[lopsa-ethics-review] Ethics poster

[Stephen Potter]

Jennifer Davis wrote:

> Then I saw that SAGE put out something in their recent announcement 
> saying SAGE was going to review the ethics.. and then LOPSA saying 
> that the process was happening.. so it's been very confusing with no 
> actual communication with the past committee or this mailing group in 
> general. 

I'm not sure about any message that SAGE put out; I had direct 
conversations with Alva Couch at LISA and he took an action item to get 
the USENIX board to de-brand the CoE, and invite LOPSA to field the 
official committee.  I put out a status report to this list 
(ethics-review) on 1/23 fully laying out the intentions and changing the 
date from 2/1/06 (the original deadline) to 3/1/06 because of the 
confusion before LISA.  You must have seen that message to know about 
the date change.  If you were confused, I wish you would have contacted 
me (either directly or as a response to the status message) requesting 
explanation.

When we formed the original committe (yourself, Robert Brockway, Lois 
Bennett, Gene Rackow, and Andrew Barnes), it was with the intention that 
you would be the community leaders and would hold public discussions 
both at LISA and online.  We had a very lively discussion at LISA but 
did not come up with any major issues that anyone felt needed to be 
addressed; however, there are some fourty or so members on this list and 
we had only about twenty at the BOF, so there may yet be ideas that have 
not been put forth.

If you have any additional questions, please let me know.
-spp

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Stephen Potter  <spp at unixsa.net>   <http://www.systemadministrators.org>
Director, LOPSA Executive Board                   <http://www.lopsa.org>

"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, two
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