Professional Development

The Approach

The Approach describes how we allocate professional development resources as fairly as we can.

DLP - Collection of CSCF Books

The Distributed Library Project works to share the many technical books/media we have.

Training

• IST Professional Development Seminars - most Fridays 9am, MC 2009
• UW Continuing Education
• Career Development
• UW Organizational & Human Development
• SANS - The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute
• SEW - Skills for the Electronic Workplace - IST
• LyndaCourses - free for campus staff

Blogs

Higher Education

• CIO Queen's University - Bo Wandschneider

Linux

Mac

Windows

Security

Conferences

Annual Technical Conferences

Higher Education

• CANHEIT - The Canadian Higher Education IT Conference
  • 2018: June 18-21, 2018, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
  • 2017: http://www.cuccio.net/en/events/canheit.html June 13-16, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
  • 2016: June 19-22, 2016 Edmonton, AB
  • 2011: McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, June 5-8, 2011
  • 2010: Memorial University, St. John's, NL June 13-16, 2010
  • 2009: 2009 - Montreal June 7-10, 2009
• OUCC - The Ontario University Computing Conference -> Now OHEIT - Ontario Higher Education IT
  • 2018: May 22-24 Laurentian College, Sudbury, ON
  • 2017: ??
  • 2016: [[https://web.wlu.ca/oucc/][Laurier, May 9, 10, 2016]
  • 2015: Trent University May 3-5, 2015
  • 2014: University of Windsor
  • 2011: McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, June 5-8, 2011
  • 2010: http://2010.oucc.ca/ May 30-June 1, 2010, Carleton University

• EduCause , The EduCAUSE Library
  • 2017:
  • 2016: Oct. 25-28, 2016 Anaheim, CA
  • ...
  • 2011: Philadelphia October 18-21

Specific Technology

Apple

• MacAdmins
  • 2018: Mac Admins Conference 2018 July 10 – 13, 2017, Penn State University
  • 2017: Mac Admins Conference 2017 July 11 – 14, 2017, Penn State University
  • 2016: Mac Admins Conference 2016 June 27-30, 2016, Penn State University
    • Call for Proposals open now
• MacWorld - Done as of 2014
  • 2011: Macworld 2011: Conference January 26-29, Expo January 27-29 San Francisco CA
• WWDC - Apple World Wide Developers Conference
  • 2017:
  • 2016: June 13-17, 2016, San Francisco
  • 2010: June 7-11, 2010 San Francisco

HPC

• HPCS (Canada) - June
  • 2017: June 5-9, 2017, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
  • 2016: June 19-22, 2016 - Edmonton AB
• GTC: GPU Technical Conference - April/May
  • 2017: May 8 -11, 2017, Silicon Valley, CA
  • 2016: April 14-16, 2016, Las Vegas - highlights

Unix/Linux

• Usenix conference schedule
• LISA - the Large Installation System Administration conference
  • 2018: October 29–31, 2018, Nashville, TN
  • 2017: October 29–November 3, 2017, San Francisco, CA
  • 2016: December 4-9, 2016, Boston, MA
  • 2015: November 8-13, 2015, Washington DC
  • 2014: November 9-14, Seattle WA
  • 2011: December 4–9, Boston, MA
  • 2010: LISA '10: November 7–12, San Jose CA - registration August 2010, discount before October 18
  • 2009: LISA: November 1–6, 2009, Baltimore, MD
• Usenix Annual Technical Conference
  • 2016: June 22-26, Denver CO
  • 2010: Usenix Federated Conference Week, June 22-25, 2010, Boston MA
• LinuxCon North America - Aug 22-24, 2016, Toronto

UW

• WatITis
  • 2016: Dec. 6, 2016 in the Science Teaching Complex
  • 2015: Dec. 7, 2015
  • 2014: Dec. 3, 2014
• UW Staff Conference - April 6/7, 2016

Attended - notes

• UW Staff Conference 2018
• WatITis2016
• MacAdmins2016 - Penn State University, June 27 - 30 (Ed, Stephen, Devon, Dani)
• ARUCC2016 - Association of Registrars of Universities and Colleges of Canada - Vancouver (Isaac)
• CanHeitHPCS2016 - University of Alberta, Edmonton - June 19-22, 2016 (Lori, Omar, Lawrence)
• WatITis2013
• LISA2010 - Attendee notes for the LISA 2010 conference
• AppleConnect2010
• AppleAC409
• Apple WWDC08 - Attendee Notes from Ian and Ed
• OntarioUniversitiesComputingConference2005
• LisaNovember2004