Well, USENIX is still collecting dues for membership in it (yes, I have paid them for it) and they do have an (infrequently) active mailing list. So maybe LOPSA would be a perfect fit?? (providing the content / benefits for LISA membership)
https://www.usenix.org/membership/lisa-membership -----Original Message----- From: David Lang [mailto:da...@lang.hm] Sent: Monday, March 02, 2015 1:51 PM To: Will Dennis Cc: Derek J. Balling; Lopsa Discussion Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Does LOPSA have a project manager? As far as I can see, SAGE has basically died off. A couple years ago they renamed SAGE to LISA, but from what I can see there's not much there now. David Lang On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Will Dennis wrote: > I know LOPSA and USENIX are on speaking terms now... Has anyone from > the LOPSA BoD reached out to USENIX BoD and explored a consolidation of SAGE > and LOPSA? > IMHO, one of these org's should be folded into another (yes, yes, I > know the old history of LOPSA's founding; let the past stay in the > past...) I don't know why we'd need *two* professional org's for SA's > to continue... Seems to me that USENIX is the stronger org by far (and > has the requisite support structure in place already), and so LOPSA as > it stands today (i.e. mailing lists and mentorship program) could be > easily folded into SAGE (heck, SAGE already has the mailing list...) > > Maybe I don't have all the details here, but that's the way it seems to me... > > W. > > On Monday, March 02, 2015 12:59 PM Derek J. Balling wrote: > > On 3/2/2015 12:48 PM, Martin James Gehrke wrote: > > This is one man's opinion: What is the best use of our membership dues > > at this moment? > > To re-iterate a suggestion I made earlier: Donated to a comparable > organization, such as USENIX, followed by dissolution. LOPSA is, at best, > redundant and ineffective at this point. > > D > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
