Taking care of yourself at LISA14
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LISA14 Workshop Leaders Interview
If you've taken a look at the Workshops available at LISA this year, you’ve probably been impressed by the wide range of subjects being covered. As a small sample of what's on tap, Mark Lamourine interviewed three workshop leaders to find out more about their background and what attendees can expect.
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Interview with Lee Damon
In this interview, Lee Damon, the LISA14 Lightning Talk coordinator, tells us about some of Seattle’s great sights and attractions, getting around town, and everything else you might need to know for your upcoming trip to the Pacific Northwest.
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Interview with Tom Limoncelli
There’s so much at LISA to be excited about this year, it can be hard to know where to start. Here, longtime LISA attendee/presenter and author Tom Limoncelli tells us what he’s most looking forward to, who should hurry up and register if they haven’t already, and what he thinks about the future of system administration.
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LISA Build: Where The Network Meets Networking
Our profession is one without a lot of formal training (though that's changing...). Instead, most of our knowledge is picked up on the job. We learn by doing.
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LISA14 Co-Located Events
In addition to the talks and tutorials at LISA14, there are four other full-day events held in conjunction with the conference. Learn more about these co-located events and why you should attend them.
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Early Bird Registration for LISA14 Ends Soon!
There are deadlines you can safely ignore: they're soft, and the consequences are trivial. And then there are the deadlines that, when you miss them, make you smack your forehead and cry out to the sky avove, "WHY didn't I catch that?" We're coming close to one of those important deadlines, and I want to give you fair warning.
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LISA14 After Hours
OK, so it’s 3:00pm, everyone’s on break getting coffee. It’s been a long day of sitting and listening. It’s good stuff and I’ve met some people that I want to keep in contact with. There’s another two hours to go before dinner and then… what?
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Interview with LISA14 Chair Nicole Forsgren Velasquez
Some things are clearly a lot of work, even to people on the outside; organizing a conference the size of LISA is a good example. Sysadmins, though, can find it difficult to explain the importance of their work -- how do you point to invisible scaffolding that users only miss when it's gone? LISA14 Chair Nicole Forsgren Velasquez wants to give us the tools to show and justify the efforts we make when speaking to our customers.
Navigating Conferences as an Unusual Attendee
It’s great to see LISA paying attention to the diversity of its attendees and speakers, with talks like Building the Women@Work Community and the Ally Skills Workshop. This post will discuss how conference attendees can contribute towards creating a conference environment that’s comfortable for everyone.
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