This year's Usenix LISA conference has two exciting events about Women and Computing:
Sunday, Nov 3, 2013:
- 9am-5pm:
- Workshop: Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC): Recognizing and Overcoming Bias-Ways to Make Your Workplace More Successful and Welcoming
- Leslie Hawthorn, Red Hat; Sheeri Cabral, Mozilla
- Format: Half Day Workshop (mixture of presentations and discussion)
Thursday, Nov 7, 2013:
- 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
- Panel: Women in Advanced Computing
- Moderator: Rikki Endsley, USENIX Association; Panelists: Amy Rich, Mozilla Corporation; Deanna McNeil, Learning Tree International; Amy Forinash
- Format: Panel
Participation by women at this year's conference is impressive. Here is a list of talks (I may be missing some, I'm going by first name which is an imperfect algorithm.)
Sunday, Nov 3, 2013:
- Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC): Recognizing and Overcoming Bias-Ways to Make Your Workplace More Successful and Welcoming
- The Practical Gamemaster: Hands-On Design and Execution of IT Emergency Operations Drills
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/workshops/systems-workflow
- The Raspberry Pi: More Than a Toy?
- File Systems: Top to Bottom and Back
- A New Model: Advancing Organizational Security Through Peacebuilding
Monday, Nov 4, 2013:
- Navigating the Business World for Sysadmins: The Trusted Adviser
- Navigating the Business World for Sysadmins: Methods
Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013:
- Ganeti: Your Private Virtualization Cloud the Way Google Does It
- Disaster Recovery Plans: Design, Implementation and Maintenance Using the ITIL Framework
Wednesday, Nov 6, 2013:
- Our Jobs Are Evolving: Can We Keep Up?
- Becoming a Gamemaster: Designing IT Emergency Operations and Drills
- YinzCam: Experiences with In-Venue Mobile Video and Replays
Thursday, Nov 7, 2013:
- Data Engineering for Complex Systems
- Making Problem Diagnosis Work for Large-Scale, Production Storage Systems
- Women in Advanced Computing
- Making Problem Diagnosis Work for Large-Scale, Production Storage Systems
- Supporting Undoability in Systems Operations
- Project Management: Establishing and Fostering the Basics
- The Intersection of Cyber Security, Critical Infrastructure, and Control Systems
Friday, Nov 9, 2013:
Other lists of presentations: DevOps, Programming, Unix/Linux administration technical skills, and Cloud Computing at Usenix LISA.
[I apologize in advance for any typo or errors. Please report any problems in the comments. The conference website has the latest information.]
Hello,
I have a 'golden' ticket and cannot attend the LISA conference - would you happen to know anyone that might be interested in the ticket? I know it is late notice.
Regards, Katie Sarason
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