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SAGE-AU NSW Annual General Meeting - AUGUST
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NOTE: The meeting time and place has changed for Wollongong. Please 
take note of the new details.  This meeting is also the AGM for NSW.

SAGE-AU was formed to advance the profession of System Administration by 
raising awareness of the need for System Administrators, and educating 
System Administrators in technical as well as professional issues. We aim to 
promote interaction between professional System Administrators within 
Australia as well as internationally.

Date:   
        Thursday, 13th of August 1998
        (2nd Thursday of each month)

Time:   
        7:00 - 8:30

Venue:  
        Room 107 (First floor, follow the signs)
        Building 41 (Sciences Building)
        University of Wollongong 
        Northfields Avenue, Wollongong
        Map at http://www.psyc.uow.edu.au/~russell/sage-map.html

Who:    
        SAGE-AU Members, System Administrators
        (Visitors are welcome. After attending two
        meetings, visitors should become members)

Topic:  From Reactive to Proactive: changing the support paradigm.

Over worked, huge job queue, users complaining and you're in the hot seat?  
It's easy to fall into the trap of reactive job scheduling.  This paper 
discusses the problems inherent with a reactive approach to systems 
administration and support, examining how a small IT team is managing 
the change to a proactive strategy.

Russell Noble is the Computer Systems Manager in the Department of 
Psychology, University of Wollongong.  His IT experience includes 
three years applications development and support with BHP IT in the 
mainframe environment, and 4 years with the University where he has 
undertaken development and support projects on UNIX, Windows, 
Macintosh and Novell environments.  

Agenda: 
        7:00 Pizza, Coke, OJ, beer, and refreshments
        7:15 From Reactive to Proactive: changing the support paradigm.
        8:00 Annual General Meeting, SAGE-NSW
        8:30 Close

Purpose:
        To get New South Wales System Managers, PC administrators, 
        System Programmers & Network Administrators together.
        To lend a sympathetic ear to the plight of System Support.

Drink:
        Orange Juice, Coke and Beer - Free (while stocks last)

Food:
        Pizza & other nibblies (Donations kindly accepted)

RSVP:         
        Russell Noble 
        russell_noble@uow.edu.au
        (02) 4221 3651