[BBLISA-announce] LOPSA NJ PICC '10 announces speakers and open registration

[Tom Limoncelli]

(Please forward to your favorite sysadmins!)

LOPSA-NJ Announces Speakers and Opens Registration for Professional IT
Community Conference:      Internationally recognized speakers
headline New Jersey-based event

http://www.picconf.org

New Brunswick, NJ, February 21, 2010 – The Professional IT Community
Conference is a regional event, but that isn't stopping
internationally known speakers from appearing and presenting their
vision of System Administration. The headliners of this event have
varied backgrounds and experiences, but all are looking forward to
sharing their thoughts on an array of topics.

Scheduled for May 7th and 8th, the two day event will feature three
keynote addresses. Renown speakers and sysadmins David Blank-Edelman
and New Jersey-native Thomas A. Limoncelli join IBM research staffer
Eben Haber in presenting keynotes to conference attendees.

Opening the conference on Friday will be David Blank-Edelman.
Blank-Edelman is the author of “Automating System Administration with
Perl”, and has spent the past 25 years as a system/network
administrator in large multi-platform environments including Brandeis
University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory.
He is currently the Director of Technology for Northeastern University
CCIS. His keynote will focus on how system administrators are
portrayed in popular culture.

Thomas A. Limoncelli is scheduled for the Saturday morning keynote,
and will be using material from an unpublished, unannounced fifth book
to describe the top techniques for building a smooth operation in
terms of infrastructure designs that “route around” problems, as well
as building a community of peers for support. Limoncelli is the author
of several books on the topic of system administration, and lives in
New Jersey while commuting to his employer, Google, in New York City.

The closing keynote address is a special treat!  Eben M. Haber, a
staff member at the IBM Research laboratory in Almaden, California, 55
miles southeast of San Francisco. Since 2002, Eben has been part of a
group of researching working to learn more about system administration
tools and practices. Drawing inspiration from luminaries such as
Margaret Mead and Diane Fossey, they observe system administrators in
their natural habitat, record their actions using video cameras, and
conduct face to face interviews. Haber will be discussing the world of
system administration from an outsider's perspective, and highlighting
the findings his team discovered. It is sure to be both entertaining
and enlightening!

Registration for the conference is now open to the public, with two
options available. A full conference and training pass is $474,
although an “Early Bird” discount price of $399 is available until
March 15th, while a conference-only pass (sans access to the special
training track) is $249. In addition, user-group and corporate
discounts for groups of 4 or more people receive an additional 10%
discount. Considerable discounts are also available for current
students in limited quantities.

To register for the 2010 Professional IT Community Conference, go to
http://picconf.org and click on Register.



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