[BBLISA-announce] LOPSA PICC CONFERENCE IS 10 DAYS AWAY!

[tal at lopsanj.org]

3 things to know:

1. UNEMPLOYED?  Registration is slashed to $99 for you. (no questions asked)
2. SAVE: Register before May 2; "last minute" price is slightly higher.
3. OMG check out this video our Friday keynote and Perl guru created:
     1 minute / rated G : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBePwfUJRfE
     3 minutes / risque : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFWyx0YJ-iI

LOPSA New Jersey Professional IT Community Conference
New Brunswick, NJ, May 7-8, 2010 -- http://picconf.org

See you there!
Tom


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom Limoncelli <tal at lopsanj.org>
Date: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:00 PM
Subject: What's in it for you?

HALF-DAY TRAININGS:
      TIME: Time Management for System Administrators
    CAREER: Seeking Senior and Beyond: The Tech Skills That Get You Promoted
   STORAGE: Introduction to Virtualized Storage Management
      PERL: Automating System Administration with Perl
   IT MGMT: "Help! Everyone hates our IT department"
POWERSHELL: Intro to Powershell: Automate like a Wizard
      IPv6: Essential IPv6 for Linux Administrators
   STORAGE: Next Generation Storage Networking
    POLICY: IT Policies: Why IT Policies are needed and how to develop them


AMAZING KEYNOTES:

Fri: "How SysAdmins Are Portrayed in Pop Culture"
       David N. Blank-Edelman, Author of O'Reilly's "Automating
       System Administration with Perl" and Director of Technology,
       Northeastern University CCIS
                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBePwfUJRfE

Sat: "Improving the profession of system administration"
       Thomas A. Limoncelli, Author and System administrator
                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33pTUB0ebM

Sat: "System Administrators in the Wild: What we've learned from watching you!"
       Eben M. Haber, Research Staff Member, IBM Research - Almaden
                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_6gRG119cc


TALKS BY MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY:

- Pushing Boulders Uphill: NOAA Updates - High Performance Computing
    across the WAN
- Keeping Nagios Sane	
- Technical Community Response for the Haitian Earthquake	
- Drupal On-Demand	
- An overview of Google's technologies: GFS, MapReduce, and many more 
- Using Hierarchical Protection Domains for Network Security
- Panel: Tech Women Rule! Creative Solutions for being a (or working
    with a) female technologist
- Budgeting for System Administrators 
- Job-Hunting Skills for System Administrators 
- Mentoring: It's for everyone!	
- How to stop hating MySQL: Fixing common MySQL myths and mistakes	


Thanks to our sponsors:
	- Brocade
	- Usenix
	- Atrion
	- Cambridge Computer
	- ServerFault.com
	- Symantec
	- NetApp

NEW YORKERS!  PHILLY PEOPLE!
Easy access by train: http://tinyurl.com/322btkt

See you there!

LOPSA New Jersey Professional IT Community Conference
New Brunswick, NJ, May 7-8, 2010
http://picconf.org