- SAGE (organization)
SAGE is the
USENIX Special Interest Group for Sysadmins, an international nonprofit professional association ofsystem administrator s.SAGE describes itself thus:
Its goal is to serve the system administration community by:
- Offering conferences and training to enhance the technical and managerial capabilities of members of the profession
- Promoting activities that advance the state of the art or the community
- Providing tools, information, and services to assist system administrators and their organizations
- Establishing standards of professional excellence and recognizing those who attain them. [http://www.sage.org/about/ SAGE, The USENIX Special Interest Group for Sysadmins] ]
Until November 2003, SAGE was known as the System Administrators Guild.
Major activities
* Co-sponsors (with
USENIX ) the annual system administration conference, LISA.
* Hosts several technical and professional mailing lists.
* Provides a job listing service.
* Compiles an annual salary survey of system administrators' salaries keyed to many variables.
* Publishes a series of short topics booklets in the field of system administration.
* Establishes and promotes a code of ethics for system administrators.
* Supports local user groups.
* Offers anIRC channel.
* Presents two annual awards for outstanding contributions to the field and to SAGE: the Outstanding Achievement Award and the Chuck Yerkes AwardSpinoff
In June 2004, SAGE was dissolved as a Special Technical Group to prepare for a
spin-off from its parent organization,USENIX . OnOctober 27 ,2005 , the USENIX Board, by a 4-4 vote, failed to approve a motion to progress the separation of SAGE from USENIX, declaring instead that SAGE is better as a suborganization.References
See also
*
League of Professional System Administrators External links
* [http://www.sage.org/ SAGE]
* [http://www.sage-au.org.au/ SAGE-AU (Australia)]
* [http://www.sage-wise.org/ SAGE-WISE (Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England)]
* [http://www.sage-ie.org/ SAGE-IE (Ireland)]
* [http://www.guug.de/sage/ SAGE@GUUG (Germany)]
* [http://sageweb.sage.org/programs/cert/ cSAGE Certification]
* [http://www.usenix.org/ USENIX]
* [http://www.lopsa.org LOPSA - League of Professional Systems Administrators]
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