There you are, confident in the ability of your custom-made melon-peel helmet to protect you from harm, when all of a sudden your boss tells you to go to Community One.

Is that why you became a sysadmin - to put on a shirt and walk around a moribund conference center decorated in inoffensive colors dodging other people who would rather be on Facebook but who like you are forced to listen to clean cut hucksters in gray business suits touting the features and benefits of products that wouldn't interest you even on your best day of manufactured enthusiasm ?

Almost feels like a Tyler Durden moment, doesn't it?

I feel your pain.

I have to be there, too.

So I looked into it.

Turns out that it's relatively suck-free.

There are A LOT of tech sessions that a sysadmin can burrow into. We combed through the event program and highlighted the ones we think you would actually enjoy...

• Technical Sessions
• Deep Dives
• Hands-on Labs

As a bonus, the room will probably be dark.

Sorry we didn't include the time and location, but that sort of thing changes too much. You can see the latest agenda here:

Agenda for Technical Sessions

If you're only interested in the OpenSolaris tracks, see the ...

OpenSolaris Tracks at CommunityOne West

If you want to see the entire events calendar, you can find it on the ...

CommunityOne Page on SDN

Mischief. Mayhem. Soap. See you there.