Re: [SAGE] Certification (was funding)

[Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>]

At 5:53 PM -0500 10/6/01, David R. Linn wrote:

>  The other side of the issue is this: I am essentially a sysadmin (that's
>  not my title says but that's what most of you would call my job).  That's
>  my job but that's not what gets my engine going - my areas of *interest*
>  are kernal internals in general and filesystem design and implementation
>  in particular.

	Fair enough.

>                  Those are tangential to LISA, at best, but dead center
>  in the thrust of ATC.

	Here, I disagree completely.  IMO, these are dead-center 
on-target for LISA.  The problem is that these papers are being 
submitted to ATC instead of LISA, and therefore we're not seeing them 
at LISA.  IMO, the ATC should reject papers of this sort and they 
should instead be presented at LISA.

>                         Worse yet, I've been doing this long enough that
>  I've even come to believe that there is a *need* for people management -
>  folks who saw me in Boston will know that I took two days of management
>  track tutorials (and a Solaris internals tutorial).

	People management is a critical part of senior systems 
administration -- you're almost certainly going to be a Team Leader, 
if not an actual manager.  If not, then your next step up the ladder 
will certainly be Team Leader or Manager, because no companies in the 
world provide a technical growth path beyond Senior System 
Administrator.


	Again, these things are dead-center on target for LISA.

	If the LISA program committee disagrees, then I think it should 
reconsider just what exactly it means to be a "Large Installation", 
and either change the name of the conference to be more suitable, or 
re-think their position and just how they are going to justify their 
continued existence to the membership.


	Certainly, I feel these kinds of things are dead-center on-target 
for SANE, and as a member of the program committee, I would work 
very, very hard to try to get as much coverage in these areas as I 
can.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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