What occurs when the sysadmin neighborhood meets a contemporary developer motion? BayLISA and DevNet, that’s what😎!
What is BayLISA?
BayLISA stands for Bay Area Large Installation System Administrators and is a consumer group of system and community directors from the San Francisco Bay Area. The consumer group was based within the very early Nineteen Nineties after the fourth Large Installation System Administration (LISA) convention. BayLISA meets month-to-month to debate subjects of curiosity to directors and managers of websites supporting greater than 100 customers and/or computer systems. The thought was to supply a discussion board for Sysadmin professionals within the San Francisco Bay space to get collectively and change concepts, hear audio system tackle subjects of curiosity and most significantly, socialize. The conferences are free and open to the general public. BayLISA has supported and educated programs, community, storage, virtualization, and different know-how professionals within the Bay Area for over 30 years. You can discover extra particulars in regards to the consumer group at https://baylisa.org and https://www.meetup.com/baylisa.
BayLISA meets Cisco DevNet
Alright, the place does Cisco DevNet come into the image? The story of the collaboration between BayLISA and Cisco DevNet begins within the second half of 2023. As individuals had been beginning to return to in-person occasions, I had the privilege of being a speaker on the DeveloperWeek CloudX 2023 convention in San Mateo, California. There I met Ron Pagani, one of many BayLISA organizers. After a few 12 months hiatus from working the month-to-month meetups, Ron was taking a look at getting again to in-person occasions. At Cisco DevNet we had been taking a look at rising our members neighborhood at the moment so Ron and I believed that we may collaborate in a approach that’s useful for everybody. This collaboration would imply at first discovering house on the Cisco campus in San Jose the place we may run the month-to-month meetup. As a comply with as much as that, we had been additionally in a position to counsel audio system and be members on the BayLISA board.
We’ve had a profitable 2024, working a number of meetups on the Cisco Campus in San Jose however for this 12 months we determined to alter location. For the foreseeable future we’ll run the meetup at 3350 Scott Blvd Building 54, Santa Clara, CA 95054 within the Ding Ding Studio. You ought to double verify the placement of the meetup at https://www.meetup.com/baylisa simply in case and likewise please RSVP at this hyperlink in order that we all know that you simply plan on becoming a member of us in order that we are able to higher arrange the logistics for the occasion. Besides subjects of curiosity and unbelievable individuals which you could work together and chat with, there’s additionally pizza and refreshments for everybody. We additionally attempt to assist individuals which can be searching for jobs or which have positions opened on their groups or of their firm by providing an area to make these vital connections and sharing data.
Live streaming
While individuals residing within the Bay Area are greater than welcome to affix our month-to-month meetup, we all know not everybody can attend in particular person. We additionally need to expose the information shared in our meetup to a bigger on-line viewers. So we’ve determined to reside stream the BayLISA month-to-month meetups on the Cisco DevNet social media platforms, together with YouTube, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Twitch and Facebook.
The meetup takes place on the third Thursday of the month, so be sure you save that in your calendars. We’ll even have the reside streaming periods scheduled prematurely as a way to see what the subject of the session might be in addition to audio system and timing. As the periods are recorded, it’s also possible to view the recordings on-line. For YouTube, I’ve created a playlist at this hyperlink: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2k86RlAekM_r-_3uDdU4P2o4kLRF6VnB. You can already discover there the recording of the session for the month of April. We’ve had Madhupriya Ravishankar and Tianhong Zhang from Oracle presenting Converged Database: JSON Meets Relational for the Modern Era.
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