Summary of actions taken at SAGE Board of Directors meetings - 1994

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For the benefit of the SAGE membership, here is a brief summary of the
actions taken by the SAGE board of directors at their meetings and 
teleconferences in 1994.  If you have questions for the board about these
or other issues, feel free to contact us at sage-boardusenix.org.

Paul Evans, SAGE Secretary

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Summary of the Actions Taken at the SAGE Board of Directors Meetings - 1994

January 20, 1994 meeting

It was decided that the sage mailing list would be 
restricted to members only and that the sage-announce
mailing list would be available to all subscribers.

The Board decided to solicit proposals for appointing
a SAGE standards representative to attend meetings on
SAGE's behalf.

March 1994

The working groups sage-conf, sage-robbies, and sage-pr 
were disbanded, and sage-outreach and sage-pt were 
made into discussion groups.

It was decided to develop a sage-jobs-offered mailing
list and that Pat Wilson would be reponsible for 
monitoring the postings.

April 1994

It was suggested that Shoshana Abrass be asked to chair 
head the sage-ethics working group.

It was decided to add a member services page to the
SAGE WWW server allowing members to advertise products
and services. 

Ron Hall became the new chair to the sage-edu working group.

June. 1994

It was decided that nominating committee members
are not be eligible to run for office for the SAGE board.

It was decided that SAGE would again co-sponsor the SANS 
Conference in cooperation with Fed UNIX to be held in 
Washington DC in Spring 1995.

The subcommittee's recommendation to accept from Darmohray 
and Evans to co-chair LISA '95 was accepted.

It was decided that a copy of each new SAGE publication would
be sent to all current members at the time of its release.

It was decided that future Open Board meetings beginning
with New Orleans would be conducted as BoFs.

It was decided that Larry Wall would be the recipient
of the 1994 SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award.

July 1994

Brent Chapman had indicated that due to time constraints,
he would have to step down as the SAGE postmaster.  The
postition has since been filled by Scott Seebass, who is
the system administrator for the Association's executive
office.

September 1994

It was decided to investigate the possibility of developing
an on-line resource center which would consist of a forum
for discussion as well as tools and techniques for system
administrators.

The SAGE locals groups document was accepted by the Board.

It was decided to investigate translating the SAGE Jobs
for System Administrators booklet into French and Swedish

Greg Rose would replace Tom Christiansen as the USENIX
board liaison to SAGE.

The SAGE/USENIX track at UniForum was slated for a Sunday/Monday 
time slot, offering three to six tutorials.

It was decided that future LISA program committee's
would meet to delirate on selection of papers at the
Association's offices in May.

October 1994

Sage-security was changed into a discussion group.