SAGE (organization)

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SAGE is the USENIX Special Interest Group for Sysadmins, an international nonprofit professional association of system administrators.

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.

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Until November 2003, SAGE was known as the System Administrators Guild.

1 Major activities
2 Spinoff
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] 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 an IRC channel.
Presents two annual awards for outstanding contributions to the field and to SAGE: the Outstanding Achievement Award and the Chuck Yerkes Award

[edit] Spinoff

In June 2004, SAGE was dissolved as a Special Technical Group to prepare for a spin-off from its parent organization, USENIX. On October 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.