Calling all students!
LISA ‘13 grant applications are due Monday, September 30, 2013
Apply at: https://www.usenix.org/students/grants
Guidelines and hints for can be found at:
https://www.usenix.org/students/tips
Register online for LISA '13 at:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/registration-information
Taking place November 3-8, 2013, in Washington, D.C., LISA '13 includes:
40 half- and full-day training sessions from the industry's top
instructors, including:
* SRE University: Non-Abstract Large System Design for Sysadmins by John
Looney, Google
* Root Cause Analysis by Stuart Kendrick, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center
* PowerShell Fundamentals by Steven Murawski, Stack Exchange
* Introduction to Chef by Nathen Harvey, Opscode
* Sessions on building good habits, increasing effectiveness in the
first 100 days with a new company, and learning how to navigate the
business world that will instill (or refresh) useful soft skills
training that will stay with you for the duration of your career
A technical program that offers practical information on a variety of
key topics, including:
* Jason Hoffman's Keynote Address, “Modern Infrastructure: The
Convergence of Network, Compute, and Data”
* Talks such as Hilary Mason’s Plenary, “Data Engineering for Complex
Systems”; and the Closing Session, “PostOps: A Non-Surgical Tale of
Software, Fragility, and Reliability,” by Todd Underwood
* Practice and Experience Reports and paper presentations on practical
concepts such as storage and data, monitoring, tools, and building and
infrastructure
Interactive sessions, including:
* NEW for 2013! The LISA Lab Hack Space allows attendees to investigate
new technologies, apply what they have learned, and interact with other
attendees in a participatory technical setting.
* Poster Sessions, BoFs, and Lightning Talks
* The Vendor Exhibition, where you'll learn about cutting-edge products
and services from industry leaders, provocative startups, and open
source projects
* Guru Is In sessions--led by experts including Daniel J Walsh on
SELinux, Adele Shakal on project management, and Charles Wimmer on
Hadoop--which allow you to pose your toughest questions and get answers.
* Last, but certainly not least, the "hallway track," which offers ample
opportunity to meet and mingle with colleagues and industry leaders
during breaks, BoFs, and other social activities.
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