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Conferences - Are Smaller Better?-> 2

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Bandman writes "Tom Limoncelli, author of 'The Practice of System and Network Administration', discusses how difficult it is for geeks to build real-life communities if you live outside of a couple high-density tech-oriented areas.

The solution he has in mind are regional conferences devoted to specific topics. He's going to be speaking at the NJ-based PICC'11, but even long-running events like PAX started as a small conference meant to build community.

Having a small group of organizers dedicated to building a local community seems to be more economical for everyone involved, and leads to events where everyone can take a bigger part in the process."

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Comment: Re:But but but (Score 1) 536

by Bandman (#34561246) Attached to: FBI Alleged To Have Backdoored OpenBSD's IPSEC Stack
If the allegations against the FBI are true, and they had contractors successfully hide a weakness in a hugely successful open source project like OpenBSD, can't you at least conceive that it would be possible for them to have insiders at Microsoft that have done something similar? Microsoft wouldn't have to be aware, as Theo apparently wasn't.

SysAdmin Conferences Go Local->

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Bandman writes "Last year, the NJ chapter of LOPSA organized the first "local" SysAdmin conference, meant to be a smaller, more inexpensive option compared to a national conference like LISA or SAGE-AU.

This year, the Seattle chapter is joining the fray with the Cascadia IT Conference, and the NJ-based Professional IT Community Conference is returning in a big way.

Last year's technical sessions are now online, so you can get a taste of what's going on with these local conferences."

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Defining DevOps->

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Bandman writes "DevOps is a trend that has been taking the sysadmin world by storm. The idea of co-mingling sysadmins and develops sounds foreign to too many people (and sounds old-hat to others), but like it or not, the movement has a big foothold.

The author attempts to sow seeds of understanding with a standard definition, stripped of all the "touchy-feely stuff": "DevOps is an increased interaction and interdependency between developers and operations staff""

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