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They're back! By popular demand... maybe.
 
If there is sufficient interest -- usually 25 - 35 people per meeting -- I
would very much like to organize quarterly SIGSYSMAN meetings in the San
Francisco Bay Area again. These meetings, which began in 1984 and ran until
1994 (when I ran out of gas) seemed to be quite popular. I know I always
learned something useful, which is why I would like to resurrect them.
 
An agenda for a typical meeting:
 
Morning - information sharing among System Managers, advocacy issues to be
conveyed to (usually) HP
Afternoon - technical presentation, question and answer session
 
These days, since most shops are heterogenous, I suggest the technical scope
of these meetings be an HP3000-centric approach to managing technical issues
in the data center. Therefore, HP-UX, Windows/NT, NetWare, etc. as well as
networking issues are valid topics. As always, however, I poll the group of
interested System Managers for topics of interest and do my best to find an
appropriate speaker.
 
If you are interested in attending SIGSYSMAN meetings in the San Francisco
Bay Area, please reply via e-mail to me ([log in to unmask]). If I
get enough responses, we should be able to meet by the end of the year. (I
already have my first volunteer to host a meeting!)
 
And if you think there is sufficient interest in an area outside San
Francisco, I now travel around the U.S. quite a bit and may be able to
arrange my schedule to coordinate meetings in other areas of the country.
 
-Scott
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