Are you attending SCALE11x in Los Angeles this weekend? I look forward to SCALE every year and was excited to have a USENIX booth in the expo again.
In a new Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) interview series, we focus on sysadmins. This week we hear from Mary Arras, Sr. System Engineer at The Nature Conservancy.
RE: Briefly tell us about yourself and what you currently do.
In a new Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) interview series, we focus on sysadmins. This week we hear from Amy Rich. I first met Rich when she was the Q&A columnist for Sys Admin magazine. Now she works at Mozilla, in addition to wearing a few other hats.
RE: Tell us about yourself and what you currently do.
Open access to scholarly papers continues to be a hot topic, as it should be. Back in April, I wrote about the USENIX open access policy. Since 2008, USENIX papers have been freely available and USENIX authors retain their copyright.
In a new Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) interview series, we focus on sysadmins. Recently Dawn Foster, Puppet's community lead, emailed me to ask for help recruiting speakers for Puppet Camps and conferences. So naturally, I recruited her to be my first interviewee.
What's going on with the USENIX community? Robin "Roblimo" Miller asked me that question over G+ last week. See the video online at Slashdot:
Did you make a list of New Year's Resolutions that included things such as:
The second Papers and Reports session on Thursday morning, chaired by Andrew Hume, focused on education and training. The first to present was Rudy Gevaert from Ghent University. In his talk, entitled "A sustainable model for ICT capacity building in developing countries", Rudy discussed lessons learned over nearly a decade of bringing information and communication technology (ICT) skills and resources to developing nations.
This post is written jointly by Ben Cotton and Greg Riedesel
The opening topic -- and a recurring theme -- was mentoring. Each of the panelists described traits of a helpful mentor. Listening may be the most important skill a mentor can have, but asking the right questions is also critical.
Friday morning at LISA, people are tired but sessions still go on. Engineers from Engadget gave a presentation on how they survive Apple product announcements. It’s a very hard problem. The 4.4 billion requests during the two hour announcement is more than most of AOL’s sites get in a week.