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- From: bigmac@erg.sri.com (Bryan McDonald)
- Subject: Re: System Administration, Networking, and Security (SANS II)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.171350.21094@erg.sri.com>
- Keywords: USENIX Association, SAGE
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- Organization: CHAOS - SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
- References: <1292@usenix.ORG> <1jn79pINN4uh@network.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 17:13:50 GMT
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- In article <1jn79pINN4uh@network.ucsd.edu> middleto@poincare.ucsd.edu (Tom Middleton ; System Manager) writes:
- >This is the first I have heard of SANS (but then, I haven't been watching
- >all that closely either). I am aware there is also SAGE and LISA. It
- >seems to me that these three groups tend to cover the same area with some
- >small variations. I have three questions:
- >
- >1) What is the relationship between SANS, SAGE and LISA?
- >(both organizationally and in areas covered)
- >
- >2) In what ways are they not related?
- >
- >3) Assuming you were limited to being involved with only one of the above
- >groups; how would you decide which one to belong to?
-
- LISA is the System Administration conference for USENIX. SAGE is the
- System Adminstrators' Guild, a STG (Special Technical Group) of USENIX.
- SAGE's mission is to advance/promote the profession of systems' adminstration,
- looking at and beyond the scope of a technical conference like LISA to
- issues like careers, management, education, certification, ethics, etc.
- SAGE will probably be very involved in attempting to maintain the high
- quality of the LISA conferences and any other efforts of a similar nature.
-
- SANS (System Adminstration, Networking, and Security) is the renamed
- World Conference on System Administration and Security
- from last July. It is principly sponsored by FedUNIX, a Washington, D.C.,
- based group.
-
- SAGE is also co-sponsoring SANS this year, working with the World Conference
- group to promote cooperation and interchange between their group and USENIX,
- and to bring together two groups aiming at different segments of the
- system adminstration profession.
-
- I went to both conferences last year, and was a member of the interim board
- of SAGE. Each has its benefits. SAGE is not a conference, but an
- ongoing support effort, aimed at improving our field as it begins to expand
- quickly. I think it is an excellent effort and would encourage anyone to join.
- SANS and LISA are differnet on focus and other mundane things, like time
- and location, and which one you attend, if you can only attend one, depends
- a lot on what you want out of the conference.
-
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