<p>I used to belong to both sage and lopsa, but haven't kept up my dues.<br>
Lopsa was a breakoff group from sage. There were plenty of reasons for the split (i am sure you can find discussion threads out there.)<br>
Some were political, but one of the reasons I supported it at the time was that the lopsa folks wanted to focus on defining sysadmin as a job role and defining best practices. While the sage group of usenix encompasses this, they have/had a strong emphasis on on compsci and research. <br>
I never really got much out of either group beyond the info and recommendations from fellow admins on the mailing lists. </p>
<p>-Jeff<br>
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<p><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 20, 2010 12:23 PM, "Todd Walton" <<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Anyone ever heard of <a href="http://lopsa.org" target="_blank">http://lopsa.org</a> ?<br>
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What sysadmin related organizations are you a member of? Beyond the<br>
"about" page, what benefit do you get from it?<br>
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Todd<br>
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