Video blogging was a lot of fun for the USENIX/LISA09 conference, although it would’ve been smoother with a staff or a volunteer to handle/help with uploading files. Especially with the awful conference bandwidth.

The quality of the speakers/presenters was truly amazing. Trainings, workshops and tutorials were seriously useful from the first to last minute of each session. Many sessions were more participatory, with attendees sharing experiences as to how they handle the tough issues in system administration.

Please check out the conference video blogging from both myself and Marah Rosenberg:

I interview several presenters/trainers, while Marah focusses mostly on pieces from attendees. There is some sheer silliness as well- really captured the true LISA experience, imo.

We had a lot of fun at the conference, as bloggers and attendees alike tried to scoop each other with relevant quotes from plenary and other sessions, mid-session, on Twitter (I usually did this from my cellphone’s numeric keyboard in T9). Feel free to take a look at my tweetstream (serendipitousP), or that of Matt Simmons (standaloneSA), or search for #LISA09 – there were several people contributing to this race for short tidbits of information.

There are also several people sharing pictures from the conference at http://www.flickr.com/groups/lisa09/ . Enjoy!

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