Sys admin meetings

[Shawn Badger]

I think most sys admin type topics in the Unix/Linux/BSD world would
help and be of interest to a majority of sys admins. The only catch is
as long as the topics are kept from being to platform specific, but even
a few of those wouldn't hurt. After all it never hurts to learn
something about another OS.

In looking at the what you have covered in some of the meetings, I think
that the BSD group would be a good fit. But do to the kids schedules it
will be a couple of months before I get a chance to check one out.



On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 16:05 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 02:31:10PM -0700, Shawn Badger wrote:
> > I personally would be interested in a sysadm type of meeting! I get some
> > out of the other topics, but usually find most of the east side meetings
> > (the only ones I have attended) to be of little interest to me. Although
> > I liked the Blender presentations!
> 
> You might be interested in some of the BSD meetings. How BSD specific
> they are varies, but often enough it'll be applicable to Linux. Recently
> we've done Nagios and Kerberos topics that would transfer pretty well.
> If you're interested then check the web site (in my sig) for upcoming
> meeting topics, etc.
> 
> Then perhaps there could be a synergy between PLUG, PhxBUG, and LOPSA.
> "Joint" meetings where the topics are applicable to the three groups.
> Minor differences between BSD and Linux could be covered but kept to a
> minimum. Nagios would have been great for that, I think.
> 
> For dev meetings it might be nice to pull in some presenters from
> Phoenix.pm, AZonRails, etc., or once again have a "Joint" meeting.
> Different groups could "host" depending on circumstances.
> 
> I'm trying to think of how to get the benefits of SIGs with less pain.
> Any suggestions?
>