BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS
Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time at the conference. The always popular evening Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic.
Attending BoFs Is Free!
Admission to the evening BoFs is included in every LISA '08 registration. Also, registration for the BoFs and LISA '08 Vendor Exhibition only is FREE. Online pre-registration is now closed. Register on-site at the dates and times listed here.
Vendor BoFs
Want to demonstrate a new product or discuss your company's latest technologies with LISA attendees? Host a Vendor BoF! These sponsored one-hour sessions give companies a chance to talk about products and proprietary technology—and they include promotional benefits. Email
sponsorship@usenix.org
if you're interested in sponsoring a Vendor BoF. Click
here for more information about sponsorship opportunities.
Scheduling a BoF
To schedule a BoF, simply write the BoF title as well as your name and affiliation on one of the BoF Boards located in the registration area. If you have a description of our BoF you'd like posted on this Web page, please schedule your BoF on the BoF board, then send its title, the organizer's name and affiliation, and the date, time, and location of the BoF to
bofs@usenix.org with "LISA '08 BoF" in the subject line.
BoF Schedule (as of November 13, 2008, 5:00 p.m. PST)
Monday, November 10, 2008 |
ROOM |
# of seats |
7:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m. |
8:00 p.m.– 9:00 p.m. |
9:00 p.m.– 10:00 p.m. |
10:00 p.m.– 11:00 p.m. |
Sheffield |
100 |
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Windsor
(No AV provided) |
100 |
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Juggling Perry Rivera |
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Hampton |
100 |
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Eaton
(No AV provided) |
30 |
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Fairfield |
40 |
Fedora BoF David Nalley,
$dayjob = KeyMark Inc.
contributor to Fedoraproject.org |
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Intrusion Detection Matt Disney, ORNL |
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Crescent |
30 |
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Ascot |
20 |
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Brittany |
20 |
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Clarendon |
20 |
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 |
ROOM |
# of seats |
7:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m. |
8:00 p.m.– 9:00 p.m. |
9:00 p.m.– 10:00 p.m. |
10:00 p.m.– 11:00 p.m. |
Sheffield |
100 |
Cambridge
Computer Services, Inc. Vendor BoF (Beer and Ice Cream
Social) |
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Windsor |
100 |
Sun Microsystems Vendor BoF
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Meet the USENIX Board and Staff
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Hampton |
100 |
Cfengine BoF
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System and Network Monitoring John Sellens, SYONEX |
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Garden Salon 1
(No AV provided) |
30 |
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Garden Salon 2
(No AV provided) |
30 |
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Eaton |
30 |
DHCP Forum
ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) View the presentation slides |
DNSSEC in 6 Minutes
Alan Clegg, ISC
View the presentation slides |
.GOV BoF |
Fairfield
(No AV provided) |
40 |
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Crescent |
30 |
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Ascot |
20 |
SNIA Green Storage: Measuring Energy/Power for Storage
Erik Riedel, SNIA & Seagate |
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Brittany |
70 |
Better Virtualization Management through Standards DMTF |
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Clarendon |
20 |
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends BoF Trey Harris, LOPSA |
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 |
ROOM |
# of seats |
7:30 p.m.– 8:30 p.m. |
8:30 p.m.– 9:30 p.m. |
9:30 p.m.– 10:30 p.m. |
10:30 p.m.– 11:30 p.m. |
Sheffield |
100 |
LOPSA Annual Community BOF |
Annual Backup and Data Protection Technology BoF
Jacob Farmer, Cambridge Computer |
Lightning Talks Roundtable—
Best and Worst Practices, Funny Stories, Script Hints, Tips, Etc. Perry Rivera |
Toastmasters: Practice Your Lightning Talks & Table Topics Skills |
Windsor |
100 |
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Puppet BoF
Luke Kanies, Reductive Labs |
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Hampton |
100 |
MRTG, RRDtool and Routers2 Users
Steve Shipway, The University of Auckland |
RRDtool Project in Residence Vendor BoF
Tobi Oetiker, GroundWork Open Source |
Ganglia BoF
Bernard Li, Ganglia Project |
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Eaton
(No AV provided) |
50 |
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Fairfield |
40 |
What is the Future of Forges?
Ross Turk |
Zimbra Admins
Steve Hillman, Simon Fraser University |
Getting Started with Configuration Management
Cory Lueninghoener |
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Crescent |
50 |
DNS and Network Traffic Analysis with TreeTop
David Plonka,
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
An Update On Standards
Nick Stoughton,
USENIX Standards Liaison |
Going Green: Interested? Green IT/Power/HVAC
Alva Couch, USENIX |
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Ascot |
20 |
Real World IPSec
Mark Allen |
2008's Hot Topics in System Administration
Sergey Sridov, AC&NC |
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Brittany |
50 |
Solid State Storage — Fact and Fiction, Future and Fantasy SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative |
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Clarendon |
20 |
LVS/IPVS Keepalived Jay Faulkner, Rackspace |
Centralized Logging Leon Towns-von Stauber, Intelius |
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 |
ROOM |
# of seats |
8:30 p.m.– 9:30 p.m. |
9:30 p.m.– 10:30 p.m. |
10:30 p.m.– 11:30 p.m. |
Sheffield |
100 |
9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Google Vendor BoF
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Windsor |
100 |
Open Source for Large Enterprise Problems Vendor BoF Mark Hinkle, Zenoss |
Test-Driven Sysadmin Geoff Halprin |
Juggling Perry Rivera |
Hampton |
100 |
J2EE/JAVA Administration Matthew Sacks |
OpenSolaris
Peter Galvin |
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Eaton
(No AV provided) |
50 |
Linux Distros: Which is the Best for Mass Administration? Randall, UPenn |
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Fairfield
(No AV provided) |
40 |
Issue/Request Tracking
Jessica Greer, UVA |
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Crescent |
50 |
NoMachine NX/Desktop Virtualization Paul Krizak, AMD |
Bcfg2 BoF Narayan Desai, Argonne National Laboratory |
Ascot |
20 |
Web/Internet SysAdmins (large & small sites) Matthew Barr, InteractiveOne (BlackPlanet.com) |
CACert+PGP Signing Party Riku Itapuro, TAMK Univ. of Applied Sciences, Finland |
Barbershop Quartet
Joel Huddleston |
Brittany |
20 |
Amazon AWS Q/A: EC2, S3, SQS, etc. |
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Clarendon |
20 |
Hadoop Apache OSS: Distributed File System and MapReduce Framework |
*BSD
Garrett Wolman |
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BoF Descriptions
Amazon AWS Q/A: EC2, S3, SQS, etc.
Thursday, November 13, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Brittany
Annual Backup and Data Protection Technology BoF —
Bring your problems and solutions
Jacob Farmer, CTO, Cambridge Computer
Wednesday, November 12, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Sheffield
Barbershop Quartet
Joel Huddleston
Thursday, November 13, 10:30 p.m.–11:30 p.m., Ascot
Bcfg2 BoF
Narayan Desai, Argonne National Laboratory
Thursday, November 13, 9:30 p.m.–11:30 p.m., Crescent
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Come and learn about Bcfg2, meet the Bcfg2 development team, and
hear about the roadmap for the next release. We will also be signing and selling—at a bargain rate!—copies of the SAGE Bcfg2 book. Finally, we will demonstrate
some interesting ways that Bcfg2 can be used to automate configuration
management in chaotic environments.
Better Virtualization Management through Standards
Distributed Management Task Force, Inc.
Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Brittany
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Management standards from the DMTF go beyond traditional
server management and extend to interoperable deployment and
management of virtualized environments. This session will explore
the virtualization standards being supported by vendors in their
products now and how these solutions allow you to better manage a
heterogeneous virtual environment. Meet some of the DMTF member
companies, and learn about standards being implemented in their
virtualization and management products.
*BSD
Garrett Wolman
Thursday, November 13, 9:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., Clarendon
CACert+PGP Signing Party
Riku Itapuro, TAMK Univ. of Applied Sciences, Finland
Thursday, November 13, 9:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., Ascot
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Want to get assured?
Want to enlarge your PGP web of trust?
Need CACert points?
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Place to exchange PGP-fingerprints and check ID's. Also availabe: CACert
assurers, who will check your governmental issued IDs and later add
points to your CACert acccount.
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If you are not already registered, do it now. Join at
http://cacert.org.
Community Empty CAP forms for assurance available at BoF.
You need one for each assurer in which you want to get assurance.
Bring with you at least one government-issued ID.
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Email me if you want:
a) CACert points
b) Enlarge your PGP trust
Or both so I can bring the right amount of papers.
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CACert assurers also welcome!
Centralized Logging
Leon Towns-von Stauber, Intelius
Wednesday, November 12, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Clarendon
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Let's talk about what you're using to aggregate and analyze the logs
from your systems. Or if you're not already doing that, come find out
how. Trade tips, proud moments, or horror stories about centralized
logging.
Cfengine BoF
Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Hampton
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Come and meet the author of Cfengine, field questions, and learn about
the release of Cfengine 3. Finally a real next-generation
configuration management tool with some surprising features. Meet some
of the newly formed Cfengine company, and learn about support and
services for ubiquitous configuration management.
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This year we are celebrating not only Cfengine 3's release but the
formation of a new international Cfengine company—with a birthday
cake and prizes for those who bring us or send us the best stories
about how Cfengine helped them.
DNS and Network Traffic Analysis with TreeTop
David Plonka, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Crescent
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The Domain Name System (DNS) is a one of the most widely used
services in the Internet. In this session, we consider the
question of how DNS traffic monitoring can provide an important
and useful perspective on network traffic in an enterprise.
We approach this problem by considering three classes of DNS
traffic: canonical (i.e., RFC-intended behaviors), overloaded
(e.g., black-list services), and unwanted (i.e., queries that
will never succeed). We describe a context-aware clustering
methodology that is applied to DNS query-responses to generate
the desired aggregates. Our method enables the analysis to be
scaled to expose the desired level of detail of each traffic type,
and to expose their time varying characteristics.
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We implement our method in a tool we call TreeTop, which can be used
to analyze and visualize DNS traffic in real-time. We demonstrate
the capabilities of our methodology and the utility of TreeTop
using a set of DNS traces that we collected from our campus network
over a period of three months. Our evaluation highlights both the
coarse and fine level of detail that can be revealed by our method.
Finally, we show preliminary results on how DNS analysis can be
coupled with general network traffic monitoring to provide a useful
perspective for network management and operations.
DNSSEC in 6 Minutes
Alan Clegg, ISC
Tuesday, November 11, 9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m., Eaton
Fedora BoF
David Nalley, $dayjob = KeyMark Inc.; contributor to Fedoraproject.org
Monday, November 10, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Fairfield
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Come talk about the upcoming Fedora 10 releases, happenings in the
fedora community, or learn how to get involved with Fedora.
Ganglia BoF
Bernard Li, Ganglia Project
Wednesday, November 12, 9:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., Hampton
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Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for
high-performance computing clusters and grids as well as large server
farms. Come find out what's new with the latest 3.1.1 release and see
what's in store for future releases. Tell us what you are using
Ganglia for and bring real-life experiences to share with other
Ganglia users.
Getting Started with Configuration Management
Cory Lueninghoener
Wednesday, November 12, 9:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., Fairfield
Going Green: Interested? Green IT/Power/HVAC
Alva Couch, USENIX
Wednesday, November 12, 9:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., Crescent
Google Vendor BoF
Thursday, November 13, 9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m., Sheffield
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Join Google for dessert and refreshments at their vendor BoF.
.GOV BoF
Tuesday, November 11, 10:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m., Eaton
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Work for the government? Just curious?
Hadoop Apache OSS: Distributed File System and MapReduce Framework
Thursday, November 13, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Clarendon
Intrusion Detection
Matt Disney, ORNL
Monday, November 10, 9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m., Fairfield
Issue/Request Tracking
Jessica Greer, UVA
Thursday, November 13, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Fairfield
Juggling
Perry Rivera
Monday, November 10, 9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m., Windsor
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An open discussion on anything juggling related. Beginners, passers, and interested folks all welcome.
Juggling
Perry Rivera
Thursday, November 13, 10:30 p.m.–11:15 p.m., Windsor
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Back by popular demand, here's a BoF about anything juggling
related. Discussion also on ergonomic benefits. Beginners, passers,
and interested folks all welcome.
J2EE/JAVA Administration
Matthew Sacks
Thursday, November 13, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Hampton
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends BoF
Trey Harris, LOPSA
Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Clarendon
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It's the "Alphabet BoF!" Meet other Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans, Queer or whatever letter you want to pick (and friends) LISA attendees. Talk about workplace diversity issues, plan social events for the conference, or just come to meet friendly folks at LISA.
Lightning Talks Roundtable—Best and Worst Practices, Funny Stories, Script Hints, Tips, Etc.
Perry Rivera
Wednesday, November 12, 9:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., Sheffield
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Five-minute talks on a variety of topics. Make it as formal or informal as you want. See http://tinyurl.com/lightningtalk for some general guidelines. If bringing slides, have laptop set up and ready to go.
Linux Distros: Which is the Best for Mass Administration?
Randall, UPenn
Thursday, November 13, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Eaton
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From servers to clusters to end user desktops, is there a Linux distro
best suited for deploying and managing in a diverse environment? If
you're not satisfied with your current install base, this session is for
you! If you're happy with it, come tell us why it's so great! There are
so many Linux flavors, but BSD and OpenSolaris enthusiasts are more than
welcome. I'd like to focus more on the systems administration aspect
rather then the charm of the gui. What are the features that make it more
manageable, and what are the gotchas? In the spirit of the mutt email
client, which one(s) suck less?
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About the BoF Organizer
Randall Sindlinger is a systems administrator in the School of Engineering
at the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. I share in the responsibility of
managing scores of desktops, dozens of servers, and hundreds of cluster
and grid nodes. We currently run OpenSuSE 10.3, but there are enough
changes in 11.x that this is an ideal time to consider alternatives.
LOPSA Annual Community BOF
Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Sheffield
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Join the League of Professional System Administrators' Board of Directors for a presentation of the past year's activities, followed by a Q & A. This meeting is open to all, members and non-members of LOPSA alike.
LVS/IPVS Keepalived Jay Faulkner, Rackspace
Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Clarendon
Meet the USENIX Board and Staff
Tuesday, November 11, 8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Windsor
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Members of the USENIX Board and staff want to hear from you on how we are doing. Find out what's new, and tell us how we can improve LISA, SAGE, and USENIX. Refreshments provided.
MRTG, RRDtool and Routers2 Users
Steve Shipway, The University of Auckland
Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Hampton
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A general meeting for people who use, or want to use, the popular MRTG and RRDtool software. MRTG can be used stand-alone, or with the RRDtool database backend and Routers2 frontend. RRDtool also has far more features enabling it to be used by many other applications. Learn new tips or techniques to get the most out of these from the authors of the software.
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This is the place to go for:
- Installing MRTG and getting the best performance
- Using RRDtool in other applications
- Using Routers2 to create custom MRTG graphs
- Configure your MRTG to monitor unusual things
- Monitoring virtualised hosts
- Show off what you've achieved with your installation
- Obtain a copy of the MRTG/RRD/Routers2 manual and software
NoMachine NX/Desktop Virtualization
Paul Krizak, AMD
Thursday, November 13, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Crescent
OpenSolaris
Peter Galvin
Thursday, November 13, 9:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., Hampton
Open Source for Large Enterprise Problems Vendor BoF
Mark Hinkle, Zenoss
Thursday, November 13, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Windsor
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Discussion of open source tools and integration of systems. Participants will be discussing tools including open source tools for management and collaboration. Attendees will include members of the open source Zenoss Core Monitoring and MindTouch Deki(wiki) collaboration projects.
Puppet BoF
Luke Kanies, Reductive Labs
Wednesday, November 12, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Windsor
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Come meet the author of Puppet, and chat about Puppet with other users or prospective users. Luke will come prepared to talk about the feature roadmap, the developer community, and more. Now's your chance to ask everything you want to know about Puppet, including why it's so awesome.
Real World IPSec
Mark Allen
Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Ascot
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This BoF is to discuss real world implementations of IPSec between computers, not networks. Topics will include securing legacy protocols like telnet and FTP for regulatory compliance, lessons learned from past experiences, cross-platform compatibility issues, and how to roll out IPSec without causing major network service outages.
RRDtool Project in Residence Vendor BoF
Tobi Oetiker, GroundWork Open Source
Wednesday, November 12, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Hampton
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GroundWork Open Source is proud to sponsor Tobi Oetiker's work on RRDtool. It provides key underlying functionality for GroundWork Monitor's fully-featured, highly capable IT monitoring solution. Join us in celebrating RRDtool and Tobi Oetiker at the RRDtool Project in Residence Vendor BoF.
SNIA Green Storage: Measuring Energy/Power for Storage
Erik Riedel, SNIA & Seagate
Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m., Ascot
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The SNIA Green Storage Technical Work
Group is working on metrics for assessing and evaluating the power used by
storage systems. This session will introduce the issues of power and
energy-efficiency in storage - arrays, disks, and related devices. We
welcome input and interest from storage and system administrators looking
to reduce their electric bills and increase the density of their data
centers.
Solid State Storage — Fact and Fiction, Future and Fantasy
SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative
Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Brittany
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Solid state storage based on flash memory and other technologies has received a lot of attention recently. But, what is the reality? Is there a place in the storage hierarchy for solid state storage, and if so, where? Is it enterprise ready? This is a great opportunity to get up to date information and dispel the FUD surrounding this solid state storage. Come join a lively discussion with industry experts supporting distinct points of view.
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The Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA) will provide a brief introduction to the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative and Solid State Storage Technical Work Group.
An Update On Standards
Nick Stoughton, USENIX Standards Liaison
Wednesday, November 12, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Crescent
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Nick will talk about the latest developments in the standards world, including a discussion on the Microsoft Office Open XML disaster, and the world of programming languages and operating system standards.
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What areas of Sys Admin deserve standardization? Your chance to help direct the future of this project.
2008's Hot Topics in System Administration
Sergey Sridov, AC&NC
Wednesday, November 12, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Ascot
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The following hot topics will be discussed:
- Key storage trends in 2008 and upcoming technology
- Managing storage in virtual environments (VMware, VI, Xen)
- ISCSI SAN implementation tips
- Data protection features: snapshots, replications multipathing
- FAQ
Sun Microsystems Vendor BoF
Tuesday, November 11, 7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m., Windsor
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BigAdmin is a repository of content and resources for system administrators, by system administrators. It helps Sun system, network, database, and storage administrators do their jobs better in a heterogeneous computing environment. Keeping in the tradition of bulletin boards, the BigAdmin hub and wiki enable sysadmins to both receive and post useful information, resources, and tips. In addition, the BigAdmin team continually posts content from Sun engineering and links to content we think sysadmins will find interesting.
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You can subscribe to RSS feeds of the BigAdmin hub, or to the BigAdmin newsletter. You can participate by submitting content to the BigAdmin hub, or by submitting comments or content to the BigAdmin wiki.
System and Network Monitoring
John Sellens, SYONEX
Tuesday, November 11, 9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m., Hampton
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Share tips, tricks, tools, experiences, and questions related to
system and network monitoring.
Test-Driven Sysadmin
Geoff Halprin
Thursday, November 13, 9:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m., Windsor
Toastmasters: Practice Your Lightning Talks & Table Topics Skills
Wednesday, November 12, 10:30 p.m.–11:30 p.m., Sheffield
Web/Internet SysAdmins (large & small sites)
Matthew Barr, InteractiveOne (BlackPlanet.com)
Thursday, November 13, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Ascot
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Do you work with web server farms? Deal with CDN's? Love/Hate your load balancer? This is for you. We're not the corporate folks with 1 server per project, but we're not high performance computing. We may have a few or 100's of webservers. Come, sit, chat. Argue about what works, doesn't work. How do we deal with scrapers, spammers...
We welcome folks from both large & small sites.
What is the Future of Forges?
Ross Turk
Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m., Fairfield
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Community is a cornerstone of open source, and forges, as collaborative platforms for project development and hosting, have traditionally served as a place for code and committers to come together. In this Birds of a Feather, we'll be discussing code.google.com, SourceForge.net, BerliOS, RubyForge, java.net and others as we explore the nature of open source project hosting.
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More developers are bringing code to the table, but the number of tables is increasing as well. With many projects choosing to create their own forges, is the open source community hurt by these divisions or strengthened by specialization?
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Join Ross Turk of SourceForge to talk about where you're hosted, why you like it there, and what you think about the future of open source hosting.
Zimbra Admins
Steve Hillman, Simon Fraser University
Wednesday, November 12, 8:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m., Fairfield
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Zimbra is an open source mail and collaboration server suite. If you're running it, or thinking about it, come meet with other email administrators to discuss implementations, experiences, and issues.
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