Re: LISA...how good

["Robert Borowicz Austin" <nantucket.sps.mot.com">borowicz]

On Aug 15,  9:29am, Elizabeth Zwicky wrote:
> Subject: Re: LISA...how good
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> I am, in some sense, a USENIX executive, or at least a SAGE board
> member (executive does tend to imply that they actually *pay* you,
> which is far from being the case). Since my opinion is therefore
> terribly biased, I wouldn't bother to provide it, except that somebody
> just said that LISA is the only system administration conference.
> It's my personal favorite; it's certainly the largest, and the
> longest-running; but it's not the only one. Most years there are
> three, and last year there were four. In addition to LISA, there is
> SANS in the US; LISA tends to aim at the cutting edge, while SANS
> leans more towards current best practice. (LISA is also about 1,500
> people to SANS' 300, which you may regard as either more variety or
> too big a crowd.) In Australia, there is SAGE-AU's annual conference,
> and last year SAGE-UK also had a conference.

I knew I'd be setting myself up to be corrected, but alas I'm a non-engineer
working for/with many engineers. Elizabeth, how long has the SAGE-??
conferences been going on. Also this year is the first time (in my 3 years
in the business) I've noticed a SANS, was it a first ? Seemed more focused
than LISA, maybe a help Geographically for those East Coasters ?

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> If you've never had the experience of being in the same space with
> dozens, hundreds, or thousands of other system administrators, you owe
> it to yourself to try it; even if the tutorials and the talks don't
> help you, the discussion at coffee breaks is an education in itself.
> I go to LISA every year, even if I have to pay out of my own pocket.
>
> 	Elizabeth D. Zwicky
> 	zwickycorp.sgi.com
> 	(Sender may be farther away than she appears.)
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>-- End of excerpt from Elizabeth Zwicky




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