Member Update!

[Pat Wilson <paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu>]

SAGE members:

Hi!  Just a quick update on happenings, mostly from our Board meeting at
Usenix last month.  

"Official" bits:

The new Board (Barb Dijker <barb@usenix.org>, Paul Evans <ple@usenix.org>, 
Tim Gassaway <tgass@usenix.org>, Helen Harrison <helen@usenix.org>, Amy
Kreiling <amy@usenix.org>, Hal Miller <halm@usenix.org>, and Pat Wilson
<paw@usenix.org>) was seated and elected officers.  Hal Miller is President, 
and Tim and Barb return as secretary and treasurer, respectively.  We're 
collectively reachable as "sage-board@usenix.org".


Board meeting bits:

The new Code of Ethics (<http://www.usenix.org/sage/hypertext/code_of_ethics.html>) 
is available for perusal.  Look for the article in this month's ;login: 
about it!  We're all interested in any feedback you may have - Hal 
<halm@usenix.org> is collecting responses.

The Online committee met and announced a desire to hire a part-time "web
editor" for the SAGE web site.  This person will be charged with
implementing interesting web-based things for SAGE, as well as maintaining
the SAGE pages and co-ordinating SAGE online volunteers.  Look for the
official job posting on the SAGE web site and in comp.org.usenix
soon!

The 3rd booklet in the SAGE series, "Systems Security:  A Management
Perspective", will be mailed to members in March.  

The Board will make local group issues (organization, coordination of
services, etc) a priority this year.  Look for more on this in
the next month or two, or send us your ideas.

Amy (Kreiling <amy@usenix.org>) will be working on "Good Works" issues -
things that we can do in our community (mentoring high school students, for
example).  We're happy to entertain proposals - send 'em in (to Amy)!

We're very excited about the upcoming Large Scale Sys Admin of NT Workshop
in August.  A CFP is already out (<http://www.usenix.org/nt-sysadmin/cfp.html>);
submission deadline is March 1st (sooner than you think).  It's a workshop 
with limited attendance (rather than a full blown conference) this year, so
make sure you check out the CFP if you're dealing with NT issues
or expect to be in the next several months.  

Don't forget that the LISA '97 CFP is out!  The theme of the conference is
"Professional Development", though we're looking for all kinds of
submissions.  The conference is October 26-31 in San Diego - start bugging
you managers now for the trip!

SANS, the Systems and Network Security conference which SAGE
co-sponsors is in April, in Baltimore, MD - early registration
closes Feb 15th, so time is of the essence.  Details at http://www.sans.org, 
or they've shown up in your snail mail by now...  

Other things:

Don't forget to check the SAGE page after the first of each month for the
latest SAGE News of the Month!  Bryan MacDonald, the editor, is always
looking for tidbits to publish - reach him as bigmac@usenix.org.

Also from the SAGE site are the Services Provided by SAGE Members
(consultants, list your services here) and the Job Center (jobs wanted,
jobs offered, and (coming soon) the latest salary survey data).  Visit
often!


We hope to keep you up to date on what SAGE is doing - if you don't hear
from us often enough, drop us a line!  Remember that SAGE is
_all_ of us, and we're all only human.  If you've got a good idea
or a burning desire to do something with/for SAGE, let us all
know - send mail to sage-members@usenix.org (this list) and/or to the
Board and speak up.  Of course, if it's your idea, you get to
be Leader... but if no one has ideas, nothing gets done.

Until next time,

Pat Wilson
 for the SAGE Board