System Administrators Guild (SAGE) Board Elections

[Bryan McDonald <erg.sri.com">bigmac]

The System Administration Guild (SAGE) made its first appearance
in print in the August issue of _;login:_, and in this issue was an article
describing the current board of directors and the future boards.
Most of this information is being posted here to facilitate the 
nomination and election process and reach as much of the community
as possible.

The first fully elected board takes office in January,
1993, with their first board meeting at the Winter USENIX
conference in San Diego, California.  Current estimates indicate that
the new board will have 4 meetings a year, three at LISA and USENIX
main conferences, and a spring meeting.  At this time the board
members are responsible for travel and lodging expenses for the
meeting.  This board will be tasked with further defining the charter
and mission statements of the guild, setting the 1994 budget, and
monitoring, coordinating, and approving all the working groups
efforts.  Members of the board should expect to be spending
significant time every week in the pursuit of these goals during the
first year serving the board, after which time requirements should
begin to ease a little.  Since the board will be geographically
diverse and working on so many issues, electronic mail will probably
serve as a major conduit of information.  This is a major time and
money commitment for at least the first year.

SAGE is accepting nominations for new members of the governing board
from until October 22 at noon, PST.  Anyone interested in running for
the SAGE board should send their name and telephone number and a brief
statement to the nominating committee at the email address
sage-nominationsusenix.org.  You can also send U.S. Mail to the SAGE
Nominating Committee care of the USENIX Association.  The nominating
committee will gather the candidates' names and contact each of them
before the election takes place.

At the USENIX LISA conference in Long Beach there will be a
candidates' forum to allow prospective board members to introduce
themselves and talk about the issues.  Prospective board members
unable to make it to the LISA conference will be able to submit a
position paper to this forum.

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Bryan McDonald                   |   Computer, Hardware, And Operations Support
bigmacerg.sri.com               |                     CHAOS
Postmaster-Systems Administrator |            ITAD - SRI International
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