like most everything else - ELK or Splunk or Grafana/Graphite ?!
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Craig Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > Following on from my "extraordinary clarity" email... > > > I think most of us could agree that LOPSA is an educational organization. > I have seen discussions about a goal to "increase membership" which reminds > me of an Andy Stanley podcast (Better before bigger). He tells a story about > Chick-fil-a being concerned about a new competitor - Boston Market. They had > a meeting with high level execs trying to come up with ways to get bigger > faster so they could compete with Boston Market. Mr Truet was at the end of > the table, he was very quiet. He started banging his fist on the table until > everyone was quiet. "Gentlemen, I am sick and tired of hearing you talk > about us getting bigger. He paused. What we need to be talking about is how > do we get better? If we get better our customers will demand that we get > bigger." > > I propose that trying to simply increase LOPSA membership may not be the best > goal. > > How does LOPSA get better at educating more System Admins? > > > What is the win? > > System Administrators learn how to make their organizations better. > > Why do we do it? > > System Administrators need a trusted place to seek new information. We must > always be learning new things. > > If we did not exist what would happen? > > System Administrators may not be able to find the information they need, or > it may take them longer to find. > > How do we do it here? > > - Mentor program > - Produce an annual conference > - Host an email list > - Local chapter meetings > - etc. > > > How do we measure "The win"? > > Thoughts? > > Craig > _______________________________________________ > 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/
