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Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:34:07 EDT<br />
To: sage-members@sage.org<br />
From: The SAGE Board <palmer+sage@azuen.net><br />
Subject: [SAGE] SAGE Memo to Members, 9/6/2005<br />
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SAGE - The People Who Make IT Work<br />
<br />
SEPTEMBER MEMO TO MEMBERS<br />
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<br />
Please Email board@sage-members.org with any questions, comments,<br />
or ideas. We always want to hear from our membership.<br />
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<br />
In this memo:<br />
<br />
1. SAGE hires Association Headquarters<br />
2. Sam Albrecht named Executive Director<br />
3. SAGE events at LISA<br />
4. Sponsorships sought<br />
5. State of USENIX transition<br />
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<br />
* SAGE hires Association Headquarters<br />
<br />
In the first week of September, SAGE signed a contract with Association<br />
Headquarters (AH) to provide association management services. These<br />
services include an Executive Director, financial management, membership<br />
management, creative services, and Board and volunteer training.<br />
<br />
Effectively, AH is now SAGE's office. Association Headquarters has been<br />
specializing in providing these services to not-for-profit corporations<br />
since 1978, and has won numerous awards in this area.<br />
<br />
The SAGE Interim Board and the current Board are especially pleased to<br />
have found a management company that is committed to a true partnership.<br />
Our July board meeting was held at AH's headquarters in Mt. Laurel, New<br />
Jersey. It became even clearer to us then that AH is much more than an<br />
"outsourced back office". The staff had energy, ideas, and experience<br />
in nearly all the areas important to SAGE.<br />
<br />
As SAGE will be able to take advantage of AH's decades of management<br />
experience, AH will learn from SAGE's online and high-tech experience to<br />
enhance their services to all their client partners, thus making it a<br />
symbiotic relationship. We will be releasing an independent press<br />
release soon going into more detail about AH, but for now check them out<br />
at<br />
<br />
http://www.associationheadquarters.com/<br />
<br />
* Sam Albrecht named Executive Director<br />
<br />
SAGE is please to announce that Sam Albrecht has been named Executive<br />
Director.<br />
<br />
Sam brings extensive experience in management of non-profit enterprises.<br />
He is also an actual rocket scientist; he was involved in the Titan<br />
program. Sam's technical depth combined with his management experience<br />
makes him a natural Executive Director for SAGE. Sam will be attending<br />
LISA 2005, so feel free to talk to him then about his experience, and<br />
his part in the future of SAGE.<br />
<br />
Sam can be reached at salbrecht at sage-members.org. For more about<br />
Sam, see:<br />
<br />
http://www.associationheadquarters.com/AboutAH/albrecht.htm<br />
<br />
* SAGE events at LISA<br />
<br />
Our plans for LISA continue to take shape. In addition to the SAGE<br />
Member Meeting, there will be additional BOFs and organized<br />
opportunities to talk to the Board. Current ideas include workshops for<br />
SAGE volunteer training, BOFs about mentoring & SAGE web services, and<br />
more. You can also take this opportunity to discuss how you can<br />
volunteer to make things happen for SAGE as we start implementing our<br />
new services and activities. <br />
<br />
If you have ideas for specific SAGE activities or discussions that you'd<br />
like to see at LISA, please send them to the SAGE Board at<br />
board@sage-members.org. We want to hear from you, and we'll work with<br />
the conference organizers to make it happen. Of course, you needn't wait<br />
until LISA to talk to the Board about the direction of SAGE; words now<br />
could influence what we present then.<br />
<br />
Of course, SAGE also would like to repeat its encouragement that<br />
everyone attend LISA if you can, both for itself and for the critical<br />
role this year's conference will play to the future of SAGE. For more on<br />
LISA, check out the website at <br />
<br />
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa05/<br />
<br />
* Sponsorships sought<br />
<br />
As a new stand alone corporation, SAGE needs new sponsors, now more than<br />
ever. Sponsors will provide a valuable jump-start to SAGE services and<br />
programs. SAGE is defining levels of sponsorship to ensure that there is<br />
an opportunity for every individual and every organization to sponsor<br />
SAGE, and receive useful benefits.<br />
<br />
For individuals and companies, we offer benefits that allow you to<br />
showcase your support for system administrators: the people who purchase<br />
and manage the products you provide. SAGE is still nascent, and so our<br />
benefits of sponsorship have not yet come into focus. As a nascent<br />
organization, we have the flexibility to tailor our sponsorship program<br />
to our founding sponsors. Sponsors can make a lasting and significant<br />
contribution to the future of an organization for and by system<br />
administrators by contributing now.<br />
<br />
If you or your organization have a sponsorship idea, or for details on<br />
sponsorship levels, please contact the Board at board@sage-members.org.<br />
<br />
* Usenix Agreement status<br />
<br />
For the last few years, the SAGE STG within USENIX has been trying to<br />
build an organization whose primary goal was the advancement of system<br />
administration as a profession. Despite a lot of work by many people,<br />
and significant amounts of money, the results were unsatisfying to nearly<br />
everyone involved. Some part of this failure was thought to be the<br />
difficulty of two groups with divergent goals and interests trying to<br />
co-exist.<br />
<br />
Accordingly, in June 2004, the USENIX board passed a motion detailing a<br />
plan where SAGE would incorporate as a separate nonprofit (501(c)3)<br />
organization. In its essence, there were three phases of activities, and<br />
upon successful completion of each phase, USENIX would make resources<br />
available to SAGE (like some money, hardware such as webservers, and<br />
eventually, trademarks such as SAGE).<br />
<br />
In November 2004, Phase 1 -- setting up the new corporation -- was<br />
declared done. Roughly speaking, according to the original USENIX<br />
motion, Phase 2 was entirely transfer of assets from USENIX to SAGE, and<br />
Phase 3 was a viability evaluation phase to see how SAGE made use of<br />
those assets.<br />
<br />
Unfortunately, the USENIX counsel opined that SAGE might not qualify for<br />
501(c)3 status, because of SAGE's focus on membership services.<br />
Therefore, the transfer of services was to be structured as an<br />
outsourcing agreement, until the IRS made its determination about the<br />
new SAGE. SAGE was given the task of generating this agreement.<br />
Strangely, timelines were not altered despite the fact no resources<br />
could flow from USENIX to SAGE before this agreement was signed.<br />
<br />
The SAGE Interim Board (Cheswick, Halprin, Harris, Parter) continued<br />
doing their work creating the new organization, part of which was<br />
running the first elections for the SAGE board in late June 2005. The<br />
first board meeting was held on July 29-31 at the offices of Association<br />
Headquarters, which SAGE has contracted with to provide management,<br />
office functions, and other support.<br />
<br />
One of the activities assigned at this meeting was to finish up the<br />
outsourcing agreement. An earlier draft had been unsatisfactory, so we<br />
restructured it as a "SAGE will provide the following x services to<br />
USENIX-SAGE members, and in return, USENIX will pay SAGE y resources<br />
(money, hardware, etc)".<br />
<br />
When we submitted this draft to the USENIX board, we found that things<br />
had gone badly awry. Due to misunderstandings about dates, compounded<br />
by a lack of oversight by USENIX's SAGE Transition Committee, the SAGE<br />
Board believed that Phase 3, the test of viability lasting 6-12 months,<br />
had yet to start, as Phase 2 had not been completed. Apparently, most<br />
of the USENIX Board thought that phase 3 had already started on Nov 18,<br />
2004 and was terminating in November 2005. The draft minutes of the<br />
USENIX board mentioned no firm deadline until this August meeting. In<br />
addition, some additional legal concerns appear to have affected the<br />
validity and meaning of some of the requirements.<br />
<br />
The current situation is that a negotiating team (of USENIX and SAGE<br />
representatives) is finalizing agreement on the content of a single<br />
comprehensive accord which will replace the prior USENIX Board motions<br />
and other proposals. After this is done, lawyers will turn it into a<br />
contract between USENIX and SAGE, which both Boards will then<br />
(hopefully) approve. While this delay is frustrating and to some extent<br />
hampers our efforts to jumpstart our shiny new organization, it will<br />
give us a firm foundation on which to build.<br />
<br />
Once this contract is complete, SAGE can finally directly manage<br />
services such as the website, mailing lists, domain et al. At that<br />
point, we'll be able to act on our plans and your comments, and you will<br />
start to see some results. As you can imagine, it's frustrating for a<br />
bunch of sysadmins to not even have a domain or a webserver. That<br />
sticks in the critical path of nearly everything we want to do.<br />
However, all the various problems in communication appear to have been<br />
sorted out, an agreement appears imminent, and hopefully that will be<br />
the last major hurdle before you start seeing results.<br />
<br />
* Minutes of Board meetings<br />
<br />
The minutes of SAGE Board of Directors meetings, once approved, can be<br />
viewed at <br />
<br />
http://www.sage-members.org/public-wiki/Minutes<br />
<br />
New minutes should appear on this page within 2 weeks of most meetings.<br />
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