Community Notebook

LISA ’10

Article from Issue 123/2011

Author(s): Matt Simmons

“It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.” – Indiana Jones to Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Indiana Jones might be onto something. This year’s LISA conference was held in San Jose, California. And, although I traveled a long way, other attendees came from distances that dwarfed mine.

This year’s conference theme was “Uncovering the Secrets of System Administration” [1], and the décor throughout the conference was reminiscent of an Indiana Jones movie, complete with fedora-wearing conference organizers!

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