SysAdmin 3.0: The Infrastructure Engineer -- Mark Burgess of CFEngine

BayLISA welcomes Mark Burgess, founder of CFEngine.com, for our January 2012 meeting. On the tail of his presentation at LISA '11 in Boston in December, Dr Burgess will be giving us an update on the state of IT automation and CFEngine in particular. More details to come.

Mark Burgess is the creator and main technical architect of the popular CFEngine open source IT automation software. He was the first person internationally to hold the title of 'Professor of Network and System Administration', at Oslo University College. He now leads the research and development of the CFEngine software full time.

We also thank CFEngine.com for sponsoring the January 2012 meeting and supporting BayLISA's operation. http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/9/4/0/event_65339712.jpeg (http://www.cfengine.com/)

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BayLISA is the premiere system administration organization for Silicon Valley and the entire San Francisco Bay Area. For over two decades we have served the sysadmin community with education and networking opportunities around current and rising topics in systems, networks, software, and the profession of system administration.

In 2011 we presented talks and demos on next-generation networking, release engineering, package management, dynamic tracing, FreeNAS and PC-BSD, security, post-cloud system administration, high volume email architecture, and open source storage and computing platforms.

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