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SAGE-AU Sydney Meeting - AUGUST
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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:   
        Tuesday, 11th of August 1998
        (2nd Tuesday of each month)

Time:   
        6:45 - 7:45

Venue:  
        Meeting Room 1
        Samuels Building
        University of New South Wales
        Anzac Pde, Kensington
        Map at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~zebee/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: 
        6:45 From Reactive to Proactive: changing the support paradigm.
        7:30 Pizza and drinks and discussion
        7:45 (or so...) 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:         
        Zebee Johnstone
        zebee@cse.unsw.edu.au
        (02) 9385 4781



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