LISA19 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)

Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time at the conference. Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic.

Scheduling a BoF

It's not too late! To schedule a BoF, simply write the BoF title as well as your name and affiliation on one of the BoFs boards located in the registration area. If you have a description of your BoF you'd like posted on this web page, please schedule your BoF on the BoFs board, then send the title, the organizer's name and affiliation, and the date, time, and location of the BoF to bofs@usenix.org with "LISA19 BoF" in the subject line.

Sunday, October 27
ROOM CAPACITY 7:00 pm–8:00 pm 8:00 pm–9:00 pm 9:00 pm–10:00 pm 10:00 pm–11:00 pm
Mount Hood Room 100 Cambridge Computer Beer and Ice Cream Social Vendor BoF    
Eugene Room
(No A/V)
40 USENIX Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) Networking BoF Students and Young Professionals Meetup Board Game Night
Portland Room
(No A/V)
40   Improv for Teambuilding    
Monday, October 28
ROOM CAPACITY 7:00 pm–8:00 pm 8:00 pm–9:00 pm 9:00 pm–10:00 pm 10:00 pm–11:00 pm
Mount Hood Room 100 Openshift BoF AuriStor Vendor BoF    
Eugene Room
(No A/V)
40 Bare Metal, It's There Let's Make it Work   Multi-tenant K8s: the Myth, the Legend    
Portland Room
(No A/V)
40 Elastic Vendor BoF:
Elastic Stack Use Cases
 Trans Ops BoF    
Salon ABCD 175 USENIX WiAC Session: Assertive Communication—Learning to Use Our Voice More Effectively    Board Game Night 
Salon E 400        
Salon F 400        
Salon GH 100 PostgreSQL BoF  Serverless for System Administration    
Pearl Room 40 Bloomberg Vendor BoF: Bloomberg Social Fedora and CentOS: Friendship is Magic    
Tuesday, October 29
ROOM CAPACITY 8:00 pm–9:00 pm 9:00 pm–10:00 pm 10:00 pm–11:00 pm
Mount Hood Room 100  Not Available Google Beer and Ice Cream Vendor BoF Reserved
Eugene Room
(No A/V)
40  More Metal!!! The bare metal talk continues...  Name Your Favorite Game and Conference Talk from 2018-2019  
Portland Room
(No A/V)
40      
Salon ABCD 175 Build and Break: Come Learn About LISA Build While Learning to Pick Locks    
Salon E 400 Lightning Talks    
Salon F 400      
Salon GH 100      
Pearl Room 40      

BoF Descriptions

Cambridge Computer Beer and Ice Cream Social Vendor BoF
Sunday, October 27, 7:00 pm–9:00 pm, Mount Hood Room
Join us for beer, ice cream, and conversation as we get ready to start LISA19!

USENIX Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) Networking BoF
Sunday, October 27, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm, Eugene Room
Let's talk about women in advanced computing. All registered attendees—of all genders—are welcome to attend these BoFs.

Students and Young Professionals Meetup
Sunday, October 27, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Eugene Room
Join students and young professionals to network, discuss issues in the field, and the latest happenings in the community.

Improv for Teambuilding
Sunday, October 27, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Portland Room
Organizer: Brian Sebby, Argonne National Lab
The core improv principles of saying “yes, and”, listening, and supporting your teammates can be directly applied to improving your communication skills and team cohesion at work. In this BoF, we’ll play some improv games and exercises for encouraging teamwork that you can take back home with you.

Board Game Night
Sunday, October 27, 9:00 pm–11:00 pm, Eugene Room
Join us for some good old-fashioned board games. We'll have some on hand, but bring your own games, too!

Openshift BoF
Monday, October 28, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm, Mount Hood Room
Learn 20 OpenShift and Kubernetes Features in 40 minutes
Organizer: Josh Berkus, Red Hat Inc.
Openshift/Kubernetes Gurus Brian "Redbeard" Harrington and Ryan Jarvinen will show off a whole bunch of the many things you can do with Openshift, including Operators and Operator Hub, Kiali and service mesh, machineConfig and operator-based upgrades, and more. Bring your Openshift and Kubernetes questions; we'll chat over refreshments while you learn all the things you can do on your own cloud.

USENIX WiAC Session: Assertive Communication—Learning to Use Our Voice More Effectively
Monday, October 28, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm, Salon ABCD
Presenter: Kyira Wackett

Elastic Vendor BoF
Monday, October 28, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm, Portland Room
Elastic Stack Use Cases
Let's discuss how you are using (or want to use) the Elastic Stack –– whether it be for search, logging analytics, metrics, security, apm, or something else exciting.

PostgreSQL BoF
Monday, October 28, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm, Salon GH
Organizer: Mark Wong, PostgreSQL
Meet local community members, go over highlighted features in the PostgreSQL 12 release, and ask any PostgreSQL related questions.

Bloomberg Vendor BoF
Monday, October 28, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm, Pearl Room
Bloomberg Social
Come meet new friends over drinks, snacks and conversations after our busy day 1 at LISA.

AuriStor Vendor BoF
Monday, October 28, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Mount Hood Room
We welcome our customer community, friends and everyone interested to join us at the AuriStor BoF

  • Learn about the AuriStor Global Namespace File System
  • Discuss AuriStorFS improvements since LISA18
  • Bits of Bragging about what our customers have accomplished
  • AuriStorFS and Kubernetes/Containers
  • Our Exciting Roadmap for next year
  • Open conversation with our customer community

Fedora and CentOS: Friendship is Magic
Monday, October 28, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Pearl Room
Organizers: Matthew Miller, Fedora Project; Jim Perrin, CentOS Project
Come and chat with other members of the Fedora and CentOS communities about CentOS Stream, Fedora EPEL, Fedora CoreOS, or anything else of interest.

Trans Ops BoF
Monday, October 28, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Portland Room
Come meet other trans people in ops-adjacent fields! Transmasc, transfem, any sort of nonbinary, gender questioning, tired of questioning, work in ops, work with ops people, interested enough to be at an ops conference? If you think this might be you, stop by and say hi.

Build and Break: Come Learn About LISA Build While Learning to Pick Locks
Tuesday, October 29, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Salon ABCD
Organizer: Branson Matheson
You can pick your friends and you can pick your locks .. but you shouldn’t pick your friends locks.

Lightning Talks
Tuesday, October 29, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Salon E

View the list of Lightning Talks