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Ohio LinuxFest 2010
Free and Open Source Software Conference and Expo
Columbus, Ohio | September 10-12, 2010

Columbus, Ohio -- June 29, 2010 -- Bring your A Game and pitch a proposal that will help educate and entertain the masses at this year's Ohio LinuxFest. The organizers have extended the call for presentations until July 7th to ensure the best possible selection of talks for this year's Ohio LinuxFest.

We're looking for speakers who can address a wide range of topics related to Linux and open source. Talks suited for beginners or experts, or in-between, are welcome. We're particularly interested in talks on current topics like Android, MeeGo, KVM, Python for System Administration, WordPress, GNOME, KDE, Ruby on Rails, Django, Linux distributions, and more. And just because it's a LinuxFest doesn't mean we won't welcome BSD-related talks with open arms. In short, if it's relevant to the OLF audience, we'd like to hear your ideas.

The life of the SysAdmin sucks. No one in the office knows who they are, they work behind the scenes, and the only time someone pays attention to them is to yell at them or complain when a network goes down.

Here at OpenDNS, we know the SysAdmins work around the clock to keep their networks online, speedy and secure. And to publically celebrate these tireless foot soldiers, we’re presenting the 2020 SysAdmin Awards, as part of System Administrator Appreciation month, held each July.

More information on the award categories and judging is below, and all the details are also posted on our blog (http://blog.opendns.com/2010/06/02/announcing-the-2010-sysadmin-of-the-year-awards/).

Attached is the transcript of the May 2010 LOPSA Live session. This session includes after PICC comments, LOPSA Mentorship Program, position changes for Trey and Travis, and calls for volunteers, most specifically for OLFU, mentoring and the newly open positions).

Chat with the Board and community about anything LOPSA on the #lopsa-live IRC channel. Friday 2010/05/21 @ 4PM US/Eastern.
(LOPSA IRC instructions and information)

The LOPSA Board congratulates LOPSA-NJ on the success of the LOSPA-NJ Professional IT Community Conference (PICC '10), May 7-8 2010 in New Brunswick, NJ. We also thank and commend the Conference Chair, William Bilancio, the PICC '10 Organizing Committee, the speakers and volunteers for their dedication and hard work, which was reflected in the quality of the conference and value to all participants. You have built a solid foundation for future PICC conferences, and served the community well.

More information on PICC '10 is online at http://lopsanj.org/events/picc10/

LOPSA is working on a mentorship program, and we need your help!

Following up on the great keynote by Tom Limoncelli at the PICC conference someone mentioned the need for mentoring and there was a clear interest in the room of people to be mentors and be mentored. This page is a place holder for the development of this idea.

Please email [email protected] with your interest both as being a mentor, finding a mentor, helping us develop a mentorship program to make introductions of people, or any combination of those.

Watch this page for more information coming soon.

Following up on the great keynote by Tom Limoncelli at the PICC conference someone mentioned the need for mentoring and there was a clear interest in the room of people to be mentors and be mentored. This page is a place holder for the development of this idea.

Please email [email protected] with your interest both as being a mentor or being mentored or both. Watch this page for more information coming soon.

Are you going to be at the Trenton Computer Festival (TCF)? If you are stop by and say hi at the LOPSA table. It will be manned by the LOPSA-NJ members. They will be answering questions about LOPSA and the LOPSA Professional IT Community Conference. You will also be able to register for the conference at the table as well.