Questions for S.C. candidates for monday's elections

[Stephen P. Schaefer]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 19:31 -0800, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> It is unlikely that the NCSA members know that all the S.C. 
> members 2years ago, except myself, would rather cancel a 
> meeting in the absence of a scheduled speaker, than go 
> to the trouble of preparing a talk themselves. Do you 
> think that an S.C. member who presumably is a computer 
> professional (if not professional S.A.), should be able to 
> give a 45minute presentation once a year on a topic of 
> interest to the members? (I don't care if it's not on S.A. -
> growing roses would be OK with me.)
> 
> Would you support a resolution requiring S.C. members to 
> give upto one presentation a year in the absence of a 
> scheduled speaker for a meeting?

I'm curious as to which meeting you're referring to.  There was no talk
at the Oct. 2004 "Tenth anniversary NC*SA social gathering", but I
enjoyed the expanded opportunity to converse with colleagues - on both
sysadmin topics and unrelated matters.  December, 2002, there was no
power at RTI.  November 2002 was elections and GPG key signing, which I
thought was an appropriate work for NC*SA - not technically a talk, but
I'm sure it refreshed the knowledge of those who don't often use GPG.
March 11, 2002 was canceled due to a lack of speaker three and a half
years ago.  Record of past talks is here:
http://www.ncsysadmin.org/past.php

I have since prepared a "back pocket" talk on a cost model for levels of
system administration automation, as presented by Alva Couch at the 18th
LISA conference.