I mentioned briefly in my last post that I was asked to serve as the USENIX blog team lead at the LISA conference this year, in San Jose, California. I’m happy to announce that there are two open positions on the blogging team, and to fill them, I’m soliciting applications starting now.

Who I’m looking for:

IT Admins (sysadmin, storage admin, network admin, etc) who maintain a regular blog, column, or otherwise regular periodic written presentation.

Additional emphasis will be placed on applicants who have experience with multimedia broadcasts (podcasting, vodcasting, etc) and/or live blogging.

Ideally, you would be active in social media (LinkedIn, twitter/friendfeed/whatever), and have existing followers who would be as interested in LISA as you are.

What’s in it for you:

Free admission to the LISA 2010 Conference in San Jose, California (value: typically several hundred dollars)

One (1) free training course (value: to be decided later, by whoever makes up those prices)

Credits on conference program as a blog team member (value: priceless, depending on who wants to see your previously published writing)

Your responsibilities:

2 blog entries per day during the conference

We’re going to be at the biggest gathering of system administrators in the world. It’s going to be crazy busy, but we’re going there in order to share the experience and pass along the information that we take in. That requires writing to share our experiences with people who can’t be there with us.

We’re going to be at the biggest gathering of system administrators in the world. It’s going to be crazy busy, but we’re going there in order to share the experience and pass along the information that we take in. That requires writing to share our experiences with people who can’t be there with us. Ideally, I would like to see two entries per day; one talking about the morning, and another after the end of the day. That is a lot of writing, though, so a longer entry that covers the entire day would be acceptable to me.

The end result is that I want everyone to pull their own weight. More so, I want people who are excited to go and write about it, because then it’ll be a non-issue.

At the same time, I’d like you to be microblogging using twitter (or whatever platform you’ve used to build your base) to share things as they happen. The hashtag is #LISA10 and people around the world will be following it with baited breath, so to speak. It’s our job to make it interesting.

You physically being in San Jose, California from November 7th — 10th

What I need from you:

An email, expressing your interest to be on the team. The email should include a link to your online presence(s), along with your social media accounts that you would be using for LISA10. Also, please include an example of the sort of writing you would be producing at LISA10, or direct me to it online.