The Seattle SAGE Group (SSG)
Seattle based special interest group for system and network administrators.

Meeting Minutes December 12, 1996

What happened?

Well Leeland was supposed to be out (he was very sick). Well he came anyway and most of the other attendants had a good laugh watching him dodge through the halls because the director, who was supposed to be on a plane out of town, was still in the building. However, attendence was light (expected due to the holidays).

The presentation by James Walden on CGI practices was very well done. There were some excellent questions during the presentation which really brought out the subject material nicely.

Known Bugs

  • The MBT building doors still lock up at 6pm. This must be. So we will make sure that someone will check the doors regularly (at least every 10 mins) for new attendees.
  • Meetings during holidays are not generally well attended... ;^)

    • Meeting Highlites

    1) SSG Business
    Bruce Wynn was running the show.
    The SAGE board has not yet acted on opening up the SAGE mail-list server for local groups. However, this idea has received strong support and is expected to happen within a short time (SysAdmin time that is...)

    2) Open floor comments and introductions
    No discussions points were brought up.

    3) Presentation by James Walden
    "CGI Programming (or Pot Hole Management 101)"

    James's presentation walked through the basics and more advanced CGI uses. He has provided the slides and we'll let them speak for us.

    4) Closing
    The meeting ended precisely on time with no real comments for the notes from the attendees.

    5) Dinner
    A very annoying time was had...(personal bias I think). Leeland's wife attended this meeting. She suggested going to Red Robin for diner and everyone agreed. So we translocated to the Red Robin at Northgate. She also let it drop that it was, in fact, darn close to Leeland's birthday. At which point Bruce and a few others pushed Leeland off to the arcade while they discussed some nonsense. Upon sitting down the group made sure to tell the waiter that it was Leeland's birthday. At which point the festivities began in full. By the end of the meal Leeland was properly red faced and took the birthday song with the free desert well enough.

    The Next Meeting

    The next meeting is scheduled for January 9th. The topic to be presented is "IMAP implementation (or Squeezing Blood From A Turnip Would Be Easier)" by Mark Fromm.

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