After a long hiatus, your UMI is back with the first of two meeting announcements. Carolyn Rowland and David Pullman will be giving us a preview of their LISA 2011 talk at 6:30 on Tuesday, Nov 15, at the AARP National Office.
Releasing 9/11 Data to Satisfy FOIA: It’s Just a Simple Web Site, Right?
David Pullman and Carolyn Rowland, NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) collected photos, videos, and other data from many sources to aid in an investigation of the collapse of the World Trade Center. Just prior to the tenth anniversary of 9/11, NIST released this data on a public Web server to meet FOIA requirements. A team of sysadmins took a winding path to hosting the data, using a combination of open source tools and the cloud. Technical and non-technical challenges threatened this project along the way.
Practical details
The RSVP link is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dFI2M25kV19aa2NuUHlBc1BFSDdKa0E6MQ
I need RSVP’s so I can provide AARP security with a list of attendees. If you have privacy concerns, it’s fine with me if Dennis Ritchie or W. Richard Stevens shows up on the RSVP list; I’m not checking IDs.
Location: Room B2-120 at the AARP National Office at 601 E St NW. Enter at the corner of of 6th and E to pick up your name tag andfurther directions.Parking: Expensive off-street. On-street parking near the National Building Museum is probably your best bet
Metro: Easy – Gallery Place Metro is one block away.
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Please do make an effort to attend. The practice of system administration moves forward through the development of tools AND practices, and we rely on the community, both physical and virtual, to develop and promulgate best practices. Carolyn and David have learned a lot in the school of hard knocks, and I expect their presentation will be of specific utility to those of us in web operations and/or government, and more widely to all of us.
I hope the discussion following the talk will be as informative as the talk itself — but we need YOU to be there for that to be realized.
Feel free to forward, blog, tweet or post this announcement as widely as you care to.
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