From rnovak at indyramp.com Fri Dec 2 18:27:24 2011 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 18:27:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: BayLISA Update for December 2011 - Directors, Officers, and Demos (Oh My?) Message-ID: Hi all, We have a refreshed board of directors, some new officer arrangements, and our ever-popular Short But Cool/short topics meeting coming in just over two weeks. You'll also find some quick notes at the end. We're always looking for your suggestions, about emails, meeting topics, member benefits, etc. Send them to blw at baylisa.org or just write back to me directly. (Don't need to group reply, of course.) ===> NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS Scott Strobele has joined the board of BayLISA. Re-elected for a two-year term were Rob Markovic, Rick Moen, Heather Stern, and Guy B. Purcell, joining Robert Novak who's in the middle of his two year term. We thank Robert Harker again for his service to BayLISA, and wish him well as he moves into leadership roles with other organizations. ===> NEW OFFICERS FOR BAYLISA At the BayLISA board meeting November 28, the board elected Robert Novak to serve as President and Secretary, and Guy B. Purcell to serve as Treasurer, for the next year. We are grateful for the service of Rob Markovic as President and Rick Moen as Treasurer for the past year, and look forward to their continued contributions to the organization. ===> DECEMBER SHORT-BUT-COOL-MEETING | BayLISA Short But Cool Meeting ft. PC-BSD 9 | | Thursday, December 15, 7:30pm | | LinkedIn, 2051 Stierlin, 94043 | | Details/RSVP at http://bit.ly/v8S7UI | Third, we are pleased to announce our twice-yearly Short But Cool meeting, a festival of pizza, beverages, live system administration demonstrations, and short talks that you'll be looking forward to trying out after you recover from New Year's Eve. We are welcoming short-topic speakers from LogicMonitor, a hosted monitoring solution that really rocks for hard-to-monitor problems, and CloudStack, an open source virtualization management platform for the leading hypervisors. We have room for one or two more short topics--10-15 minutes tops, preferably with a demonstration rather than a slide deck, something that's impressed you or made your sysadmin life easier recently, that you'd like to share with the rest of the group. I'm thinking about giving a demonstration of sysadmin stand-up comedy, but I'd really rather get something less painful in front of the group. Get in touch with me if you'd like to be on the schedule. James T Nixon III will be back with a "keynote" presentation on PC-BSD 9. You may remember James from June's Short But Cool FreeNAS 8 presentation; he's a fun and informative speaker who knows what he's talking about. Our friends at iXsystems will also be providing pizza and drinks for us, so be sure to RSVP so we don't run out. http://bit.ly/v8S7UI ===> BECOME A MEMBER OF BAYLISA Want to show your support for BayLISA and its efforts for the Bay Area sysadmin community? Become a member of BayLISA! http://bit.ly/keYnGQ It's $45/year for individuals, and may be tax-deductible as a business expense or expensable with your company to the extents permitted by the IRS and your employer, respectively. Full time students may join for only $15. We have corporate and sponsoring membership options available as well. In addition to supporting BayLISA, you'll get various tech discounts, early access to event videos in the future, extra chances in our drawings at monthly meetings, and other perks we're working on. You can either join online, or bring a filled-out membership form with cash or a personal check to the Treasurer at any BayLISA meeting. Forms are usually available from the Treasurer or Secretary on the spot as well. ==> OTHER SHORT NOTES The Illumos User Group is having a ZFS 10th Birthday event in Menlo Park this January. Check out the details on this January 10, 2012 event sponsored by Delphix and Joyent at http://bit.ly/vf6A0L Linux New Media, the folks behind Linux Pro Magazine and Admin Magazine, have a special deal for subscribing to both magazines in print form (with DVD/CD included), along with a Linux Shell Handbook special edition. We're working to get some copies to give out at an upcoming BayLISA meeting (an extra bonus to those of you who RSVP), but if you already know you want it, the deal is at http://bit.ly/u2JBhT (you can add digital copies for a few extra bucks if you like). If you're going to be in Boston this month, even if you're not at LISA itself, the Data Storage Day is free, brought to you by Cambridge Computer (the guys with the hat logo tee shirts). See details at http://bit.ly/vrjFL8 and you can sign up for a standalone DSD pass at http://bit.ly/s65g1T (not necessary if you signed up with your LISA registration). That's all for now. Hope to see you all at the next BayLISA meeting (less than two weeks to go!), and I wish you all a holiday break without oncall duty (I won't be so lucky). Robert Novak BayLISA President From rnovak at indyramp.com Tue Dec 13 09:45:51 2011 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:45:51 -0800 Subject: You're invited! BayLISA meeting Thursday 12/15 - LogicMonitor, CloudStack, Source Ninja, PC-BSD Message-ID: Greetings, friends of BayLISA. Here's a friendly reminder of the upcoming BayLISA meeting this Thursday, December 15, at 7:30pm. This month is our twice-yearly Short Topics (Short But Cool) meeting. We're welcoming friends from LogicMonitor (hosted monitoring solution), CloudStack (IaaS platform), and Source Ninja (open source patch/ bug/vulnerability management), as well as PC-BSD for the "keynote." iXsystems is graciously feeding our attendees. More details and speaker bios are at the Meetup site ( http://bit.ly/v8S7UI ). We're meeting at the usual location, LinkedIn's 2051 Stierlin Ct building in Mountain View. We appreciate the courtesy of our members and guests who RSVP through Meetup ( http://bit.ly/v8S7UI ) so we can arrange for refreshments and ensure enough space. It's looking to be a busy one this month, so please RSVP soon. We may outgrow our space this month, and we're working on larger meeting spaces at LinkedIn, so check the Meetup page before you head out, or follow the signs when you get there. Next month (January 19, 2012) we're pleased to welcome Mark Burgess of CFEngine.com to speak on "SysAdmin 3.0: The Infrastructure Engineer." Many of you may have seen Dr Burgess speak at LISA this month. This is a great opportunity to meet him in a smaller environment and see what he's seeing in our industry and ask your questions. Also looking to be a popular session--please RSVP through Meetup ( http://bit.ly/tP8BEw) if you plan to come. We have a 60-spot "limit" on Meetup, because if we get over that, we'll need to work on moving to another meeting space. If you get in after the 60 spots are filled, please sign up for the waiting list and check back. We'll update the site if we change location or space. Likewise, please update your RSVP if you discover you can't make it. We will do our best to safely accommodate drop-ins of course. HEY: Did you see someone at LISA, or run into someone at work, who you think would make an intriguing and beneficial presenter at a future BayLISA meeting? If so, please let me know. We have some people lined up and some on our wish list, but we want to make this the most useful group for all Bay Area sysadmins (and those of you from outside the Bay Area who might find yourselves out here on a third Thursday!). Thanks, and hope to see a few of you this Thursday... Robert Novak BayLISA President -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: