League of Professional System Administrators
- League of Professional System Administrators
Infobox_Company
company_name = LOPSA
company_
company_type = Non-Profit
foundation = (2004)
location_city = Mount Laurel, New Jersey
location_country = USA
homepage = [http://www.lopsa.org www.lopsa.org] The League of Professional System Administrators, or LOPSA, is a non-profit organization. The organization's mission is "to advance the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues."
The corporation was created as "The System Administrators Guild, Inc.," in July 2004 by volunteers of the USENIX Association as part of a plan to spin-off its SAGE Special Technical Group into a separate organization. After the spin-off from USENIX Association was halted in November 2005, the volunteers involved in the spin-off opted to move forward as a new organization which was renamed LOPSA, and began reorganizing itself into an independent entity.
LOPSA is governed by a nine-member Board of Directors; the first Board was elected in July 2005 by the membership of SAGE. Elections for new Board members are held every two years, in June. Its headquarters are in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
Chapters and Affiliations
LOPSA fosters community through local chapters and affiliation with and support for other local groups.
LOPSA Chapters in the USA
* [http://lopsa.org/LOPSA-US-AZ Arizona]
* [http://lopsa.org/US-WI-MAD Madison, Wisconsin]
* [http://lopsa-nj.org/ New Jersey]
* [http://lopsa.org/mailman/listinfo/lopsa-us-tx-austin Austin, Texas]
LOPSA Established Affiliates
* System Administrators Guild of Ireland (Ireland)
* [http://ovsage.org/ Ottawa Valley SAGE] (Canada)
* [http://socosa.org/ Sonoma County System Administrators] (Northern California)
* [http://sasag.org/ Seattle Area System Administrators Guild] (Seattle, Washington)
Other regional system administration groups
* Americas
** Pittsburgh - [http://snapgh.org/ System and Network Administrators of Pittsburgh]
** North Carolina - [http://www.ncsysadmin.org/ North Carolina System Administrators]
** Boston - [http://www.bblisa.org/ BBLISA]
* Australia
** [http://www.sage-au.org.au/ SAGE-AU]
See also
*SAGE
External links
* [http://www.lopsa.org/ Official LOPSA website]
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