I've been meaning to join, but with finances (sole provider for a household where everyone, including myself, is disabled), and the fact that I get the most benefit out of the ML and occasionally the IRC room, I haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm hoping to do so before LISA assuming Rosetta still has the budget for me to attend LISA. If not, then I might not get around to it until next year.
I don't like being a leech, and do want to join, but right now money's just too tight to justify it to the wife. Hopefully my perspective can help illuminate things, as I doubt there aren't a lot more folks in my same shoes. -- ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Atom Powers <[email protected]> wrote: > DataPoint: > In additional to the local LOPSA chapter meetings (SASAG) I also attend > the Seattle DevOps Meetup. The DevOps meetup typically has two to three > times as many people as the SASAG meetings. Some of that could be location > but I think there is something more fundamental going on. I think the > important factors could be focus, people go to the DevOps meetup to learn > about DevOps, and the presentations, the DevOps meetup often has > presentations from people who are more easily recognized as industry > leaders. > > I think that most people at the DevOps meetup don't know what LOPSA is. > I'm not exactly sure I really know what LOPSA is, other than "an > organization of IT people". And frankly, organizations of IT people are a > dime a dozen. > > > > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Ross West <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's been an interesting discussion recently about net neutrality - one >> that I hope people start realizing it doesn't have a simple cut and paste >> solution. LOPSA is lucky enough that lots of people on here hold senior >> positions in different sides of the discussions, so many viewpoints can be >> heard/seen. >> >> Let's bust out the next one. >> >> Vince Cerf publicly went out and asked why the ACM isn't getting >> programmers to join lately: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2639990 >> >> The comment section makes for a very interesting read on the problems of >> organizations like ACM (and Lopsa/et al) on losing relevance in the current >> online world. >> >> While ACM focuses on programming, it's fairly obvious that Lopsa is in >> the same type of boat. >> >> Do you (as a reader of this mailing list) have thoughts on what would >> make Lopsa more relevant? >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > > > > -- > Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. > --Atom Powers-- > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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