Just a reminder that the bblisa meeting is this Wednesday since I have heard from a few people that they lost track of which Wednesday it was on.
Our speaker is David Blank-Edelman. David is the Director of Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science and the author of the O'Reilly book Automating System Administration with Perl (the second edition of the Otter Book). He has spent the last 25 years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform environments, including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory. He was the program chair of the LISA 2005 conference, one of the LISA 2006 Invited Talks co-chairs and the grateful recipient of the 2009 SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award. The meeting is on Wednesday, January 13 at 7PM in room E51-149 on the MIT campus in Cambridge (http://www.bblisa.org/directions.html). It is a short walk from the Kendall Square T station on the red line for those without cars. The subject for the talk is: "I Got My Jet Pack an I'm Still Not Happy" Systems administration needs help. Over the last twenty-five years or so I've watched the tools we've used just barely be able to keep up with the challenges of our field. New advancements in user interfaces get promised, offered, adopted and then shed with nothing but temporary relief. In this "from the trenches" talk we'll look some of the challenges that have thwarted our best efforts. I'll also show you some of my puny attempts to poke at the beast from new directions and see if I can enlist your expertise in the battle. I have never failed to be entertained by one of David's talks, so I hope to see you at what promises to be an entertaining and thought provoking presentation. Also prior to the meeting I and a few other bblisa-admins will be soliciting ideas on how to improve attendance at these meetings and making them more relevant to the members. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
