The Large Installation System Administration 2013 conference has been announced for is coming up on November 3-8, in Washington, D.C. There’s training and speakers and all sorts of stuff, and maybe even a working government in that town by that point.
A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD.
The conference was “announced” back in February:
https://www.usenix.org/blog/lisa-13-call-participation-opens
Your wording makes it sound like the conference was sprung on everyone with only a few weeks notice. :)
Hmm, yeah. I changed the wording.