LISA 2007
Hey folks! Tom here. We're at the LISA 2007 conference in Dallas, Texas. Tomorrow (Wednesday) morning I'll be teaching a half-day class on reforming a failing sysadmin department and Strata and I are doing a book signing in the vendor room from 12:20pm-2pm. We hope to see you all there!
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 @ SAGE-AU in Canberra, July 24-28, 2006
Tom will be doing a day-long tutorial on Time Management and opens the conference with a keynote titled What Big Sites and learn from Small Sites.
SAGE-AU's fourteenth annual conference will be held at the Chifley on Northbourne Hotel, Canberra from 24th to 28th July, 2006. For more information visit http://conf.sage-au.org.au
Tom @ SAGE-IE in Dublin, Tue, June 13, 2006
I'll be speaking on "Time Management for System Administrators" at the Tuesday, June 13 meeting at SAGE-IE in Dublin. Hope to see you there!Tom @ Stanford Linux Users Group, Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Palo Alto, CA
Time Management for System Administrators -- The 1 hour version. More info here.
Tom @ PhillyLinux, Wed, Jan 4, 2006, Philly, PA
I'll be speaking at Philly Linux Users Group about Time Management for System Administrators on Wed, Jan 4, 2006 .
More info can be found here.
Tom @ BBLISA, Wed, Jan 11, 2006, Cambridge
I'll be speaking in Cambridge/Boston at Back Bay LISA about Time Management for System Administrators on Wed, January 11, 2006.
More info can be found here.
Tom @ BayLISA, Thu, Feb 23, 2006, Mt. View, CA
I'll be speaking in the SF Bay Area (Mountain View) about Time Management for System Administrators on Thu, Feburary 23, 2006.
More info can be found here.
Tom @ BLU, Wed, Nov 16, 2005, Boston
I'll be speaking about my new book, Time Management for System Administrators, on Wed, Nov 16 at the Boston Linux & Unix Users Group. This is my second time speaking there, and I really look forward to returning.
More info here.
Tom @ Drexel CS, Thu, Nov 10, 2005, Philly
The Drexel Computer Science Graduate Student Council has invited me to speak about Time Management. If you are in the Drexel community, I'd love to see ya there!
Tom @ NYCBUG, Wed, Nov 2, 2005, NYC
I'll be speaking about Time Management for System Administrators at 6pm, Wed, Nov 2, 2005 at NYCBUG. They meet at the Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street in NYC.
More information behind this link.
Tom @ LISA2005: Dec 4-9, San Diego, CA
I'll be very active at LISA2005 this year. As I always say, LISA is the most valuable sysadmin conference around. If you like the book, please consider taking one or both of the tutorials that I'll be teaching at LISA. It's based on the book but expands on the topic considerably.
- Sun, Workshop: "Managing Sysadmins"
- Tue, Tutorial: "Help! Everyone hates our IT department!"
- Wed, Invited talk: "What big sites can learn from small sites"
- Thu, Tutorial: "Time Management for System Administrators"
- Thu, Guru: "Time Mangement"
- Fri, Paper: "HostDB: The best darn host2DNS script every"
- Fri, HTGR, "Time Management"
Tom @ LISA2004: Nov 13-19, Atlanta, GA
Tom will be at LISA 2004 teaching 2 tutorials, presenting an invited talk, and doing a book signing. LISA is the best system administration conference around. Please attend.
- Introduction to Massive Upgrades and Changes, Tutorial (Thu afternoon)
- Time Management for System Administrators: Getting It All Done and Not Going (More) Crazy!, Tutorial (Fri morning)
- Lessons Learned from Howard Dean's Digital Campaign , Invited Talk (Fri 2-3:30pm)
- Book signing (TBA)
Both tutorials are based on the book plus tons of new material.
SANE2004: Sept 27-Oct 1, Amsterdam
Tom will be at SANE2004, Sept 27 thru Oct 1, 2004 in Amsterdam teaching a full-day class and he's been asked to give an invited talk.
- A full day class: "Creating Happy Users: A"how-to guide" for sysadmins in a hurry"
- An "invited talk" on "Deconstructing User Requests"
You can download a PDF flyer or for complete information visit www.SANE.nl.
This is my first time at SANE and the first time in Amsterdam. I really look forward to meeting people there and exploring the area!
NC*SA: Mon, Sept 13, 2004
Tom will be speaking at NC*SA at the Red Hat Corporate HQ, 1801 Varsity Dr, Raleigh, NC on Monday, Sept 13 at 7:00pm:
"Where the hell is my flying car?"The presentation is free and open to the public.
It's 2004 and we still don't have moving side-walks or flying cars, and computers aren't nearly as cool as they were on The Jetsons. Tom has visited many sites in the last few years and observed a lot of really bad IT practices. He will discuss what he saw and some recent epiphanies he's had about "best practices" in system administration. The second half of the talk will be about his current project to update a small company's IT infrastructure. It has forced him to rethink what constitutes the "basic infrastructure" of an IT organization, and how big companies are held back when they forget the basics.
He's also working on a new book about time management for sysadmins, and will be treating us to some excerpts!
BayLISA: Aug 19, 2004
Tom will be speaking at BayLISA at the Apple campus in Cupertino on Thursday, Aug 19 at 7:30pm:
"Where the hell is my flying car?"The presentation is free and open to the public.
It's 2004 and we still don't have moving side-walks or flying cars, and computers aren't nearly as cool as they were on The Jetsons. Tom has visited many sites in the last few years and observed a lot of really bad IT practices. He will discuss what he saw and some recent epiphanies he's had about "best practices" in system administration. The second half of the talk will be about his current project to update a small company's IT infrastructure. It has forced him to rethink what constitutes the "basic infrastructure" of an IT organization, and how big companies are held back when they forget the basics.
He's also working on a new book about time management for sysadmins, and will be treating us to some excerpts!
OSCON2004: July 26-30, Portland
We're pleased to announce that Tom will be teaching a new and updated version of his class, "Time Management for System Administrators: Getting it all done and not going (more) crazy!" the Open Source Convention 2004 at the Portland Marriott Downtown, Portland, Oregon, July 26, 2004 - July 30, 2004. The class will be on July 26, 1:45pm to 5:15pm. More details soon.Time Management at OSCon sold out.
We're pleased to announce that Tom's class "Time Management for System Administrators: Getting it all done and not going (more) crazy!" is sold out for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2004 in Portland, Oregon, July 26, 2004 - July 30, 2004. You can sign up for the same tutorial at LISA 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 14-19, 2004. See you there!
Usenix2004: June 28, Boston
We're proud to announce that Tom will be speaking at a panel called "System Administration: The Big Picture" at Usenix 2004.
Session: System Administration: The Big Picture
The Human Big Picture
Tom Limoncelli
Imagine rolling out a security patch, a new application, or a new operating system to 40,000 PCs�it's 70% communication, 25% technical work, and 10% ego management. System administration on a large scale becomes a study of human relationships: managing large teams of people on a project, managing expectations and resources with upper management, and coordinating with a user base. Psychology and public relations become just as important as technical prowess. Why aren't those skills taught to CS majors?
Tom & Chris @ NordU2003, Feb 11-12, Västerås, Sweden
Take a class with Tom & Chris at NordU2003!Feb 11-12, 2003
Västerås, Sweden.
"Technical Tools for Creating Happy Users" (Tueday, full-day)
"Introduction to Massive Upgrades and Changes" (Wednesday, half-day)
Both tutorials based on the book. Details and on-line registration.
Tom & Chris @ LISA 2002, Nov 3-8, Philly
Tom & Chris will be presenting 2 tutorials at Usenix LISA 2002November 3-8, Philly, PA, US.
Title and exact dates to be announced soon.
Tom @ BayLISA, Sept 19, Palo Alto
Tom speaking at the BayLISASept 19, 7:30pm, Palo Alto, CA US.
His talk is titled "Geeks Write a Book".
BLUG: Sept 18, Boston
Tom speaking at the Boston Linux & Unix User GroupSept 18, 7pm, Boston, US.
His talk is titled "Internet Collaboration and Systems Administration".
Christine at Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, Aug 7, 2002
Christine speaking at Silicon Valley Linux Users GroupAugust 7, 7-9pm, San Jose, CA, US.
(Topic: Maintenance Windows)
Tom at SAGE-AU2002: Aug 5-9, Melbourne
Tom speaking at SAGE-AU 2002 ConferenceAugust 5-9, Melbourne, AU
Aug 5: Full Day Tutorial: "Tools for Creating Happy Users"
Aug 8: Keynote: "Deconstructing User Requests"
Aug 9: Invited Talk: "(Ab)using sysadmin tools for Internet collaboration"
Christine speaking at SANE 2002, May 27, 2002
Christine speaking at SANE 2002. May 27 - 31, 2002, Maastricht, The Netherlands.Her topic is "Scheduled Maintenance Windows".
Tom speaking at Unigroup, May 23, 2002
Tom speaking at Unigroup. May 23, 6pm, NYC, US. His talk is titled "Internet collaboration for the truly geeky".Tom at Old Bay SAGE
Tom at Old Bay SAGE in Baltimore Maryland.Tom Speaks at LISA 2001
If you are attending LISA 2001, be sure to see Tom speak:Thu, 11am: Guru session
Thu, 12:30pm: Book Signing (vendor area)
Thu, 9pm: Book Signing BOF
Fri, 2pm: Panel: "The Future of Security"
