I read the announcement but there seems to be no actual reason mentioned therein, despite them going on to say how popular and friendly LISA was.
Perhaps it was too popular or too friendly? Not enough drama perhaps?
Systems engineer community laments demise of much-loved LISA conference
USENIX, the not-for-profit advanced computing association, has decided to put an end to its beloved LISA sysadmin conferences, at least as a standalone event. In an online announcement, the LISA steering committee said that after 35 years of producing the "best systems engineering content" the event "will no longer be …
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Thursday 5th August 2021 01:34 GMT Bitsminer
LISA RIP
I went to a few of these way back in the day.
It was always heartening to hear people had similar problems. And we learned a lot, mostly about attitude, customer service, approaches to problem solving, and soft-skills, not so much the technologies as everyone had different tech but common issues.
At one talk, a handful of guys supporting several thousand Unix workstations at one company described how they managed to keep it all together. Made our jobs look very small by comparison.
The venues were always great -- I think my favourite was Monterey, 1995. Or was it 1993?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
