BayLISA Update for December 2011 - Directors, Officers, and Demos (Oh My?)

Fri Dec 2 18:27:24 PST 2011

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