Celebrating System Administrator Appreciation Day 2012

At USENIX and LISA, our special interest group for sys admins, every day is System Administrator Appreciation Day. Still, we're excited to see the spotlight focused on our friends and colleagues who keep our systems up and running.

Would you like to win a FREE LISA '12 Tech Pass to give to your favorite sys admin? Or are you a sys admin who'd like to treat yourself to the free pass? Here's all you need to do:

 

By July 27, 2012 (9:00 p.m. PDT) respond to our @LISAConference twitter feed and tell us what you appreciate most about sys admins. One lucky respondent will get the Free LISA '12 tech pass either to use or to give to a friend or colleague.

You only have a little time left to buy the perfect gift for your sys admin, so allow me to make some helpful suggestions:

• LISA individual memberships are only $45 a year. Nothing tells a sys admin “I appreciate you” like a membership to the USENIX special interest group for sys admins, unless it's a ...

• … membership to USENIX and LISA, or a …

• … LOPSA membership, which happens to be only $35 this week.

Of course, you can't go wrong by sending your sys admin to LISA '12 in San Diego. Just imagine the look on your admin's face when she opens her Sys Admin Day card (after she has polished off her Sys Admin Day cake) and sees her plane tickets. Remember: A happy admin means happy systems!

Other activities celebrating Sys Admins this week:

• Dell KACE is holding a daily “Hair-Raising IT Tales” sweepstakes in celebration SysAdmin Day. Every day, starting Monday, July 23, 2012 to Friday July 27, 2012, they’re going to be doing a drawing for a $500 amazon.com gift card or a $25 ThinkGeek gift card. Check it out at: http://bit.ly/OeApfb

• Cyber-Ark is having its 3rd Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day and Twitter Contest

• Spiceworld 2012 SysAdmin Day Discount

• Our friends at ADMIN magazine are giving one of their lucky subscribers 1-year membership to USENIX & LISA and 1 LISA '12 tech pass

Are you already making plans for LISA '12 in San Diego? Check out our videos from past LISA events:

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• LISA '10 (46)Apply LISA '10 filter
• LISA '11 (28)

What other SysAdminDay events do you know about? Tell us about them in the comments.