board mtg. minutes

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 Minutes of the SAGE Interim Board on June 23, 1992 at SRI, Menlo Park, CA
 
 Attendees:  Elizabeth Zwicky, Bjorn Satdeva, 
             Arnold de Leon, Laura Kirk de Leon,
             Paul Evans, Shoshana Abrass, Arch Mott
             Tina Darmohray, Bryan McDonald, John Detke
 
 Via phone: Steve Simmons, Pat Wilson
 
 Absent:  Paul M.
 
 1)  Approval of the minutes
 
         This was not done.
 
 2)  Summary of San Antonio
 
 	EDZ provided a summary of the the Sunday USENIX board meeting.
 	She said that the end results were that the USENIX board passed
 	a series of resolutions to get SAGE "launched".
 
 	The outstanding issue in this area is that the two Pres.s and the
 	2 Treas.s from USENIX and SAGE must resolve the differences 
 	between the SAGE Bylaws and the USENIX STG Policy.
 
 	The BOF summary resulted in the feeling that any BOF held
 	at USENIX/LISA might be "better" in that it might be more
 	specifically publicized.
 
 	The summary of the Sat. meeting was consistent with the
 	meeting notes that have been previously posted.  It was
 	noted that the majority of the time at the Sat. meeting
 	was spent on organizational issue, rather than Charter-type
 	issues.
 
 3)  Status of Committees
 
 	It was noted that the Sat. meeting resulted in some
 	new WGs.  
 
 	A discussion was had about the fact that WGs can decide
 	their on fate in that they can propose a possible course
 	of action, or decide that no action should be taken in
 	that area.
 
 	*Bjorn will call Janet Fraser about the emphasis on
 	the standards WG.  As it is currently stated, it is
 	probably inverted.
 
 	Mailing lists:
 
 	SAGE mailing lists are going onto usenix-org this
 	afternoon.  The WG lists are "open" subscription by
 	default.  sw and heads of WGs will be a straight alias.
 	The sage mailing list will be SAGE members.
 
 	*Elizabeth will see that a SAGE-only announcement
 	goes out on comp.org.usenix and is cross-posted
 	to appropriate groups.
 
 	*Bjorn will get together with Brent on moving
 	the existing sage mailing lists to usenix.
 
 
 	Newsletter:
 
 	Steve is doing some book reviews.
 	Paul E. is going the Sat. meeting summary.
 
 	It was decided that SAGE Board nomination 
 	information be included in the Newsletter 
 	and that the instructions would be to send email to 
 	sage-nominations or surface mail to USENIX
 	nominating yourself and giving your email
 	and surface mail address.
 
 	It was also decided that Bryan would include
 	some description of what a SAGE board member
 	would do (although it isn't entirely certain
 	at this point since no one has done *this* 
 	part before).  He will also mention the 
 	likely commitments that the new Board member
 	would have like:
 
 		quarterly meetings
 		travel costs
 		phone costs (for phone meetings)
 		time commitment each week
 		email connectivity seems necessary
 	
 	
 	There will be a candidates forum at USENIX/LISA.
 	People can be represented by proxy.
 
 	*Bjorn will contact Judy/Trent to let them know about
 	the candidate forum and request a room
 
 4)  Difference in USENIX STG and SAGE Bylaws How to resolve them
 
 	SAGE will need to have an opinion on how we'd like
 	the differences to be resolved.  The documents have
 	been handed out.
 
 
 5)  MISC
 
	We agreed to "post" the approved minutes to the sage 
	mailing list.

 	*John will ask Ellie for the USENIX budget guidelines
 	as the Interim Board will be responsible for setting
 	up next year's budget.
 
 	Interim Board meetings will be every other week
 	(a uniform and audible sigh of relief was heard).
 
 	Paul E. has been had an offer from a publisher to
 	publish the SAGE Newsletter.  
 	
 	John has had an attorney offer to help SAGE.

	It was decided that we don't need the publishing or
	legal help at this time.  We will thank them for
	their interest and let them know that we will keep
	their offers in mind.
 
6)  Action Items 
 
 	*Bjorn will call Janet Fraser about the emphasis on
 	the standards WG.  As it is currently stated, it is
 	probably inverted.

 	*Elizabeth will see that a SAGE-only announcement
 	goes out on comp.org.usenix and is cross-posted
 	to appropriate groups.
 
 	*Bjorn will get together with Brent on moving
 	the existing sage mailing lists to usenix.
 
 	*Bjorn will contact Judy/Trent to let them know about
 	the candidate forum and request a room
 			
 	*John will ask Ellie for the USENIX budget guidelines
 	as the Interim Board will be responsible for setting
 	up next year's budget.

Submitted by:  Tina Darmohray