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Subject: Board Meeting Summary
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Date: 24 Jul 92 19:17:17 GMT
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Board Meeting Summary
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by Ellie Young
Executive Director


Below is a summary of the actions taken at the
regular quarterly meeting of the USENIX Board of
Directors held in San Antonio, Texas, on June 7,
1992.

Attendance

Rick Adams, Ed Gould, Rob Kolstad, Kirk McKu-
sick, Sharon Murrel, Evi Nemeth, Michael D.
O'Dell, Barry Shein, Ellie Young, Judy DesHar-
nais, Dan Klein, Eric Allman, Tom Christiansen,
Peter Collinson, Diane DeMartini, Lori Grob,
Steve Johnson, Greg Rose, Elizabeth Zwicky

Summer `92 Conference

Adams reported that everything seemed to be on
track. DesHarnais said that attendance from Cal-
ifornia was below normal, and total attendance
would be 1,050. Klein noted that for this confer-
ence, the ratio between the number of tutorial
seats sold to overall conference attendance is
higher than in the past. It was suggested that he
look into the feasibility of adding continuing edu-
cation credit for tutorials.

Microkernel Workshop

Grob would submit a proposal for another event
in the future, with half-day tutorials on different
systems, with consideration that it be located next
to SEDMS next Fall.

File Systems Workshop

Nemeth reported that the technical quality was
good, the sessions were well-attended, Peter
Honeyman did an excellent job, and the Ann
Arbor site was good but difficult to get to. There
was discussion that this event should have been
called a a symposium. It was decided that in the
future that a limited-attendance event (e.g.,
requiring position papers) be called a workshop.

Chair for Winter `94 Conference

Young said she had received two proposals (one
from Jeff Mogul and another from Clement Cole).
It was suggested that Cole's proposal might be
better as a workshop because of its timeliness,
and Young was asked to discuss this possibility
with him. It was decided to accept Mogul's pro-
posal to chair this conference.

BOFs Screening

It was decided that screening BOFs for technical
content was no longer necessary.

Book Program

 O'Dell and Young reported that Jim Waldo had
agreed to serve as editor for the USENIX papers
on C++, and Simon Kenyon would serve as editor
of a series on kernel technology. There were sev-
eral other projects in the works, and they hoped
to have at least four titles to launch this series
next year, with MIT Press as the publisher.

IR Report

Collinson announced that he would be stepping
down as the USENIX Institutional Representative
after the October `93 POSIX meeting, and offered
to assist in the hiring of a replacement. Collinson
would publish a request for proposals and field
questions concerning the position in the coming
months. A committee of Allman, McKusick, and
Collinson would review the proposals and make
a recommendation to the Board at the next meet-
ing.

Policies

It was decided to add another section to the cur-
rent attendee list that is sorted by zip code so that
people can locate others who are geographically
close. It was decided to postpone making a deci-
sion on having the list available online until the
data from the attendee survey was available.
Murrel's proposed document (replacing Sections
6.2 and 6.3 of the current policies document)
which would divide the Association's accounts
into two funds, thereby making them easier to
manage, was accepted.

Honorary Membership

It was agreed to make Lew Law our second hon-
orary lifetime member.

STGs/SAGE

It was decided to adopt Adams' SIG proposal
document with three amendments. The first
amendment clarifies that 1) USENIX has complete
responsibility for the LISA conferences, 2) that all
members of the SIGs must be members of USENIX,
and 3) that the name SIG is changed to STG (Spe-
cial Technical Group).


It was agreed to adopt Johnson's amended reso-
lution creating SAGE as an STG, as follows:

1. That the USENIX Association launch a special
technical group to be known as USENIX/SAGE
(Systems Administrators' Guild). This organiza-
tion will engage in education, develop standards
of excellence, recognize those who attain such
standards, and promote work and propagate
knowledge that advances the systems adminis-
tration profession.

2. That the USENIX Association further appoint
an interim governing board for USENIX/SAGE,
consisting of:

Shoshana Abrass,
Tina Darmohray, Secretary
Arnold deLeon
John F. Detke, Treasurer
Paul Evans
Laura deLeon
Bryan McDonald, Publisher
Paul M. Moriarty
Arch Mott
Bjorn Satdeva
Steve Simmons
Pat Wilson
Elizabeth Zwicky, President

3. That the USENIX Association immediately
accept membership applications to be a member
of SAGE. The pro-rated dues for the remainder of
1992 will be $25. All SAGE members will also
have to be USENIX members.

4. That the USENIX Association will administer an
election for a 9-member SAGE board, said election
being concluded so that the new board can take
office after the 1992 LISA conference.

5. That the 1992 LISA conference base price will
reflect the cost for SAGE members. USENIX mem-
bers who are not SAGE members may check a box
which adds $25 to the cost and makes them SAGE
members. People who are neither USENIX or
SAGE members check a box which makes them
members of both organizations.

6. That the Executive Director establish a mem-
bership category for SAGE membership, and
maintain office services (such as mailing lists and
financial accounting) for SAGE as well as USENIX.
Moreover, the Executive Director will ensure that
SAGE and the SAGE board members are covered
by liability insurance.

7. That the USENIX board will appoint a formal
liaison to the SAGE board, expecting that the
SAGE board will likewise appoint a USENIX board
liaison.

8. For the 1994 LISA conference, the program chair
for LISA will be picked by a four person commit-
tee, two members of which will be appointed by
the SAGE board and two members by the USENIX
board. This committee will also work with the
USENIX Tutorial Administrator to ensure rele-
vant, high quality tutorials at LISA.

9. That a regular section of ;login: will be devoted
to material collected and submitted by SAGE. For
the remainder of 1992, USENIX will fund up to
eight additional pages of material per issue,
assuming that the material is forthcoming. Fur-
thermore, should the amount of material grow
considerably, USENIX will plan to establish a
SAGE newsletter in the future.

10. That the USENIX Association recognizes that
financial issues have the potential to become a
major block to easy cooperation with SAGE, and
that the key to avoiding these problems is open-
ness in our financial dealings and mutual striving
for a fair allocation of resources. For the remain-
der of 1992, USENIX will pay for the SAGE elec-
tion, board expenses, legal and liability expenses
(if any), the cost of administering SAGE member-
ship, and additional ;login: pages. In turn, USENIX
will collect the SAGE interim dues. The SAGE
board will submit a proposed budget for the fis-
cal 1993 year to the USENIX Board at their fall
meeting, including a proposal for 1993 SAGE dues
and membership estimates. The final budget will
be established by the USENIX board in consulta-
tion with those members of the SAGE board so
designated. We expect at that time that desig-
nated members of the SAGE board will have sig-
nature authority over the budgeted amounts.

11. That a committee be struck consisting of the
Presidents and Treasurers of both USENIX and
SAGE and the USENIX Executive Director to refine
the SAGE Bylaws and the USENIX Special Techni-
cal Group Policy to bring them into agreement.

12. The USENIX Board will conduct a progress
review in September of 1993.

Kolstad was delegated to be the USENIX repre-
sentative at the first SAGE meeting, and Chris-
tiansen would be the longer term representative.

It was also agreed to allocate $6,000 in the budget
for the SAGE STG for fiscal year 1992.