What follows is an almost verbatim re-posting of my original message to the group on the lopsa-us-baltimore-dc mailing list from last week.
Fellow Crabby Admins,
tl;dr
1. December Data Center Tour Recap: Edge Web Hosting
2. January Meeting: Do we even have one? (Looking for responses)
3. February Meeting: Jason Dixon and Monitoring Love
4. March and Beyond: Ideas?
I wanted to take a moment to follow up with you all about this past month’s meeting, and what to expect in the next two months, as well as get some feedback from each of you.
1. December Data Center Tour Recap: Edge Web Hosting
This month we visited Edge Web Hosting’s data center in downtown Baltimore. We had 6 group members in attendance and Edge Web had another 4. The tour was fun and Vlad Friedman had much to do with it as he brought his enthusiasm during his presentation of the facility. Afterward, Ben Liyanage gave a presentation on the InfoBlox DNS appliance. Finally, Vlad treated us to eats and drinks at Peter’s Pour House. That was a great way to cap off the night. Many thanks to Edge Web Hosting for their hospitality.
2. January Meeting: Do we even have one?
January’s meeting is scheduled for 1/2/2013. That’s the day after New Year’s. Also, I’ll be out of town (I’ve accepted a position at Etsy and will be in Brooklyn for 3 weeks). At this time, there are no speakers lined up for the meeting. We can do one of two things:
- Hold a round table discussion on any topic the attendees like.
- Cancel the meeting.
Send an email to lopsa-us-baltimore-dc@lists.lopsa.org with your opinion and we’ll decide democratically.
3. February Meeting: Jason Dixon and Monitoring Love
In February, Jason Dixon (Twitter: @obfuscurity) will be discussing monitoring in IT operations. This will be similar to his presentation at DevOpsDays Rome:
https://speakerdeck.com/obfuscurity/the-state-of-open-source-monitoring
Jason has worked on several projects including OmniTI’s Reconnoiter and Graphite dashboards such as Tasseo and Descartes. Check out www.github.com/obfuscurity to learn more about the last two!
I’ll get an official presentation synopsis from Jason and post it to crabbyadmins.org.
4. March and Beyond: Ideas?
I know that Evan is working on a presenter for the March time slot. We’ll here more about that in the near future. After that, we have an open slate. If you have any recommendations for topics/speakers, please submit your ideas and I’ll do what I can do line things up. If you’d like to present to the group, definitely send me a message and we’ll talk.
Finally, if I don’t hear from or see any of you before next week, have a /(Merry|Happy) (Christmas|Hanukkah|Kwanzaa|Festivus|New Year’s)!/