Category: 2013

Call for Participation

LOPSA-East – The Professional IT Community Conference

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LOPSA-EAST13 is a gathering of professionals from the diverse IT (computer and network administration) community in New Jersey to learn, share ideas, and network. The conference includes invited speakers and keynotes, training by top-notch experts that is relevant, useful, and recession-friendly; plus a “Birds of a Feather” track where attendees propose and host their own topics during the event. We expect attendance of 100 to 150 IT professionals from mid to large sized companies and academia from New Jersey/New York/Pennsylvania. We go by many titles but everyone is invited: system administrators, network administrators, network engineers, Windows, Linux, Unix, DBAs, etc. You might be interested in the Lightning Talks, follow this link and you will find the answers of all your questions.

Presentation Topics

We strongly welcome topics on best practices, new developments in systems administration, and cutting edge techniques to better manage Linux, Unix, …

LOPSA-East Training

The training programs at LOPSA-East 2013 Conference are in depth and useful for all levels of System Administrators. You will be able to select from 12 half day training tutorials spread over 2 days for a complete immersion into the topic.  All events are held at the Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ. For most classes the training materials will be provided to you on a 2GB USB drive. If you’d like to access them during your class, please remember to bring a laptop.

Friday May 3, 2013
Half Day Morning (9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)
F1
Garden State Ball Room A
Thomas Uphill A Gentle Introduction to Puppet
F2
Garden State Ball Room B
Steven Murawski PowerShell Fundamentals
F3
Conference Room B
David N. Blank-Edelman Build A SysAdmin Sandbox
F4
Garden State Ball Room C
Aleksey Tsalolikhin CFEngine 3 Pressure Cooker Course: Zero to Hero in 3 hours
F5
Conference Room A
Nathen Harvey Resolv the World with Chef: An Introduction to Chef for Sysadmins
F6
Conference Room C
Thomas A. Limoncelli Evil Genius 101
Half Day Afternoon (1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)
F7
Conference Room A
Kyle Fulton Automation in the Cloud with Puppet
F8
Garden State Ball Room A
Steven Murawski Building