I should have said "community organization" with education being a large focus for the community.
Yes, these are things that LOPSA does now. I imagine a re-focusing and not a re-formatting. As a community organization it isn't that people pay attention to us but that we pay attention to other people. Instead of measuring our success in membership numbers perhaps we measure it in how many people attend conferences and/or meetups to say "I'm a member of LOPSA and I'm here to tell you about ...". The mentorship program should be promoted and made free again. (Maybe I fell off the list but I haven't seen any new people seeking a mentor since LISA.) We can work with other meetups. We can create "best practices" for starting locals and presenting at conferences. We could have resume training and job BoFs. There are lots of things we can do to make LOPSA more important to people and I think one of the best ways to do that is to help people. Let people say "Those LOPSA guys are pretty cool. They helped me out. I want to be part of that." On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:50 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Atom Powers wrote: > > so how would "an educational organization" look different than LOPSA does > today? What would we stop doing, and what would we start doing? > > More importantly, why would anyone pay attention to us? > > Unless I'm mistaken, Education is one of the missions of LOPSA now, and we > have the internal mentorship program and chapter meetings providing this (as > well as the mailing lists). We also provide training at some conferences. > > David Lang -- 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/
