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 Giant 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 Nineteen Nineties after the fourth Giant 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 trade 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 know-how professionals within the Bay Space for over 30 years. You’ll 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 folks have 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 yr hiatus from operating the month-to-month meetups, Ron was getting again to in-person occasions. At Cisco DevNet we have been 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 have been additionally in a position to recommend 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 yr we determined to alter 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. It’s best to double verify the situation of the meetup at https://www.meetup.com/baylisa simply in case and in addition please RSVP at this hyperlink in order that we all know that you just plan on becoming a member of us in order that we will higher set up the logistics for the occasion. Moreover subjects of curiosity and improbable folks that you may work together and chat with, there’s additionally pizza and refreshments for everybody. We additionally attempt to assist folks which are in search of jobs or which have positions opened on their groups or of their firm by providing an area to make these necessary connections and sharing info.
Stay streaming
Whereas folks residing within the Bay Space are greater than welcome to affix our month-to-month meetup, we all know not everybody can attend in individual. 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 you save that in your calendars. We’ll even have the reside streaming classes scheduled upfront so that you could see what the subject of the session might be in addition to audio system and timing. Because the classes 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?listing=PL2k86RlAekM_r-_3uDdU4P2o4kLRF6VnB. You possibly 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 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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