[MAD-SAGE] Trey Harris: [SAGE] Call for volunteers for the new SAGE website

[dparter@xxxxxxxxxxx (David Parter)]

Sorry if you already got this from the sage-members mailing list. If you
are interested, please contact Trey directly.

    --david

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From:    Trey Harris <trey@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:55:57 -0400
To:      <sage-members@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [SAGE] Call for volunteers for the new SAGE website

In a few weeks, SAGE will be ready to announce its new website, with a
host of new features:
-- dynamic news and information content, updated daily;
-- expanded features and services;
-- online events, including interviews and online "Guru" sessions
   modeled after the popular "Guru is IN" track at LISA; and
-- discussion forums for the issues important to the system
   administration community.

The SAGE Executive Committee, staff, consultants and volunteers have
already put hundreds of hours into this project, but to make it
succeed, we need your help.

How?  We need volunteers now to serve two important roles:

-- Authors.  Have you been toying with an idea for an article in
   ;login:, or even a conference paper, but haven't had time to
   formalize it?  Have a favorite how-to, product comparison, or
   (sysadmin-related) rant you've written for your website or mailing
   lists that you think deserves wider distribution?  We have a venue
   for you.  Any topic that you think SAGE members and sysadmins in
   general will be interested in, we'd like to hear about.  We'd
   especially like to find people who are interested in being
   columnists, writing articles on an ongoing basis.

-- Editors.  Ever visited a site like Slashdot and thought, "I could do
   a better job than that Malda guy--in my sleep"?  Here's your chance
   to prove it.  We need volunteer editors who can sift through user
   submissions, moderate comments, and write original material too
   when the muse beckons.  The time commitment is what you make it,
   from a few minutes every day on up, but we need people who can work
   on the site regularly.

   We need people from all backgrounds in system administration, from
   junior general admins to specialized gurus.  We need editors in
   fields like security, network administration, system programming
   and architecture, and desktop administration. We'd also like to
   find some editors from time zones well removed from the U.S., in
   order to give the site 24-hour coverage.

Sound interesting? Then please respond to this message, preferably by
Thursday, 18 April.  Please include your real name (if it isn't in your
From: header) and a brief description of your background, affiliation
(self-employed or unemployed is fine!), any special expertise or
interests, and, if you're volunteering to author content, some information
about the topics you'd like to write about.  If you can include your SAGE
member number and your preferred public username as well, it would greatly
assist me in setting up your account.

This should be a fun and rewarding experience!

Trey Harris
Secretary, SAGE Executive Committee
Chair, SAGE Online Services Committee


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