Re: Usenix board

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

"Petersen, Dwight" writes:

>  Seriously, I expect that there were
>  no women willing to serve?  Now if we're seriously concerned, perhaps the
>  thing to do would be to devote some SAGe money to developing some women in
>  SAGe to be candidates next time around.  (Of course, if were not serious we
>  can just whine and complain.)  

I'm sorry - I don't see how money has any bearing on this at all.
Evi says that the NomCom wasn't able to talk any of the women it
asked into running, but they certainly didn't ask _everyone_.  And
this is Usenix, not US politics - you don't _buy_ nominations.

Obviously I've missed your entire point.  I'd hate to see SAGE
spend money on getting folks (men or women) elected to the Usenix 
Board; I'd hate to see "women in Usenix" and "SAGE" be synonymous
in people's minds (there is an overlap, but there are non-SAGE
Usenix women, and non-female SAGE members, after all).

I would have been surprised, but not perhaps dismayed, if either
no women (*very* surprising) *or* no SAGE types (male _or_
female) were put up, but finding neither really confuses me.

--paw