[SAGE] RE: [sage-governance] Jones request

["Mike Jones" <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com>]

Actually, you *could* do this alone.  A LOPSA board vote to accept the
October 28th decision of the USENIX board would end the uncertainty.  I
believe that the many SAGE members who have written to me and to these
lists supporting our decision would then likewise thank you for doing
your part.  There's no need to keep trying to drag this out.

				-- Mike

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:sage-governance-bounces@mailman.sage.org] On Behalf Of Andrew
Hume
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 8:43 PM
To: USENIX Board
Cc: SAGE Members Mailing List; sage-governance@sage.org
Subject: [sage-governance] Jones request

recently, jones made this post:

> Finally, I'll make one more observation.  I believe it would be really
> good for everyone involved if any questions about where SAGE will live
> were completely resolved sooner rather than later, because this
> continuing sense of uncertainty that these discussions engender
doesn't
> help any of the organizations or their members.  Towards that end, I
> would personally like to ask the newSAGE board to either declare,
soon,
> that they plan to make another, hopefully final proposal to the USENIX
> board, and if so, by what date, or that they have decided to move on,
> and publicly and hopefully amicably state that they have decided that
> SAGE should remain with USENIX and they will move on towards
> independently pursuing their own plans, letting each organization do
as
> they see best to serve the system administration profession in 
> hopefully
> complementary and cooperative ways.

the LOPSA board welcomes the opportunity to abate the general
level of uncertainty. unfortunately, we cannot do that alone. we would
be happy to work with usenix on a joint statement about the
two organisations re-engaging in negotiating an agreement.
we would welcome the opportunity to proceed with the negotiation.
this seems to be the overwhelming sentiment of the members expressed
over the last week, and lets us get this process finished.

		andrew, on behalf of the LOPSA board

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Andrew Hume  (best -> Telework) +1 732-886-1886
andrew@research.att.com  (Work) +1 973-360-8651
AT&T Labs - Research; member of USENIX and SAGE

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