[Lilug] Something to read while we hunt around for a speaker

[odinson]

Thanks.  :)

Yup they are at it again.  Just 'automation' is a pale imitation of 
improvements in organizational workflow.  The latter leads to the former 
but it's not reversible.

Matt

On Mon, 8 May 2017, Robert Wilkens wrote:

> If i got nothing else out of your paper, i loved reading this one sentence
> at the beginning:
>
> By clinging to the nomenclature of automation (as least as old as the water
> mill) as a complete stand in for a social phenomenon, organizations
> undermine their own efforts.
>
> I remember back in the mid 1990s i was working for New York City Civil
> Court (Manhattan), in the IT Department, except the signs posted around the
> department kept calling it the 'automation' department.  I kept wondering
> what they planned on automating!  Was their goal to have the judges
> replaced by computers which hear the cases and do all the research and
> maybe pop up their decision on screen in an efficient manner or something?
>
> Don't think it would be wise for me to volunteer...   It's hard enough
> right now to get myself to even attend, never mind stand and talk.
>
> I mean, yes, about 10 years ago (2007) i did volunteer for two lectures at
> LIPHP where all i did was (a few days before) read and make slides from a
> book on PHP certification, then try to talk like an expert -- the second
> talk when it became obvious i knew next to nothing about the specifics of
> regular expressions, that's when things felt kind of awkward - yeah, at
> least on that topic the audience knew more than i did :-).
>
> On a bright note, doing that, i learned enough to get certified at the
> time.  Not that i did anything with it.
>
> -Rob
>
> ---
> Sent from Tablet
>
> On May 7, 2017 12:52 PM, "odinson" <odinson at warcloud.net> wrote:
>
>> Hey all
>>
>>         Did a writeup on the 'why' of devops.
>>
>> https://civgene.matthewnewhall.com/archives/1452
>>
>>         If you feel inspired please volunteer for a talk.  :)
>>
>> Matt
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Matthew Newhall, M.A.Newhall at warcloud.net
A.S. in Computer Science, SUNY Farmingdale
President and founder of LILUG;  president at lilug.org, http://www.lilug.org
My theory; Psychopaths precede the conscience, http://civgene.matthewnewhall.com
My maker blog; "The modness", http://themodness.wordpress.com
Scifi book; "Thicker Than Blood"  http://www.thickerthanbloodthebook.com
Giselle's husband, Sebastian and Maxximus's father.
http://www.warcloud.net/~odinson/us/
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not
as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
-- John Steinbeck
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