March 29, 2013Over the past five years, I've learned that IT conferences come in all shapes and sizes. On one extreme is VMworld, epic in scale, which takes up a sizable portion of the convention space in whatever city they decide to locate it in. At the other end of the spectrum are small conferences like Monitorama. [...]
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March 20, 2013I know that *I* love lightning talks. That's why I got really excited when I heard that the DC DevOps group had a meeting devoted to lightning talks in September...and I was also jealous, because that's a really great idea. I mentioned my idea after a recent BB-LISA meeting here in Boston, and people thought [...]
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February 14, 2013Just a quick note that, as of a couple of days ago, both Cascadia IT Conference and LOPSA-East have open registrations. Cascadia's Early-Bird discount ends February 28th, so if you're on the left coast, you need to check it out (and go see my boss, David Blank-Edelman, deliver the keynote!) LOPSA-East's Early-Bird discount ends April [...]
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January 24, 2013The West-coast LOPSA conference that everyone raves about is CascadiaIT, put on largely by the Seattle Area System Administrator Guild (or SASAG). This is its third year, and it's got a great looking line-up of tutorials: Root Cause Analysis (both beginner and intermediate classes) PowerShell Fundamentals Building Your PowerShell Toolkit An Introduction to Puppet An [...]
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December 10, 2012Just a quick update...yesterday was the first full day of training at LISA12, and I was in a couple of vCloud classes all day. You can get the write-up at the USENIX blog. I'm doing two classes a day, and there's a ton to write. I'm swamped, but in the best possible way. It's great! [...]
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December 5, 2012If you're going to LISA'12 (and hopefully you are), and you're going to have a little bit of time (and you're a member), LOPSA could use some help manning the booth. The signup is at Sign-Up Genius (which I didn't know about until now. It's awesome!). When you go there to sign up, you might [...]
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