Tom @ IT360, April 7, 2008, Toronto, CA
Two half-day tutorials, Help! Everyone Hates Our IT Department (And How To Change That) and Time Management for System Administrators will be taught by Tom Limoncelli at the IT360 Conference in Toronto, Canada, on April 7 (entire conference and Expo runs April 7-9). These presentations have received accolades when presented at other conferences. They've been updated and sharpened with new material. This is Tom's first appearance at the IT360 conference. Website: www.it360.ca (full workshop listing here)
Tom @ LOPSA-NJ, Feb 7, 2008, Princeton, NJ
Tom will be the invited speaker at LOPSA-NJ on February 7th, 2008. His topic is "Is SaaS the end of system administration?". Tom will also talk about the 2nd edition of TPOSANA and the April Fools RFC book.
Tom and Strata @ LISA '07, Nov 11-16, 2007, Dallas
Tutorials and invited talks will be presented by Tom Limoncelli and Strata R. Chalup, co-authors of the new 2nd edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration. LISA 2007 is in Dallas, Texas, Nov 11-16. Register now!
| Tutorial | Time Management for System Administrators | Sunday AM | Limoncelli |
| Tutorial | Practical Project Management for Sysadmins and IT Professionals | Monday AM | Chalup |
| Tutorial | Problem-Solving for IT Professionals | Monday PM | Chalup |
| Tutorial | Climb Out of the "Bad IT" Hole | Wednesday AM | Limoncelli |
| Guru-Is-In | Time Management for System Administrators | Wednesday 4-5:40pm | Limoncelli |
| Event | Book Signing for Time Management for Sysadmins | TBA | Limoncelli |
| Book Signing for TPOSANA 2ed | Wednesday 12:30-2pm | Limoncelli & Chalup | |
| HTGR | How to get your papers accepted at LISA | Friday 2:00-3:30pm | Limoncelli et al |
Strata and Tom will be at the entire conference and look forward to hanging out!
Tom @ LOPSA, Aug 6-7, 2007, Cherry Hill/Philly
Tom will be teaching a full-day Time Management for System Administrators class at LOPSA Sysadmin Days, August 6-7, 2007, in Cherry Hill, NJ (just outside Philadelphia).
Tom @ OSCON 2007, Portland, OR
Tom will be teaching the half-day version of "Time Management for System Administrators" on Tuesday, July 24, from 1:30-5pm. A book-signing for the 2nd edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration will be at the Powell's booth same day from 5:15-5:45pm. Hope to see a lot of folks there!
Strata @ SCALE, Los Angeles, Feb 9, 2007
Strata will be speaking at the 5th Annual SCALE conference. Her talk is titled The Secrets of Computer Technology Explained: for Every Woman. We hope to see you there!Tom traveling to Zurich and Dublin, 20-Jan to 3-Feb, 2007
Tom will be in Zurich and Dublin to speak at internal corporate events Jan 20-Feb 3, 2007. He's available to speak at user groups or book signings. Contact me.Tom @ Unigroup, NYC, Thu, Nov 18, 2007
Tom will be presenting his talk "Site Reliability at Google" at Unigroup in NYC in January. The meeting is open to all.Tom @ $GROUPNAME in New Jersey, Nov 15, 2006
Tom will be doing a dress-rehearsal of his "Site Reliability @ Google" talk at $GROUPNAME this Wednesday night. Be the first to hear his new material.
The person that carpools with the most first-timers (people new to $GROUPNAME) will receive a free copy of his book, Time Management for System Administrators, from O'Reilly.
Location: CoRE Auditorium, Rutgers Busch Campus, Piscataway, NJ.
Time: 7pm
For more information, visit their web site: www.groupname.org
Tom + Strata @ LISA '06 in Wash D.C., Dec 3-8, 2006
Tom and Strata be teaching and speaking at LISA 2006 in Washington D.C., Dec 3-9, 2006. This is one of our favorite conferences of the year because it is so dam useful. Get your boss to send ya. This year it is in Washington D.C., which makes it easy to get to for all the east-coasters that usually don't get around.
Tom will be speaking/teaching:
| Mon | 9am-5pm | Workshop | Managing Sysadmins (co-facilitator) |
| Wed | 2pm-3:30 | Invited Talk | Site Reliability at Google/My First Year at Google |
| Thu | AM | Tutorial | Time Management: Getting It All Done and Not Going (More) Crazy! |
| Thu | 12:30pm-1:30pm | Exhibition | "Meet the Authors" at Reiter's Conference Bookstore |
| Thu | 2pm-3:30 | Guru Talk | How to Get Your Paper Accepted at LISA |
| Thu | 4pm-5:40 | Guru Talk | Time Management for System Administrators |
| Fri | 11am-12:30 | Hit The Ground Running | Mac OS X |
Strata Rose Chalup will be speaking/teaching:
| Mon | PM | Tutorial | Project Troubleshooting |
| Wed | PM | Tutorial | Problem-Solving for IT Professionals |
| Thu | AM | Tutorial | Practical Project Management for Sysadmins and IT Professionals |
| Wed | 9pm-10pm | BOF | Sysadmin Education |
In addition, we will be hanging out in what is known as "the hallway track". In fact, if you haven't attended LISA before, you should know that a lot of the educational value is the people you meet. Tom says, "Early in my career a lot of what I learned was from the conversations in the hallway."
- More info about LISA 2006, Washington D.C., Dec 3-8, 2006
- Register for LISA 2006
Coming soon: Book signing and other events.
Tom @ LOPSA in Phoenix, Tue, Nov 6-7, 2006
Tom will be teaching a full-day tutorial on Time Management for System Administrators at LOPSA SysAdm Days in Phoenix, AZ, Nov 6-7, 2006. http://lopsa.org/SysAdminDays-Pheonix
