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USENIX and LOPSA have partnered to provide LOPSA members a $45 discount to the USENIX LISA 2010 conference. To take advantage of the discount, enter the code into the Discount code field on the LISA'10 registration form.

Throughout LISA registration, LOPSA will be offering a promotional membership rate of $35/year for new members or renewals. When you account for the LISA discount, this means if you become a member now, and attend LISA, you'll be getting paid $10 to attend your favorite System Administration conference, which should help you sell it to those who have to approve purchases.

LISA'10 is being held in San Jose, CA during the week of November 7–12, 2010.

The LISA conference is sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with LOPSA and other organizations.

LOPSA is offering the following classes at OLFU in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, September 10th

* IPv6 essentials and deployment Strategies
* Black Magic: Linux Troubleshooting and System Administration
* Application Acceleration and Tiered Storage and Archiving
* Monitoring and Nagios
* Introduction to Automating System Administration with Cfengine
* Data Centers: Planning, Expanding, Managing

A full class schedule can be found at http://www.ohiolinux.org/olfu.html

LOPSA instructors return for the fourth year to Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus, Ohio on Friday September

Start: 2010-09-02 19:00 End: 2010-09-02 21:00 Timezone: US/Eastern

Date: Thursday September 2nd 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 7:20 PM - Social Time
7:20 PM - 7:30 PM - LOPSA-NJ Business and Announcements
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM - Main Presentation

This month we have two speakers and two different talks. Both speakers have had there talks accepted by LISA and have agreed to have them heard first here at LOPSA-NJ.

Derek will give a dress rehearsal for his LISA talk, described below:

"iSCSI SANs Don't Have To Suck"

We have created a iSCSI SAN architecture which permits maintenance of network components without any downtime, thus improving our ability to maintain the SAN beyond iSCSI's mediocre reputation. During development of this architecture we learned three important lessons, which have enabled us to create an architecture that allows for stability, as well as zero-downtime upgrades and maintenance.

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Attached is the transcript of the July 2010 LOPSA Live! session. This session includes thanks to Moose, Sysadmin Day and events, upcoming Board activities, OLF/OLFu, Seattle Area conference in the formative stages needing volunteers, the Mentoring Program, LISA coming up, and work beginning on the next Salary Survey. The long meeting was called to an end and the channel left open for a longer public discussion afterward on unprofessional behaviour in our public forums that is included separately as well. As always, volunteers are needed for most if not all of the above, contact us if you want to help out at board@lopsa.org.

Greetings!!!

If you are looking to join or renew for the discounted price you can find it here https://lopsa.org/joinup

Have great day!

Join us today at 4PM Eastern time on #lopsa-live for a discussion with the LOPSA board of directors about the current goings on in LOPSA.

#lopsa-live is an IRC channel on freenode. You can find information on connecting on our website https://lopsa.org/irc

See you there.

July 2010 LOPSAgram July 2010 LOPSAgram Please email board@lopsa.org with any questions, comments, or ideas. We always want to hear from our membership. In this memo: 1.   Tom Perrine will chair the Leadership Committee
2.   LOPSA Live --- Thursday, July 29th
3.   Sysadmin Appreciation Day Events and announcements
3a. SPECIAL Membership Offer 40% off - JOIN or RENEW Friday-Sunday!
3b. SysAdmin Day Meetup in NYC
3c. SysAdmin Appreciation Party in San Francisco
3d. SysAdmin Appreciation Day Contest --- Win an iPad!
3e. OpenDNS Announces SysAdmin Award Winners
4.   Special thanks to Trey Harris
5.   Mentorship program moves forward.
6.   LOPSA will be offering 6 Classes at OLFU in September
7.   LISA 2010: Consider submitting a Poster or a WIP
8.   Computing Now article on the Emergence of the IT Discipline
9.   Thanks to all of our LOPSA sponsors!
10. Comments or suggestions?

In recognition of National Systems Administrator Appreciation Day on July 30, Azaleos is reaching out to our brothers and sisters on technical teams everywhere. We want to hear your most outrageous stories about your "bad days" related to deployment, migration and support of Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, SharePoint and/or Office Communications Server- what went wrong and what you did to save the day. The best IT Disaster stories will be featured on our site and the winner gets an iPad!

Ohio LinuxFest 2010
Free and Open Source Software Conference and Expo
Columbus, Ohio | September 10-12, 2010

Columbus, Ohio -- June 29, 2010 -- Bring your A Game and pitch a proposal that will help educate and entertain the masses at this year's Ohio LinuxFest. The organizers have extended the call for presentations until July 7th to ensure the best possible selection of talks for this year's Ohio LinuxFest.

We're looking for speakers who can address a wide range of topics related to Linux and open source. Talks suited for beginners or experts, or in-between, are welcome. We're particularly interested in talks on current topics like Android, MeeGo, KVM, Python for System Administration, WordPress, GNOME, KDE, Ruby on Rails, Django, Linux distributions, and more. And just because it's a LinuxFest doesn't mean we won't welcome BSD-related talks with open arms. In short, if it's relevant to the OLF audience, we'd like to hear your ideas.

The life of the SysAdmin sucks. No one in the office knows who they are, they work behind the scenes, and the only time someone pays attention to them is to yell at them or complain when a network goes down.

Here at OpenDNS, we know the SysAdmins work around the clock to keep their networks online, speedy and secure. And to publically celebrate these tireless foot soldiers, we’re presenting the 2020 SysAdmin Awards, as part of System Administrator Appreciation month, held each July.

More information on the award categories and judging is below, and all the details are also posted on our blog (http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/02/announcing-the-2010-sysadmin-of-the-year-awards/).

Attached is the transcript of the May 2010 LOPSA Live session. This session includes after PICC comments, LOPSA Mentorship Program, position changes for Trey and Travis, and calls for volunteers, most specifically for OLFU, mentoring and the newly open positions).