[Ubuntu-US-PA] PICC '10 announces speakers and open registration

[Tom Limoncelli]

(Please forward to your favorite sysadmins!)

LOPSA-NJ Announces Speakers and Opens Registration for Professional
IT Community Conference:
             Internationally recognized speakers headline New Jersey-based
event

http://www.picconf.org

New Brunswick, NJ, February 21, 2010 – The Professional IT
Community Conference is a regional event, but that isn't
stopping internationally known speakers from appearing and presenting
their vision of System Administration. The headliners of this event
have varied backgrounds and experiences, but all are looking forward
to sharing their thoughts on an array of topics.

Scheduled for May 7th and 8th, the two day event will feature three keynote
addresses. Renown speakers and sysadmins David Blank-Edelman and New
Jersey-native Thomas A. Limoncelli join IBM research staffer Eben Haber in
presenting keynotes to conference attendees.

Opening the conference on Friday will be David Blank-Edelman.  Blank-Edelman
is the author of “Automating System Administration with Perl”, and has spent
the past 25 years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform
environments including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and
the MIT Media Laboratory. He is currently the Director of Technology for
Northeastern University CCIS. His keynote will focus on how system
administrators are portrayed in popular culture.

Thomas A. Limoncelli is scheduled for the Saturday morning keynote, and will
be using material from an unpublished, unannounced fifth book to describe
the top techniques for building a smooth operation in terms of
infrastructure designs that “route around” problems, as well as building a
community of peers for support. Limoncelli is the author of several books on
the topic of system administration, and lives in New Jersey while commuting
to his employer, Google, in New York City.

The closing keynote address is a special treat!  Eben M. Haber, a staff
member at the IBM Research laboratory in Almaden, California, 55 miles
southeast of San Francisco. Since 2002, Eben has been part of a group of
researching working to learn more about system administration tools and
practices. Drawing inspiration from luminaries such as Margaret Mead and
Diane Fossey, they observe system administrators in their natural habitat,
record their actions using video cameras, and conduct face to face
interviews. Haber will be discussing the world of system administration from
an outsider's perspective, and highlighting the findings his team
discovered. It is sure to be both entertaining and enlightening!

Registration for the conference is now open to the public, with two options
available. A full conference and training pass is $474, although an “Early
Bird” discount price of $399 is available until March 15th, while a
conference-only pass (sans access to the special training track) is $249. In
addition, user-group and corporate discounts for groups of 4 or more people
receive an additional 10% discount. Considerable discounts are also
available for current students in limited quantities.

To register for the 2010 Professional IT Community Conference, go to
http://picconf.org and click on Register.

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Computer and network administrators... Spread the word!
      LOPSA New Jersey Professional IT Community Conference
      New Brunswick, NJ, May 7-8, 2010 -- http://picconf.org
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