The theme of LISA10 is "Uncovering the Secrets of System Administration", and in that vein, USENIX marketing director Anne Dickison is conducting a series of interviews with prominent sysadmins from around the community.
Previously, Anne interviewed Matt Simmons, author of the Standalone Sysadmin blog live on the USENIX Ustream channel.
As part of the effort in blogging about the LISA conference, we want to show you what it's like to attend the largest conference for and by system administrators in the world, but also what it's like to run a conference like that.
Anyone who has attended LISA in the past few years is undoubtedly familiar with Tom Limoncelli. Tom's not just a LISA fixture, he's also a widely-respected author of two books (Time Management for System Administrators and The Practice of System and Network Administration) and a contributor to the Everything Sysadmin blog. Over the weekend, he sat down with me for a few min
Rudi van Drunen is the LISA'10 program chair, and it was my pleasure to interview him for the USENIX Blog readers, and to try to understand what challenges the organizers are facing when putting on such a huge event as LISA'10.
I'm a big fan of up-and-coming technology, even if it seems like it's only on the horizon. For instance, I'm a firm believer that IPv6 is necessary to learn, and I am unalterably convinced that virtualization is not going away.
As part of my Large Installation System Administration (LISA) '10 Blog Team pre-conference duties, I interviewed Anne Dickison, the Director of Marketing for the USENIX Association. As Director of Marketing, much of Anne's work involves promoting this large annual event.
The Large Installation System Administration schedule and details have been released on the official conference site.
The week-long event will begin on Sunday, November 7th in San Jose, California and continue through Friday, November 12th.
Take advantage of the Early Bird Discount Registration Deadline! Register by Monday, July 19, 2010, and save!
Take advantage of the Early Bird Discount Registration Deadline! Register by Monday, June 7, 2010, and save!