Two years ago, I felt that LOPSA was poised for growth. I was a bit early in that assessment as LOPSA was still burdened by debt that limited its ability to focus on the future. That debt is now paid off and LOPSA can focus on the future – our future as system admins. If…
There's been a change at LOPSA recently. Less talking, more doing. My name is William Bilancio and I am proud to be part of that change.
Recent accomplishments:
A few months ago, it was announced that Matt Simmons and Steve Murawski resigned from the board and a call was sent out for potential replacements. I was honored to be one of the two selected to serve until elections could be held to replace them. Background I have worked in the field…
Your never too old to learn. I took the family out to dinner yesterday and our resident hacker (my eight year old granddaughter) taught everyone at the table about a tool in Windows. My two oldest children are in the computer field and computer related field. I go to both of them when I need…
A Teaching Moment and the Hour of Code In recent blog entry I wrote abou the Sessions I attended at the reent PETE&C onference (www.peteandc.org). Since coming back from the conference I tried to get some time to sit with my granddaughter and start teaching her programming on the code.org site. I got her for…
For my Quantitative Analysis class I need to collect and analyze some survey data. Building on my question last month about what a System Administrator is, I have designed a quick survey and I would greatly appreciate help from the members of LOPSA. If you could take a few short minutes and complete…
Open Source and Young Programmers In previous entries I spoke of teaching my young Granddaughter to code. It is a bit tough keeping the attention focused but the tools work very well. I receive emails from opensource.com and this latest email highlighted Blockly. This is the engine behind the code tutorials on code.org. It is…
I think we should retire the LOPSA Gram email, and instead, spend that time putting up items on the LOPSA site. For example: It's my understanding that not everyone bothers to be on/read this email list, so there are people who don't yet know that we have two new board members. And, I wonder how…