<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Still</b> <<a href="mailto:mikal@stillhq.com">mikal@stillhq.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:<br><br>> - I don't believe that Australia is big enough for two organizations<br>> which cover so much common ground.<br><br>Aren't there a lot more than two at the moment though? I can think of
<br>AUUG, LA, SAGE-AU, ACS off the top of my head.</blockquote><div><br><br>I don't think there's all that much overlap between ACS/SAGE-AU and bodies like LA and AUUG.<br><br>ACS and SAGE-AU target specific kinds of professionals. SAGE-AU specifically targets sysadmins, but they target sysadmins of all platforms - Linux, Solaris, and Windows are all well-represented on the mailing lists, but other commercial unices get a look-in as well (and even obsolete things like Novell get discussed from time to time). There's also a lot of discussion about the processes sysadmins have to work within and about the role of sysadmins within an organisation.
<br><br>True, a lot of SAGE-AU people tend to favor FLOSS - even those who primarily use Windows at work seem to tinker with FLOSS a lot on the side. However, SAGE-AU itself is completely neutral on the issue of platforms: SAGE-AU exists to help sysadmins admin whatever syses get thrown their way.
<br><br>I'm less familiar with ACS (I'm not a member of ACS, as I am of SAGE-AU), but my impression is that they target developers and "engineers". Again, there would be a lot of overlap in terms of people, but ACS' goals and objectives are wildly divergent from organisations like LA. I'm not saying they're at all incompatible - just very different.
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