On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll try to make it... 6pm? 7pm? > > BTW, What happened to our fearless meeting organizer?
He repeatedly said that he wasn't going to have the time to do it anymore (more or less). As a former organizer, I completely sympathize. After a while, you can just get tired or have your priorities changed (my wife gave birth to twins). BBLISA is a volunteer organization, the best way to get something to happen is to do it yourself. Either find a speaker or volunteer to give a talk yourself. I'm of the opinion that most of our presentations should be done by our members. Does that mean that they mean they may be less polished then some of our previous speakers? Yes, but acting as a system administrator's version of Toastmasters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toastmasters_International) isn't necessarily a bad thing. In any case, many people say they go to LISA/USENIX for the hallway track anyway. BBLISA meetings can certainly provide a similar function. I may be particularily sensitive to this, since for much of my career I was the only sysadmin in my department. Having a venue to talk to people with similar interests/problems can be helpful. Some people use email/irc/etc. for this, but face to face can work out better. Personally, I haven't worked professionally as a system administrator in 6? years now, so I'm not sure I even know what you people do anymore. :-)) So don't look to me to give a talk.... Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
