From rnovak at indyramp.com Wed Nov 2 16:53:26 2011 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:53:26 -0700 Subject: LISA discounts for BayLISA folks Message-ID: Hi all, If you're interested in a discount for LISA '11 in Boston, and have not paid for your registration yet, get in touch with me ASAP. USENIX has offered to extend a discount to BayLISA folks, but I need to provide them with a list of names. Please send your name and email address (in the body of an email) to me if you would like a discount. I will reply after I hear back from them, if we get enough people interested. Thanks, Robert Novak BayLISA Secretary/Cheerleader -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lgj at usenix.org Thu Nov 10 11:57:14 2011 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:57:14 -0800 Subject: USENIX LISA '11 Early Bird Registration Deadline Approaching Message-ID: <6026CAEA-58B9-44BC-986E-A93A56AFADBC@usenix.org> Don't miss out! Maximize your savings by registering by Monday, November 14! The LISA '11 Early Bird Registration Deadline is almost here! LISA '11 is shaping up to be one of the best yet. In addition to the new content, take a look at a few of the reasons to attend: 1. Mingle with World-Renowned Experts! Network with peers and luminaries in the workshops, "Hallway Track," Vendor Exhibition, and evening activities: -- http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/workshops.html -- http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/exhibition.html -- http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/activities.html 2. Top-Notch Training LISA '11 is the place to be for DevOps and Linux system administration! Highly respected experts provide you with new information and skills you can take back to work tomorrow including: -- Nan Liu on Puppet -- Mark Burgess on Configuration Management Solutions with CFEngine 3 -- Shumon Huque on Using and Migrating to IPv6 Take anywhere from 1 to 6 full days of training and create the curriculum that meets your needs. The full training program can be found at http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/training/ We're again offering series of classes focusing on some of the most important topics you'll encounter including Virtualization, Linux Security and Administration, and SuperSysadmin: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/training/tutseries.html 3. Invited Talks Key members of the community discuss timely and important topics such as: -- Keynote Address: "The DevOps Transformation," by Ben Rockwood, Joyent -- Closing Session: "What Is Watson?," by Michael P. Perrone, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center -- "Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies," by Susan Landau, Harvard University -- "One Size Does Not Fit All in DB Systems," Andy Palmer, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research See the entire program at http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/tech/ 4. You'll Hear It Here First Cutting-edge practices and new or developing work are presented in the paper presentations, practice and experience reports, and the poster sessions. Note: Poster submissions are due by November 11, 2011. Submitting a poster is a great way to let other people know about your work and to meet other people who are interested in the same issues. Find out more at: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/activities.html#poster 5. Get Answers to Your Toughest Questions in the Guru Is In Sessions Topics include: -- Cloud Computing and *aaS by David Nalley, CloudStack -- IPv6 by Owen DeLong, Hurricane Electric -- Security by Matt Disney, Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- And more . . . ========= For complete program information and to register, see: http://www.usenix.org/lisa11/progb * Additional discounts are available! -- Registration: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/discounts.html -- Airfare and hotel: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/hotel.html * Help us promote! -- Banners and buttons: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/promote.html -- Facebook: http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa11/facebook -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/LISAConference #LISA11 We're pleased to bring LISA to Boston, MA, and we look forward to seeing you there. On behalf of the LISA '11 Program Committee, Thomas A. Limoncelli, Google, Inc. Doug Hughes, D. E. Shaw Research, LLC LISA '11 Program Co-Chairs lisa11chairs at usenix.org ----------------------------------------------------------- LISA '11: 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference December 4-9, 2011, Boston, MA Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with LOPSA Early Bird Registration Deadline: November 14, 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------- From rnovak at indyramp.com Tue Nov 15 19:32:06 2011 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:32:06 -0800 Subject: BayLISA meeting Thursday 11/17 - Message Systems and Board Elections - Sponsored by Dice Message-ID: Hi all, Here's a friendly reminder of the upcoming BayLISA meeting this Thursday, November 17, at 7:30pm. 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://www.meetup.com/BayLISA/events/35111932/ ) so we can arrange for refreshments and ensure enough space. Joining us will be Alec Peterson, CTO of Message Systems, talking about the Message Systems "Momentum" platform and mass email processing. We also want to thank Dice.com for sponsoring the November meeting. Before the presentation begins, we'll have the annual BayLISA board elections. All current members (including anyone joining before the meeting on Thursday) are eligible to vote for members of the board. Members serve 2-year terms, and with a number of board members stepping down after the current term expires, we welcome any interested attendees who want to help grow the organization over the next two years. It's likely to be a very different board and we hope this will be a good thing. I've written a bit at http://rsts11.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/baylisa-approaching-21-year/ about the organization and getting involved with the board, but in short, here's what's involved: * 1-2 hours a week including outreach, meetings, coordinating speakers/sponsors, etc. You can do more, and you don't have to do two hours every week, but if we had 7 people each putting 90 minutes a week in, we'd have some amazing results. * Be a visible and welcoming representative of BayLISA. Help us spread the word, make new contacts, and respond to members. * Help run a meeting twice a year. * Get BayLISA membership for free while you're on the board. You do *not* have to be a paying member of BayLISA to be on the board. We just ask that you've attended meetings before (preferably) and have the commitment and capacity to help make BayLISA grow and improve. If you're interested in becoming a part of the BayLISA board, get in touch with me so we can get you on the ballot. Hope to see you all there. Thanks, Robert Novak BayLISA Secretary/Cheerleader From rnovak at indyramp.com Mon Nov 28 14:53:17 2011 From: rnovak at indyramp.com (Robert Novak) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:53:17 -0800 Subject: Ring in ZFS's 10th birthday with Joyent/Illumos Message-ID: The Illumos user group is celebrating 10 years of ZFS at their meetup this month in Menlo Park. Joyent, who co-coordinate this group, supported the Dynamic Tracing talk at BayLISA earlier this year, and ZFS is going pretty strong in FreeBSD and Solaris and their variants. January's meeting will feature a report from Matt Ahrens of the ZFS Working > Group about what's new and what's coming in ZFS, with time for discussion > about other topics of interest to the community. Details/RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/illumos-User-Group/events/41665962/ If you're inclined toward Solaris or its variants/branches, FreeBSD, FreeNAS, and so forth... please join our friends from Joyent and Illumos at this meetup. 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