[SATLUG] need help...everything is popping up Linux!

[Brad Knowles]

On 8/31/07, Hector Bojorquez wrote:

>  Is everyone here very stoned.. or so independently wealthy that they can
>  scoff at job offers?

If you're that hard up for work, then please do subscribe to all the 
relevant mailing lists in a hundred mile radius (or greater), where 
job postings would be appropriate to the list in question.

This would certainly include the ALG lists at 
<http://austinlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo>, the CTLUG lists at 
<http://www.ctlug.org/ctlug_list.html>, the Austin Linux Enthusiasts 
list at <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/GWLUG/>, the Austin Linux 
Meetup Group at <http://linux.meetup.com/85/?gj=sj10>, and related 
groups in the area like CACTUS (Capital Area/Central Texas Unix 
Society) at <http://www.cactus.org/> and LOPSA-Austin (Austin Chapter 
of the League of Professional Unix System Administrators, see 
<http://lopsa.org/mailman/listinfo/lopsa-us-tx-austin>), among others.

Heck, you could even check out the Austin Sun Users Group (see 
<http://www.austinsug.org/>), because many shops have a mix of 
machines, and given the aggressive stance that Sun has taken towards 
moving everything they do towards Free/Libre/Open-Source Software, it 
would be a really good idea to at least keep tabs on them.

Then there's the Austin chapter of the Storage Networking User Group 
(see 
<http://www.storagenetworking.org/User_Groups/snug_profile.asp?id=184>) 
which is going to be having their first official meeting on October 
12th, but has already had their first Founders meeting, and looks to 
be ramping up to pretty high speed on some highly interesting 
subjects.  So far as I know, they're OS-agnostic, but of course a 
large percentage of their systems are likely to be Linux, just 
because of the long-term penetration of that part of the market.

I'm sure there are other groups in the area that I'm overlooking, 
these are just the ones that roll off the top of my head.


A single job spam to a list of LUG members over a hundred miles away 
is nothing to get excited about.  There's no need to go all "Happy, 
Happy, Joy, Joy!" just because you actually managed to land a real 
live honest-to-goodness job spam message via the list.

Getting hooked into other related groups in nearby areas and learning 
about multiple job opportunities as they come up (almost always from 
principals as opposed to recruiters), now that would be something to 
get excited about.


For example, I recently had an interview for a Sr. Architect position 
at Coremetrics, where they have over a petabyte of data on high-speed 
rotating storage, and routinely saturate their 4Gb FCSW network for 
extended periods of time, have a world-wide clientele of some of the 
biggest names in the business, and they have many, many more 
interesting things going on behind closed doors.

They ended up hiring someone else, but I got a good look at some 
fascinating work that is going on here in Austin that I never had the 
slightest clue was going on.

And I never would have even gotten to talk to these guys, if I hadn't 
cast my net widely and sent out feelers to various different people 
in all the local groups that I know of.

-- 
Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org>
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