Hi Will, Thanks for the kind words.
I really like the idea of a LOPSA-recommended reading list (and I think that, as an organization, LOPSA can recommend other things, too). The act costs us almost nothing, and the difficulty is minimal, particularly when the work is delegated. Good ideas. --Matt On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Will Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: > Thoughtful response (as usual) Matt… > > You said: > "If there are 100,000 IT administrators on the internet active enough to > ask and answer a question on Server Fault, where are they? Do they know > that LOPSA exists and don't care or aren't interested or don't feel like we > offer anything? Or are they completely unaware of us? How do we find out > the answer to that question? How do you reach these thousands and thousands > of people that we are trying to represent?" > > I keep thinking that LOPSA would do well to generate (or at least > promulgate if someone else generates) a BoK ("best practices") for the > profession, along with a certain amount of freely-available training (and > maybe extending training material for members.) This would give LOPSA a > powerful reason for being, and folks a good reason for joining (in order to > get the extended training materials, as well as the other benefits.) Then, > once there is something worth joining up for like this, then do some > advertising on the relevant sysadmin-ny sites. There will always be a > certain amount of folks in the profession who just don't care, to whom > their job is just a day job to be done with as little thinking effort as > possible. Can't worry about attracting those people. But maybe if LOPSA can > be seen by IT management as a professional organization that has a powerful > methodology to improve IT results, then maybe managers would become LOPSA > advocates to their people in their org's, much like some of my managers > have recommended AMA courses, Dale Carnegie classes, etc. to staffs I've > been a part of. > > About who would generate the BoK/training - there's already good books out > there on the DevOps front ("The Phoenix Project", "Continuous Delivery", > "Visible Ops Handbook", etc.) that LOPSA could put on a "recommended > reading" list, but I'm not sure what's already out there for the > nitty-gritty stuff that would take newb admins and train them up "the right > way" (like what I think Ops School is trying to work on.) Come to think of > it though, I think every sysadmin should get/read "The Practice of System > and Network Administration" by our own Tom Limoncelli et al, which I like > to refer to as "the Bible of our profession" (YMMV) - LOPSA should put that > book on the reading list as well. > > -Will > -- LITTLE GIRL: But which cookie will you eat FIRST? COOKIE MONSTER: Me think you have misconception of cookie-eating process.
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