Please email board@lopsa.org with any questions, comments, or ideas.
We always want to hear from our membership.
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In this memo:
01. Election Update
02. Questions for Candidates?
03. IT Paleontology: Digging for the Oldest Software in Your Shop
04. SysAdmin Day Coming Soon
05. Conference Speakers
06. Job Openings
07. From the Mailing Lists
08. LOPSA Columbus
09. LOPSA-LA
10. LOPSA-Seattle
11. Thank you to our sponsors!
12. Comments or suggestions?
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01. Election Update
The Leadership Committee is diligently working to finalize the candidate
slate by June 9. Following shortly, we will be opening elections.
Meanwhile, there's still a little bit of time to nominate yourself or a
fellow LOPSA member. Please contact the LC at leadership@lopsa.org to
nominate someone!
02. Questions for Candidates?
The elections are approaching quickly and we're trying something new with
this election. Do you have questions for the board candidates? Send your
questions to the Leadership Committee (LC) for them to be considered and
answered by prospective candidates! Please submit your questions to
leadership@lopsa.org by June 15 to ensure that they're considered.
03. IT Paleontology: Digging for the Oldest Software in Your Shop
A while back Esther Schindler asked for help with a article on the oldest
software used today and included a shout out to LOPSA. You can see it at:
http://www.druva.com/blog/it-paleontology-digging-for-the-oldest-software-in-your-shop/
04. SysAdmin Day Coming Soon
SysAdmin will be held on July 31st this year so start planning your party
now. If you set up a meetup and 10 or more people sign up, send an email
to communications@lopsa.org with the meetup link and LOPSA will send you
3 t-shirts to help celebrate SysAdmin day. Look for more next month on LOPSA
and SysAdmin Day.
05. Conference Speakers
If you are speaking at a conference and would like to help spread the word
about LOPSA, send an email to communications@lopsa.org with a link to your
talk and LOPSA will send you a t-shirt you can wear at the conference.
06. Job Openings
These are a few of the recent postings to our sajobs mail list...
WAN Technician - Philadelphia
VOIP/SIP Linux Admin - Los Angeles
DevOps - Seattle
For details on these jobs please check out the jobs list archives at:
https://lists.lopsa.org/pipermail/sajobs/
07. From the Mailing Lists
Last month there were discussions on how to manage loaner equipment,
VOIP monitoring, the future of OpenStack, and privacy policies among
other items. The longest discussion was by Matt who asked for advice
in finding a job that will use the skills adn knowledge he has developed
over several years as a system admin. You can read the details at
https://lists.lopsa.org/pipermail/discuss/2015-May/thread.html
08. LOPSA Columbus
LOPSA Columbus met in May at CoverMyMeds where Bill Schwanitz presented
about tuning and troubleshooting Java from an operations perspective. Keep
an eye on the mailing list for an upcoming announcement about a presentation
about automating database schema changes. Rob Ball has volunteered to help
organize the club and he officially began helping in April. He has been a
big help so far between helping folks get checked in and getting speakers
organized in advance of their presentations. Welcome Rob to the team!
09. LOPSA-LA
LOPSA LA will be "the sysadmins who lunch" on Tuesday June 9th with our
very first LunchOps. RSVP http://www.meetup.com/lopsala/events/222469769/
10. LOPSA-Seattle
SASAG completed its elections with Paul English elected President and
Thomas Uphill elected Vice-President. On June 11th, Peter Godman, CEO and
founder of Qumulo, will share his expert view on how to work your way
through the storage landscape of today in order to support the digital
workflows of tomorrow. For more details check out http://www.sasag.org/
11. Thank you to our sponsors!
We'd like to thank our sponsors. We're deeply grateful for their
continuing support of LOPSA. For more information on how to become a
sponsor visit https://lopsa.org/Become-a-Sponsor
Thanks to our individual sponsors:
Platinum: Jennine Townsend, Dan Rich, Ski Kacoroski
Gold: Steve VanDevender
Silver: Matt Disney, Lee Damon, Scott Murphy, Ian Viemeister
Bronze: Gary Studwell
Sponsor: John Boris
Bronze Sponsor O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators
through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since
1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge
development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and
spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha
geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the
technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy,
meme-making, and evangelism. Check them out at http://www.oreilly.com/
LOPSA's website is hosted by ServerBeach, check them out at http://www.serverbeach.com/
12. Comments or suggestions?
As we close out this month's LOPSAgram, we want to make sure we're
giving you the information you want or need. If you have any comments or
suggestions, please feel free to send them to communications@lopsa.org
