July means many things to many people, but here at OpenDNS it means just one thing — System Administrator Appreciation Month!
This year we’re throwing a big bash to show our appreciation for you. If you live in the San Francisco area — or want to come to San Francisco for the event — join us at DNA Lounge on Wednesday, July 29. There’ll be good people, good music and good drinks. We even have some surprises for you up our sleeves. 
Register for the party here. Admission is free. We hope to see you there!
In parting, thanks to SysAdminDay.com for these words. If they strike home, we really hope to see you in San Francisco:
A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went wrong. All to serve this webpage.
A sysadmin installed the routers, laid the cables, configured the networks, set up the firewalls, and watched and guided the traffic for each hop of the network that runs over copper, fiber optic glass, and even the air itself to bring the Internet to your computer. All to make sure the webpage found its way from the server to your computer.
A sysadmin makes sure your network connection is safe, secure, open, and working. A sysadmin makes sure your computer is working in a healthy way on a healthy network. A sysadmin takes backups to guard against disaster both human and otherwise, holds the gates against security threats and crackers, and keeps the printers going no matter how many copies of the tax code someone from Accounting prints out.
A sysadmin worries about spam, viruses, spyware, but also power outages, fires and floods.
When the email server goes down at 2 AM on a Sunday, your sysadmin is paged, wakes up, and goes to work.
A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work — to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality.
So if you can read this, thank your sysadmin — and know he or she is only one of dozens or possibly hundreds whose work brings you the email from your aunt on the West Coast, the instant message from your son at college, the free phone call from the friend in Australia, and this [blog].
K.Vasu
beautiful
posted on July 7th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
David O'Connell
Have a great day on July 29th, we all deserve it!
Wish I could make it, but I’ll be 6000 miles away.
posted on July 9th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Dave
/cheer
I wish I could make it, but I have an Exchange server that is begging to be implemented.
I’ll be there in spirit!
posted on July 9th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Matt Jacob
Too bad—the week after I’ll be in SF!
posted on July 9th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Slayer_X
Dave:
You are doing wrong! Exchange = FAIL install a real mailserver like Exim or Postfix
posted on July 10th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Frank
Fantastic! I will be 3000 miles and cannot make the party.
posted on July 12th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Ivan
I just started a fund raising to try and be there LoL.
have a great one for me guys 
Has im 8617.000km away
But if i still cant make it i will be there in mind
posted on July 15th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Ron Humphrey
Sorry i can make it, but i am in Kentucky putting out the fires in our IT Dept. I will take a raincheck.
posted on July 16th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Binh
Can’t make it. I’ll be floating down the Ottawa River in a raft instead; but have fun.
Would be great to organize Toronto or New York event. Don’t forget SAN and storage admins (maybe snubbed due to the SANs lack of DNS usage?). We’re people too!
posted on July 16th, 2009 at 11:39 am
adrian
whoohoo for us system administrators! too bad I have a network to monitor and computers to keep online.
posted on July 17th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Matt Simmons
I wanted to let everyone reading this who is located in the northeast that I’m hosting a SysAdmin Meetup on SysAdmin Appreciation Day (July 31st) at Under the Volcano in New York City.
More information can be found here:
http://www.standalone-sysadmin.com/blog/sysadmin-day-get-together/
posted on July 17th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Matt
Maybe you should provide an Internet connection in order for us to remotely watch over our burning computers while we’re partying. Whats more it wouldn’t seam anti-social because if everyone there is a good admin, then everyone will be doing it. - Or maybe thats just my mad logic.
I would be there if i could, but im some 3000km away in the UK!. we never get any fun opportunities in the uk! =/
-Speakersrock
posted on July 18th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Rahmat
Happy SysAdmin day
posted on July 23rd, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Arren
Great… Finally we have a our own day for sysadmin…
posted on July 25th, 2009 at 5:02 am
David
Have a wonderful party!!! Unfortunately I’m in the wrong state!
posted on July 26th, 2009 at 6:26 am
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posted on July 27th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Frank Rizzo
I am about a mile away and I won’t be attending. Party like a sysadmin ? Wow, that’s gotta be a killer party …
Ya no thanks ..
posted on July 27th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Allison Rhodes
@Frank - Ah, come on! It’ll be fun. The whole OpenDNS team will be there and we’re giving away some cool stuff.
Hope you can make it!
posted on July 27th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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posted on July 27th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Ben
There is a sysadmin day?! Awesome! Sadly cant come, different country… and the pager never sleeps….
posted on July 27th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
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posted on July 27th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Daniel Nisbet
[…] This is a pretty good summary of what my job is (for those who sleeplessly wonder). A sysadmin unpacked the server for this website from its box, installed an operating system, patched it for security, made sure the power and air conditioning was working in the server room, monitored it for stability, set up the software, and kept backups in case anything went wrong. All to serve this webpage. A sysadmin installed the routers, laid the cables, configured the networks, set up the firewalls, and watched and guided the traffic for each hop of the network that runs over copper, fiber optic glass, and even the air itself to bring the Internet to your computer. All to make sure the webpage found its way from the server to your computer. A sysadmin makes sure your network connection is safe, secure, open, and working. A sysadmin makes sure your computer is working in a healthy way on a healthy network. A sysadmin takes backups to guard against disaster both human and otherwise, holds the gates against security threats and crackers, and keeps the printers going no matter how many copies of the tax code someone from Accounting prints out. A sysadmin worries about spam, viruses, spyware, but also power outages, fires and floods. When the email server goes down at 2 AM on a Sunday, your sysadmin is paged, wakes up, and goes to work. A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks, fixes, pushes, advocates, protects and creates good computer networks, to get you your data, to help you do work — to bring the potential of computing ever closer to reality. So if you can read this, thank your sysadmin — and know he or she is only one of dozens or possibly hundreds whose work brings you the email from your aunt on the West Coast, the instant message from your son at college, the free phone call from the friend in Australia, and this [blog]. […]
posted on July 28th, 2009 at 4:03 am
Mark
Too bad I am too busy implementing openDNS for ALL of my clients and I’m in NJ…but I hope you guys and gals have fun
posted on July 28th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Michael T. Halligan
Hey David, it’s your birthday!
We gonna party, like it’s your birthday!
We gonna sip bicardi, like it’s your birthday!
*oomph oomph oomph*
posted on July 29th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Doug Spindler
Is this a prank? SysAdmin appreaction day is Friday, July 31 NOT Wednesday July 29th.
www.sysadminday.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Administrator_Appreciation_Day
Both list the date as Friday July 31.
posted on July 29th, 2009 at 10:09 am