What occurs when the sysadmin neighborhood meets a contemporary developer motion? BayLISA and DevNet, that’s what😎!
What’s BayLISA?
BayLISA stands for Bay Space Massive Set up System Directors and is a consumer group of system and community directors from the San Francisco Bay Space. The consumer group was based within the very early Nineties after the fourth Massive Set up 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 concept was to supply a discussion board for Sysadmin professionals within the San Francisco Bay space to get collectively and alternate concepts, hear audio system handle subjects of curiosity and most significantly, socialize. The conferences are free and open to the general public. BayLISA has supported and educated methods, community, storage, virtualization, and different expertise professionals within the Bay Space for over 30 years. You could find 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 operating 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 assumed that we may collaborate in a means that’s useful for everybody. This collaboration would imply at first discovering area on the Cisco campus in San Jose the place we may run the month-to-month meetup. As a observe as much as that, we had been additionally capable of counsel audio system and be members on the BayLISA board.
We’ve had a profitable 2024, operating a number of meetups on the Cisco Campus in San Jose however for this 12 months we determined to vary location. For the foreseeable future we’ll run the meetup at 3350 Scott Blvd Constructing 54, Santa Clara, CA 95054 within the Ding Ding Studio. You need to double verify the situation 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 manage the logistics for the occasion. In addition to subjects of curiosity and improbable individuals that you would be able to work together and chat with, there’s additionally pizza and refreshments for everybody. We additionally attempt to assist individuals which might be in search of jobs or which have positions opened on their groups or of their firm by providing an area to make these vital connections and sharing info.
Stay streaming
Whereas individuals residing within the Bay Space are greater than welcome to hitch our month-to-month meetup, we all know not everybody can attend in particular person. We additionally wish to expose the data 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 Fb.
The meetup takes place on the third Thursday of the month, so be sure to save that in your calendars. We’ll even have the reside streaming periods scheduled prematurely so as to see what the subject of the session can be in addition to audio system and timing. Because the periods are recorded, you can even view the recordings on-line. For YouTube, I’ve created a playlist at this hyperlink: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?listing=PL2k86RlAekM_r-_3uDdU4P2o4kLRF6VnB. You may 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 Trendy Period.
Whether or not you’re a Bay Space native or tuning in from afar, observe DevNet in your favourite platform to remain plugged into methods and community administration.
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