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		<title>LISA &#8217;08</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got back from LISA, and as has happened for the last few years, I was pretty disappointed. I think the thing that sticks out the most is how isolated the community is.  Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m used to &#8230; <a href="http://madstop.com/2008/11/17/lisa-08/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just got back from <a href="http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa08">LISA</a>, and as has happened for the last few years, I was pretty disappointed. I think the thing that sticks out the most is how isolated the community is.  Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m used to hanging out with developers, entrepreneurs, and Web 2.0 types, who are always looking for the next cool thing, but sysadmins claim to be geeks, and any credible geek is doing the same thing.</p>
<p>Except not at LISA.  Check a <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23lisa">Twitter Search</a>, for example &#8212; very few twitterers, almost none about the actual sessions, and no visibility within LISA of any twittering.  Or blogging.  This is the first conference I&#8217;ve gone to in ages that didn&#8217;t have a standard tag mentioned for blogging et al, which makes it hard to find blogs about a conference named &#8216;LISA&#8217;.  <a href="http://technorati.com/search/lisa08?authority=a4&amp;language=en">Technorati finds</a> 7 results, but most of those seem to be about a completely different conference.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s very frustrating, because it&#8217;s still one of the best conferences to go to as a sysadmin (although <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2009">Velocity</a> is quickly becoming better), but the attendees don&#8217;t seem to be pushing the conference, and the conference definitely isn&#8217;t pushing the attendees.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m once again friends with the guy running the conference, <a href="http://www.menlo.com/folks/adamm/">Adam Moskowitz</a>, so hopefully I can pressure him into making it a bit more online somehow.  I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s much he can do, though &#8212; he needs to somehow get the community interested, and one thing we&#8217;ve pretty clearly established is that we don&#8217;t have much of a community.</p>
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