It’s been a year!
November 17th, 2006 by mhalligan
LOPSA is a great customer of ours, and was our first foray into charitable contributions. It all started September, 2005. The SAGE board had been commissioned to split away from Usenix a year before, and things started falling apart in this process. Aug 2005, I was approached by (I believe, forgive me if I’m wrong) Stephen Potter about providing infrastructure to SAGE as they split off from Usenix, to which we tentatively agreed.
Linda, Daniel & I sat down, and came up with an appropriate offer for their needs. We would provide them with two fully managed servers, and treat them like any other customer of ours, except that we would be donating the management costs. Just a couple of weeks after this had been deployed, the SAGE split-off dissolved, and we promised to let them continue using the servers until resolution, or until a new body had been formed.
The servers we provided LOPSA with were BitPusher’s standard servers, the Proliant DL145 G2 from Hewlett Packard
On November 14, 2005 LOPSA officially came to life. Since then, LOPSA has grown to a membership of over 600 members. It threw it’s first training event in November, 2006, a week ahead of it’s one-year anniversary. It supports a very active community, including several very active mailing lists, a community site and provides it’s customers with many exclusive discounts.
It’s been a great year, so far. The board & volunteers at LOPSA have been a real pleasure to work with. They’ve even referred a couple of key customers to BitPusher, for which we are ever thankful! Happy Birthday LOPSA!
