From waltman at pobox.com Mon Mar 5 09:36:12 2012 From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 12:36:12 -0500 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting tonight? Message-ID: <20120305173612.GB23937@mawode.com> Sorry about the lack of communication about tonight's meeting. I've been very busy working on my dissertation, and I also have a bunch of other things going on this week. I think it's probably best if I stay home and work tonight. I guess we probably have the room reserved if people want to meet. I haven't totally been ignoring the group. We've got a potential speaker lined up for April, and some other cool stuff I'm not quite ready to put on the schedule yet. Walt -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: From c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk Mon Mar 5 09:54:51 2012 From: c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk (Chris Nehren) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 12:54:51 -0500 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting tonight? In-Reply-To: <20120305173612.GB23937@mawode.com> References: <20120305173612.GB23937@mawode.com> Message-ID: <9BB528C8-A040-4D4D-9215-44A15F169EE4@shadowcat.co.uk> I'm afraid I have something scheduled for tonight so can't make it. Darian, can we reschedule for next Monday or another date when everyone's available? -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren On Mar 5, 2012, at 12:36, Walt Mankowski wrote: > Sorry about the lack of communication about tonight's meeting. I've > been very busy working on my dissertation, and I also have a bunch of > other things going on this week. I think it's probably best if I stay > home and work tonight. > > I guess we probably have the room reserved if people want to meet. > > I haven't totally been ignoring the group. We've got a potential > speaker lined up for April, and some other cool stuff I'm not quite > ready to put on the schedule yet. > > Walt > _______________________________________________ > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm From darian at criticode.com Mon Mar 5 10:02:53 2012 From: darian at criticode.com (Darian Anthony Patrick) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:02:53 -0500 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting tonight? In-Reply-To: <9BB528C8-A040-4D4D-9215-44A15F169EE4@shadowcat.co.uk> References: <20120305173612.GB23937@mawode.com> <9BB528C8-A040-4D4D-9215-44A15F169EE4@shadowcat.co.uk> Message-ID: <4F54FFCD.4040703@criticode.com> Yes, let's reschedule. All, should we shoot for next Monday? On 03/05/2012 12:54 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: > I'm afraid I have something scheduled for tonight so can't make it. Darian, can we reschedule for next Monday or another date when everyone's available? -- Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC Office: (215) 789-9956 Facsimile: (866) 789-2992 Email/XMPP: darian at criticode.com Web: http://criticode.com ================================================= BCF1 E7AD 15AD 8A99 F613 AF5F 2A9C C45C F580 E087 ================================================= * Signed and encrypted communications preferred. From c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk Mon Mar 5 10:30:20 2012 From: c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk (Chris Nehren) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:30:20 -0500 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting tonight? In-Reply-To: <4F54FFCD.4040703@criticode.com> References: <20120305173612.GB23937@mawode.com> <9BB528C8-A040-4D4D-9215-44A15F169EE4@shadowcat.co.uk> <4F54FFCD.4040703@criticode.com> Message-ID: On Mar 5, 2012, at 13:02, Darian Anthony Patrick wrote: > Yes, let's reschedule. > > All, should we shoot for next Monday? > > On 03/05/2012 12:54 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: >> I'm afraid I have something scheduled for tonight so can't make it. Darian, can we reschedule for next Monday or another date when everyone's available? Next Monday works for me. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren From waltman at pobox.com Mon Mar 5 10:33:21 2012 From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:33:21 -0500 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting tonight? In-Reply-To: <4F54FFCD.4040703@criticode.com> References: <20120305173612.GB23937@mawode.com> <9BB528C8-A040-4D4D-9215-44A15F169EE4@shadowcat.co.uk> <4F54FFCD.4040703@criticode.com> Message-ID: <20120305183320.GC23937@mawode.com> Next Monday would likely be better for me than tonight. That still leaves the problem of having something to talk about. I'm thinking I probably won't have time to prepare anything new until at least June. Anyone else have anything they'd like to talk about? Or anything they'd like to hear someone else present? On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:02:53PM -0500, Darian Anthony Patrick wrote: > Yes, let's reschedule. > > All, should we shoot for next Monday? > > On 03/05/2012 12:54 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: > > I'm afraid I have something scheduled for tonight so can't make it. Darian, can we reschedule for next Monday or another date when everyone's available? > > -- > Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC > Office: (215) 789-9956 > Facsimile: (866) 789-2992 > Email/XMPP: darian at criticode.com > Web: http://criticode.com > ================================================= > BCF1 E7AD 15AD 8A99 F613 AF5F 2A9C C45C F580 E087 > ================================================= > * Signed and encrypted communications preferred. > _______________________________________________ > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: From c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk Mon Mar 5 10:38:23 2012 From: c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk (Chris Nehren) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 13:38:23 -0500 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting tonight? In-Reply-To: <20120305183320.GC23937@mawode.com> References: <20120305173612.GB23937@mawode.com> <9BB528C8-A040-4D4D-9215-44A15F169EE4@shadowcat.co.uk> <4F54FFCD.4040703@criticode.com> <20120305183320.GC23937@mawode.com> Message-ID: <8C9AF4FB-32BF-40E7-AD93-864DBEF8D692@shadowcat.co.uk> I can talk about the tabletop RPG code I've been writing if no one else steps up. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren On Mar 5, 2012, at 13:33, Walt Mankowski wrote: > Next Monday would likely be better for me than tonight. That still > leaves the problem of having something to talk about. I'm thinking I > probably won't have time to prepare anything new until at least June. > Anyone else have anything they'd like to talk about? Or anything > they'd like to hear someone else present? > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:02:53PM -0500, Darian Anthony Patrick wrote: >> Yes, let's reschedule. >> >> All, should we shoot for next Monday? >> >> On 03/05/2012 12:54 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: >>> I'm afraid I have something scheduled for tonight so can't make it. Darian, can we reschedule for next Monday or another date when everyone's available? >> >> -- >> Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC >> Office: (215) 789-9956 >> Facsimile: (866) 789-2992 >> Email/XMPP: darian at criticode.com >> Web: http://criticode.com >> ================================================= >> BCF1 E7AD 15AD 8A99 F613 AF5F 2A9C C45C F580 E087 >> ================================================= >> * Signed and encrypted communications preferred. >> _______________________________________________ >> Philadelphia-pm mailing list >> Philadelphia-pm at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm From darian at criticode.com Mon Mar 12 08:56:10 2012 From: darian at criticode.com (Darian Anthony Patrick) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:56:10 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting tonight? In-Reply-To: <20120305183320.GC23937@mawode.com> References: <20120305173612.GB23937@mawode.com> <9BB528C8-A040-4D4D-9215-44A15F169EE4@shadowcat.co.uk> <4F54FFCD.4040703@criticode.com> <20120305183320.GC23937@mawode.com> Message-ID: <4F5E1C9A.2010204@criticode.com> We're on for tonight. We have the room from 7:00p.m. to 9:00p.m. We may have to wait a few minutes for the previous meeting to clear out. Darian On 03/05/2012 01:33 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote: > Next Monday would likely be better for me than tonight. That > still leaves the problem of having something to talk about. I'm > thinking I probably won't have time to prepare anything new until > at least June. Anyone else have anything they'd like to talk about? > Or anything they'd like to hear someone else present? > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:02:53PM -0500, Darian Anthony Patrick > wrote: >> Yes, let's reschedule. >> >> All, should we shoot for next Monday? >> >> On 03/05/2012 12:54 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: >>> I'm afraid I have something scheduled for tonight so can't make >>> it. Darian, can we reschedule for next Monday or another date >>> when everyone's available? >> >> -- Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC Office: (215) >> 789-9956 Facsimile: (866) 789-2992 Email/XMPP: >> darian at criticode.com Web: http://criticode.com >> ================================================= BCF1 E7AD 15AD >> 8A99 F613 AF5F 2A9C C45C F580 E087 >> ================================================= * Signed and >> encrypted communications preferred. >> _______________________________________________ Philadelphia-pm >> mailing list Philadelphia-pm at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm -- Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC Office: (215) 789-9956 Facsimile: (866) 789-2992 Email/XMPP: darian at criticode.com Web: http://criticode.com ================================================= BCF1 E7AD 15AD 8A99 F613 AF5F 2A9C C45C F580 E087 ================================================= * Signed and encrypted communications preferred. From waltman at pobox.com Mon Mar 12 08:57:24 2012 From: waltman at pobox.com (Walt Mankowski) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:57:24 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting tonight? In-Reply-To: <4F5E1C9A.2010204@criticode.com> References: <20120305173612.GB23937@mawode.com> <9BB528C8-A040-4D4D-9215-44A15F169EE4@shadowcat.co.uk> <4F54FFCD.4040703@criticode.com> <20120305183320.GC23937@mawode.com> <4F5E1C9A.2010204@criticode.com> Message-ID: <20120312155724.GA13582@mawode.com> Awesome, thanks! On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:56:10AM -0400, Darian Anthony Patrick wrote: > We're on for tonight. We have the room from 7:00p.m. to 9:00p.m. We > may have to wait a few minutes for the previous meeting to clear out. > > Darian > > On 03/05/2012 01:33 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > Next Monday would likely be better for me than tonight. That > > still leaves the problem of having something to talk about. I'm > > thinking I probably won't have time to prepare anything new until > > at least June. Anyone else have anything they'd like to talk about? > > Or anything they'd like to hear someone else present? > > > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:02:53PM -0500, Darian Anthony Patrick > > wrote: > >> Yes, let's reschedule. > >> > >> All, should we shoot for next Monday? > >> > >> On 03/05/2012 12:54 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: > >>> I'm afraid I have something scheduled for tonight so can't make > >>> it. Darian, can we reschedule for next Monday or another date > >>> when everyone's available? > >> > >> -- Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC Office: (215) > >> 789-9956 Facsimile: (866) 789-2992 Email/XMPP: > >> darian at criticode.com Web: http://criticode.com > >> ================================================= BCF1 E7AD 15AD > >> 8A99 F613 AF5F 2A9C C45C F580 E087 > >> ================================================= * Signed and > >> encrypted communications preferred. > >> _______________________________________________ Philadelphia-pm > >> mailing list Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm > > -- > Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC > Office: (215) 789-9956 > Facsimile: (866) 789-2992 > Email/XMPP: darian at criticode.com > Web: http://criticode.com > ================================================= > BCF1 E7AD 15AD 8A99 F613 AF5F 2A9C C45C F580 E087 > ================================================= > * Signed and encrypted communications preferred. > _______________________________________________ > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: From c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk Mon Mar 12 15:29:18 2012 From: c.nehren/phl at shadowcat.co.uk (Chris Nehren) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:29:18 -0400 Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Meeting tonight? In-Reply-To: <20120312155724.GA13582@mawode.com> References: <20120305173612.GB23937@mawode.com> <9BB528C8-A040-4D4D-9215-44A15F169EE4@shadowcat.co.uk> <4F54FFCD.4040703@criticode.com> <20120305183320.GC23937@mawode.com> <4F5E1C9A.2010204@criticode.com> <20120312155724.GA13582@mawode.com> Message-ID: I will be a bit late due to some hilarity with furniture deliveries. I will likely be able to get on IRC to ask someone to open the door for me if I can't get in. -- Thanks and best regards, Chris Nehren On Mar 12, 2012, at 11:57, Walt Mankowski wrote: > Awesome, thanks! > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:56:10AM -0400, Darian Anthony Patrick wrote: >> We're on for tonight. We have the room from 7:00p.m. to 9:00p.m. We >> may have to wait a few minutes for the previous meeting to clear out. >> >> Darian >> >> On 03/05/2012 01:33 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote: >>> Next Monday would likely be better for me than tonight. That >>> still leaves the problem of having something to talk about. I'm >>> thinking I probably won't have time to prepare anything new until >>> at least June. Anyone else have anything they'd like to talk about? >>> Or anything they'd like to hear someone else present? >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:02:53PM -0500, Darian Anthony Patrick >>> wrote: >>>> Yes, let's reschedule. >>>> >>>> All, should we shoot for next Monday? >>>> >>>> On 03/05/2012 12:54 PM, Chris Nehren wrote: >>>>> I'm afraid I have something scheduled for tonight so can't make >>>>> it. Darian, can we reschedule for next Monday or another date >>>>> when everyone's available? >>>> >>>> -- Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC Office: (215) >>>> 789-9956 Facsimile: (866) 789-2992 Email/XMPP: >>>> darian at criticode.com Web: http://criticode.com >>>> ================================================= BCF1 E7AD 15AD >>>> 8A99 F613 AF5F 2A9C C45C F580 E087 >>>> ================================================= * Signed and >>>> encrypted communications preferred. >>>> _______________________________________________ Philadelphia-pm >>>> mailing list Philadelphia-pm at pm.org >>>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm >> >> -- >> Darian Anthony Patrick, Criticode LLC >> Office: (215) 789-9956 >> Facsimile: (866) 789-2992 >> Email/XMPP: darian at criticode.com >> Web: http://criticode.com >> ================================================= >> BCF1 E7AD 15AD 8A99 F613 AF5F 2A9C C45C F580 E087 >> ================================================= >> * Signed and encrypted communications preferred. >> _______________________________________________ >> Philadelphia-pm mailing list >> Philadelphia-pm at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm > _______________________________________________ > Philadelphia-pm mailing list > Philadelphia-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/philadelphia-pm From tal at whatexit.org Wed Mar 28 04:14:04 2012 From: tal at whatexit.org (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:14:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Keynotes announced! East coast LOPSA-PICC Sysadmin Conference, May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ Message-ID: <20120328111404.3F9563FF1E@jughandle.whatexit.org> [Note: "Early-bird" price ends in 3 days! Don't lose the discount!] The PICC committee is excited to announce our closing keynote speaker: Rebecca Mercuri on "The Black Swan and Information Security" Dr. Mercuri is the lead forensic expert at Notable Software, Inc. Her caseload has included matters from contraband, murder, viruses and malware, and election recounts (most notably Bush vs. Gore). She has testified on the federal, state, and local level as well as to the U.K. Cabinet. Talk abstract: The economic theories proposed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book "The Black Swan" have strong parallels in information security. Indeed, the concepts of robustness and risk assessment mentioned in Taleb's writing are also well known to those who design software and systems intended to withstand attack. Such assaults on computers, networks and data are now so commonplace that if these threats all suddenly vanished, this would likely constitute a Black Swan Event. But whether a successful and novel attack should also be considered a Black Swan may be debatable. This talk will compare the shortcomings of bell curve (Mediocristan) and power law (Extremistan) event models. The idea that outlier occurrences should be considered more "normal" will shed insight on new methods for recovery mitigation. Attendees need no formal knowledge of statistics or economics in order to appreciate the concepts discussed in this talk. Register now and avoid the rush! http://picconf.org Space is limited! ------------------------ Conference summary: Registration is open for the 2012 LOPSA PICC conference, May 11-12, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. Sysadmins and IT workers from Maine to Virginia are expected to attend the most talked about, community-driven, sysadmin conference of 2012! We're excited to announce our slate of speakers and world-class tutorials for 2012. Complete details at http://picconf.org FRIDAY is all about world-class training: -- Daytime: Long-format tutorials by world-class instructors: PowerShell, Puppet, Amazon Web Services, WordPress, DNSSEC, IPv6 and much, much more! http://www.picconf.org/picc12-training-classes -- Dinner: Dinner and reception for all attendees. -- Evening: Opening keynote (Bill Cheswick, security and passwords) -- Late: "Birds of a Feather" sessions. SATURDAY adds invited speakers on a wide variety of topics: -- Tutorials and invite talks such as: -- Learn how Google does backups, how Etsy manages DevOps, and how Mozilla has radically revamped their software release process. -- Windows users will love the talks on MS Small Business Server and tutorials on PowerShell (requested back for a 2nd year). -- Linux users will love the talks about high performance computing, the Ganeti free virtualization project, and advanced monitoring techniques. -- DevOps will be impressed by speakers from "the big three" configuration management vendors: CFEngine, Chef, and Puppet. -- Cloud computing training from speakers with "from the trenches" experience. (Speaker list: http://www.picconf.org/picc-12-talkspapers ) -- CLOSING KEYNOTE: Rebecca Mercuri on "The Black Swan and Information Security" LAST YEAR'S attendees said: -- "The talks were all technical; no marketing hype, no sales people!" -- "Small enough to have a community feeling, big enough to draw big name speakers." -- "Next year I'm sending my entire team!" REGISTER soon. You're boss will approve! Priced right! Being a non-profit, community-based conference the registration fee is what you'd pay just to travel to the big conferences. We bring world-class speakers to you; saving you money and travel time. Registration packages from $334 to $621 (with extreme discounts for students and unemployed). Save up to $125 by registering before Friday, March 30, 2012! For more information and to register visit http://picconf.org ----- PICC (The Professional IT Community Conference) (http://picconf.org) is a production of The New Jersey chapter (http://lopsanj.org) of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) (http://lopsa.org). This is our 3rd annual conference and will be held May 11-12, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. From rgeoffrey at platypiventures.com Fri Mar 30 10:51:24 2012 From: rgeoffrey at platypiventures.com (rgeoffrey at platypiventures.com) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:51:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Monday April 2 Meeting - Perl Dancer: Getting to Hello World Message-ID: <1333129884.970529378@apps.rackspace.com> This Conference Season I am presenting a talk on what I learned while trying to get started using the Perl Dancer web framework. Monday is the first of five (or six if YAPC::EU says yes) chances to see it. There are still two weeks before the DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop if you want to make a road trip on April 14. If you miss it Monday here are your other chances to see the talk: A 20 minute version with the steps to get from a blank Ubuntu box to a working Hello World website including such things as: - Installing gcc, perl, nginx, starman - Creating a simple site using the example built by "dancer -a MyWeb::APP" - Configuring NGINX to serve the site by setting a proxy for a URL to use a port number to do the real serving 2012-04-14 DC-Baltimore Perl Workshop http://dcbpw.org/dcbpw2012/talk/3975 2012-06-13 YAPC::NA Madison WI http://act.yapcna.org/2012/talk/81 A longer version to make sure everything is working and to determine exactly which parts make the 20 minute short version 2012-04-02 Philadelphia Perl Mongers http://philadelphia.pm.org/ Levine Hall, 3330 Walnut St., Room 307, 7-9 PM irc://irc.perl.org/phl.pm A 60 minute version with extras not in the 20 minute version like: - A live demo of the hello world site as provided by Dancer - A few simple changes to the site to show how to get started - Install git to track changes to the site - Install and configure gitosis so multiple users can work on the project and push to a shared repository on the server http://www.phillylinux.org/meetings.html 2012-04-04 PLUG Central 7-9pm http://www.phillylinux.org/locations/usp.html 2012-04-16 PLUG West 7-9pm http://www.phillylinux.org/locations/fnis.html I may not share the slides until after Baltimore, but the URL will be available from http://dcbpw.org/dcbpw2012/talk/3975 when I put the slides up. From tal at whatexit.org Fri Mar 30 19:50:13 2012 From: tal at whatexit.org (Tom Limoncelli) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:50:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Philadelphia-pm] Early-bird discount extended 1-week! East coast LOPSA-PICC Sysadmin Conference, May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ Message-ID: <20120331025013.975BB3FFC8@jughandle.whatexit.org> Today was the last day for "early-bird discount" but we've heard from a folks that need a little more time to convince their manager. Ok. We're suckers for a story like that. Here's what you can tell your manager: People that attended last year said: "The cost is inexpensive enough to make it a 'no brainer'" "I met someone in line for dinner that gave me advice that saved 10x the registration fee. Thank you!" The tools and techniques you learn at PICC often has an ROI of weeks, not months. Really. You can learn how to "do more with less" through automation, survive a crazy day via better personal time management, or prevent big headaches by learning about surprises others found while doing upgrades that you are likely to do this year. Remember that you'll only miss one day of work for this 2-day conference. It's magic. The advice we gave last year about talking to your boss: http://www.picconf.org/picc11/justification/ Register here: http://www.picconf.org/registration/#event ------------------------ East coast LOPSA-PICC Sysadmin Conference, May 11-12, 2012, New Brunswick, NJ "the most talked about, community-run, sysadmin conference of 2012" Register now and avoid the rush! http://picconf.org Space is limited! Registration is open for the 2012 LOPSA PICC conference, May 11-12, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. Sysadmins and IT workers from Maine to Virginia are expected to attend the most talked about, community-run, sysadmin conference of 2012! We're excited to announce our slate of speakers and world-class tutorials for 2012. Complete details at http://picconf.org Conference summary: FRIDAY is all about world-class training: -- Daytime: Long-format tutorials by world-class instructors: PowerShell, Puppet, Amazon Web Services, WordPress, DNSSEC, IPv6 and much, much more! http://www.picconf.org/picc12-training-classes -- Dinner: Dinner and reception for all attendees. -- Evening: Opening keynote (Bill Cheswick, "The future of Passwords") -- Late: "Birds of a Feather" sessions. SATURDAY adds invited speakers on a wide variety of topics: -- Tutorials and invite talks such as: -- Learn how Google does backups, how Etsy manages DevOps, and how Mozilla has radically revamped their software release process. -- Windows users will love the talks on MS Small Business Server and tutorials on PowerShell (requested back for a 2nd year). -- Linux users will love the talks about high performance computing, the Ganeti free virtualization project, and advanced monitoring techniques. -- DevOps will be impressed by speakers from "the big three" configuration management vendors: CFEngine, Chef, and Puppet. -- Cloud computing training from speakers with "from the trenches" experience. (Speaker list: http://www.picconf.org/picc-12-talkspapers ) -- CLOSING KEYNOTE: Rebecca Mercuri on "The Black Swan and Information Security" LAST YEAR'S attendees said: -- "The talks were all technical; no marketing hype, no sales people!" -- "Small enough to have a community feeling, big enough to draw big name speakers." -- "Next year I'm sending my entire team!" REGISTER soon. Your boss will approve! Priced right! Being a non-profit, community-based conference the registration fee is what you'd pay just to travel to the big conferences. We bring world-class speakers to you; saving you money and travel time. Registration packages from $334 to $621 (with extreme discounts for students and unemployed). Save up to $125 by registering before Friday, March 30, 2012! For more information and to register visit http://picconf.org ----- PICC (The Professional IT Community Conference) (http://picconf.org) is a production of The New Jersey chapter (http://lopsanj.org) of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) (http://lopsa.org). This is our 3rd annual conference and will be held May 11-12, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ.