About 5 years ago, (15 years into doing SA), I decided to seek out my peers... and I went looking for a professional organization. LOPSA was it. I looked at Usenix/SAGE/LISA and 1) it appeared to have an identity crisis, certainly wasn't a "oh, this is where I belong!" sort of click/fit. Years later, I've learned a little of the history of the split, and it does appear (having just now looked again) that Usenix/LISA is not the "go-to" spot for SAs.
Clearly USENIX has it's stuff together as an organization, but it's not an organization specifically *for* SAs. But, it seems to me, everything LOPSA does, *could* be done as a special interest group(SIG) within USENIX. -- Craig Constantine, http://constantine.name On Mar 2, 2015, at 1:50 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: 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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
