LISA14 - Day The Last
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Well, it's been a long, full week and it's time for me to leave the chilliness of Seattle for the chilliness of Brooklyn. I find that the more I learn at a conference, the more tiring it tends to be as my brain desperately tries to process everything while running on not nearly enough sleep (as I said to fellow blogger Hugh, my brain is over).
After my day as an exhibitor at LISA14 I decided I was going to be sure I got my day as a participant.
Congratulations to Theodore Ts'o, who was just awarded the 2014 LISA Award for Outstanding Achievement in System Administration at LISA14. We recently sat down with Ted, and had the chance to ask him a few questions.
OK yesterday was a very different day than the previous ones. The Conference Program starts on Wednesday. The tutorials and workshops are largely over and it's time to hear from the people doing research or presenting invited talks on the whole gamet of our work. I got to listen to the opening and the keynote speech by Ken Patchett, a sysadmin at Facebook (They let a SYSADMIN talk in PUBLIC!!).
Today was the first day of conference talks, as opposed to the excellent training and workshops of yesterday, and wow, my brain is full!
I have a problem. Well, several. But specifically, I’m not trained as an engineer. That’s a bad thing, because the further I go in my career in IT Operations and software development, the more like an engineer I’m expected to be.
This is going to be a shorter lightning post than my earlier ones. I got very into what I was doing and the people I was with yesterday and didn't spend as much time (any time really) taking notes. It's 30 minutes to deadline so here goes.