Board Meeting Summary

Here is a sumary of some of the actions taken at the regular meeting of the USENIX Board of Directors held on June 26, 1999, in Monterey, California.

Policies

It was agreed that USENIX will restrict the rental of its mailing list and advertising in ;login: to supporting members only. The only exception to the latter would be publishers offering a special discount offer to USENIX members.

A revised scheme for renumeration for tutorial speakers was approved.

Good Works

It was agreed to donate $2,000 to the Mark D. Weiser Excellence in Computing Scholarship Fund at UC Berkeley.

Conferences

Embedded Systems. It was agreed to schedule a second Workshop with some modifications. Geer will make a proposal for this, possibly including a wearable systems component.

Intrusion Detection. It was decided that there were other entities in the field with interest in running events on this topic. Rather than holding another separate event, it was suggested running a track at LISA.

Network Administration: USENIX will work with NANOG on possibly holding this event alongside one of their meetings.

Smard Card Technology: This workshop will be continued in 2001, possibly co-sponsored by CARDIS and co-located with a CardTech conference.

Security 2000: Young and Geer will solicit proposals to chair this event and also look into expanding the tutorial program.

LISA-NT and Win/NT. It was not certain whether these events would be repeated every 12 months. This will be discussed in July.

File Systems Workshop: It was suggested that it be co-located with OSDI 2000.

Atlanta Linux Showcase. When USENIX fully sponsors this conference in 2000,it may include a Linux Developers Workshop (a proposal from Tweedie, Yodaiken, and Ts'o will be forthcoming) and another Extreme Linux Workshop (a proposal from Beckman and Greenberg will be forthcoming.)

SANE 2000. It was agreed that USENIX would once again co-sponsor this event which is sponsored by NLUUG.

NordU 2000. It was agreed that USENIX would again co-sponsor this conferencewith our affiliate, EurOpen.se in February in Malmö, Sweden. Parseghian will serve as liaison.