If you register for USENIX LISA'11 by 11:59PM (Pacific Time) Friday, December 2, your name will automatically be entered into a drawing for two 30-minute, one-on-one time management coaching classes with Tom Limoncelli to be held at LISA '11.
William LeFebvre has been using Unix since 1983 and attended his first LISA in 1993 (LISA VII) in Monterey. Since then, William has attended every LISA, with the exception of 2007 and 2008. "I have been a participant in most LISAs," he says.
Lee Damon, a founding member of the System Administrators Guild and the League of Professional System Administrators, has attended all but one LISA event since 1989. "The focus on 'Large' was very strong in the first few conferences, but had pretty much fallen by the wayside by 1993-1995," he says.
Recently I researched and wrote an article for The Linux Foundation on what employers want from a Linux admin. If you read that article and then look at the LISA '11 schedule, you'll see that our schedule nicely aligns with the most in-demand job skills.
Maybe you've heard about this little thing called the "cloud"? If so, you'll be happy to know that LISA '11 has plenty of cloud coverage: Join us on Friday, December 9th, for the CloudStack Build a Cloud Day.
Ten lucky LISA '11 registrants will score a free 1-year subscription to ADMIN Magazine, and one lucky name will be drawn for a free technical session pass to the event. If you'd like to have your name in the drawing, be sure you've registered by Friday, November 25, at 11:59PM Pacific Time.
Since 1995, Carolyn Rowland has attended 10 LISA conferences. "I was involved in '10 as part of the Program Committee," she says.
Adam Moskowitz has been teaching since 1977. He started with swimming and first aid classes for the American Red Cross, then as a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard University Extension Program, then full-time for six years with Instruction Set, teaching classes in C and UNIX programming and UNIX system administration as well as "train the trainer" for those same classes.
LISA '11's virtualization training series kicks off on Sunday with an all-day session focused on VMWare's vCloud product. vCloud allows administrators to set up internal clouds, run on external cloud providers, or use a mix of the two.
One of the benefits of being the "Blog Team Lead" is that I get to pick who I want to interview. The first person I selected was Ben Rockwood, long time blogger at Cuddletech and DevOps guru / practitioner. I've admired his writing for a long time, and I jumped at the chance to speak with him about his keynote address and DevOps in general.