference includes acclaimed speakers and keynotes, expert-lead training designed to build the skillsets and confidence of attendees, lightning talks, and a “Birds of a Feather” track where attendees propose and host their own topics during the event.
Attendance for this year’s conference is expected to be between 200 and 250 IT professionals from companies large and small, local government, and academia. Our attendees are primarily from the Mid-Atlantic region including New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC. As IT professionals we go by many titles but everyone is invited: system administrators, network administrators, network engineers, Windows, Linux, Unix, DBAs, security professionals, technical managers, and beyond.
This year’s conference is going to be focused on developing scalable infrastructures through industry best practices, the implementation of cutting edge technologies, a deeper level understanding of the core concepts that enable our work, and ensuring continued operational efficiencies. LOPSA-EAST is OS-agnostic and welcomes presentations on any operating systems whether it be Windows, Linux, Unix, etc.
All presentations should be focused on issues important to our technical community and speakers should assume that members of the audience have at least some industry experience.
Dates and Deadlines
- Deadline for all Submissions – January 13, 2016
- Decisions and Notifications to All Submitters – January 27, 2016
- Schedule Published – February 1, 2016
- Registration Opens – February 15, 2016
- LOPSA-East ’16 Conference – May 6 -7, 2016
For the full CFP go to http://lopsaeast.org/2016/call-for-participation/
4. LOPSA Cascadia - Call for proposals
MARCH 11-12, 2016, SEATTLE, WA
We invite you to present a talk or Training at the 2016 LOPSA Cascadia IT Conference in Seattle.
LOPSA Cascadia is a gathering of professionals from the diverse IT community in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. We gather to learn from each other, share ideas, and meet new friends. Whether you are paid to work with computers or just like to experiment with technology, your time is well spent at LOPSA Cascadia.
The conference includes presentations, invited speakers and keynote talks, as well as Trainings by top-notch experts. We expect attendance of 100-125 people from the IT community, businesses, and academic institutions in and around Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia.
PRESENTATION TOPICS
Presentations must relate to using and managing computers, information infrastructure, and/or supporting people who use computer infrastructure. This can be anything from describing how to setup an enterprise quality web service infrastructure to how to manage your relationship with your Internet service provider.
You may submit as many proposals as you like. The conference committee will select proposals which are submitted with full information and those that we think will most benefit the IT community as a whole.
EXAMPLE TOPICS:
* Description of a problem solved and how you worked through it.
* Demonstration of a specific technology stack and how it works for your
environment.
* Show how non-technical skills were to solve technical problems.
* How you developed your career and how others can benefit from your
experience.
* Expert tips on how to use an application or tool such as vim, tmux, or
PowerShell.
TOPICS EXPLICITLY DISCOURAGED:
* Sales Presentations
* Vendor Product Demonstrations
* Proposals or Vaporware (Although works in progress are appropriate for lightning talks)
EXAMPLES OF GOOD PROPOSALS AND TOPICS:
* An author of an open-source package explains the project, the benefits and how it works.
* A system administrator presents about a new technique, software system, or device he or she created.
* Someone with recent experience in particular technology presents "10 things I wish I knew before I started with [name of product]".
* A Windows engineer describes how they manage their fleet of desktops/laptops.
* "How we manage [Linux/Mac OS X/BeOS] in an Active Directory domain."
* "How to Make Wireless Work in a Conference Setting."
* "Incident Command for IT: What We Can Learn from the Fire Department."
* "Deploying your Application to Cloud: Lessons Learned from Five Different Applications."
* "What System Administrators Can Learn From [other industry]."
* "A Few Thoughts on Uptime: Resisting Entropy."
PRESENTATION FORMAT
We are actively seeking proposals for talks and Trainings at LOPSA Cascadia.
* Talks: 45 minute presentation including Q&A.
* Trainings: half-day, 4-hour sessions. ("Full day" Trainings may be submitted as two half-day Trainings without the assumption that they will both be accepted.)
* Lightning Talk signups will be available during the conference.
SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL
Everyone is welcome to present! Public speaking experience is not required. Complete the Proposal form.
TALK PROPOSALS:
Talks are a relatively short 45 minute presentations that are designed to inform participants about a specific topic or subject. Presenters will have access to an overhead projector and may not require participants to bring any materials.
TRAINING PROPOSALS:
Trainings are half-day deep technical presentations that are designed to teach participants somthing. Presenters will have access to an overhead projector and may require participants to bring laptops, notepads, or other equipment.
LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning talks are very short, 5 minute, presentations designed to spark interest or call to action. Lightning talks do not have access to overhead projectors or any other equipment.
Lightning talk registration will be available at the welcome desk during the reception.
DATES AND DEADLINES
* 15 December - Proposals due
* 1 January - Schedule Published
* 11-12 March - Conference
CONTACT AND QUESTIONS
Please see: more information on LOPSA Cascadia and presenting at this great event.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email the organizers at: submissions@casitconf.org
5. Thank you to our Sponsors
We'd like to thank our sponsors. We're deeply grateful for their continuing support of LOPSA. More information on how to become a sponsor.
Thanks to our individual sponsors:
Platinum: Jennine Townsend, Dan Rich
Gold: Ski Kacoroski
Silver: Matt Disney, Lee Damon, Scott Murphy, Ian Viemeister
Bronze: Gary Studwell
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5. Comments or suggestions?
As we close out this month's LOPSAgram, we want to make sure we're giving you the information you want or need. If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to send them to communications@lopsa.org
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