dc.sage - Membership Information and Application

dc.sage is an organization for computer systems administrators (and related preoccupations: network administrators, computer security professionals) in and around the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. dc.sage welcomes any and all members of the technical community and computer afficionados to join the organization. In the past, the only requirement for becoming a member of dc.sage was to know where the Capitol of the United States was, and to be able to subscribe to the mailing list. Members have access to online resources, including mailing lists and web pages that contain names and E-mail addressed of other members. In the recent past, members of the technical recruiting industry have abused that access and spammed our membership. Consequently, prospective members are required to provide this information before receiving access to those resources. Our intention is not to exclude anyone who has a genuine interest in learning and sharing with others about computer systems administration and related areas of interest. Our intention is to avoid misunderstandings by the individuals who would use the contact information of dc.sage members for unsolicited and/or undesired commercial contacts (including and/or especially job recruiting). Again, please be sure that you understand and will comply with our privacy policy before you apply for membership.

Submission of this form constitutes an application for membership in dc.sage. Do not submit this form until you have reviewed the dc.sage Privacy Policy. Submission of this form constitutes an agreement to abide by that policy with respect to all dc.sage information services and data, including any data on the web pages, or transmitted via the mailing lists.

dc.sage membership benefits include participation in all sorts of weird computer-person type activities that happen spontaneously around the region. We also have technical talks and social events within the D.C. Metropolitan area. dc.sage is affiliated with SAGE (the Systems Administrator's Guild - a special technical group of the USENIX Association) ... but operates as an independent entity. USENIX/SAGE membership is encouraged for professional systems administrators, but it is not a requirement for membership in dc.sage. Currently, membership is free.

You must fill in this application form in order to be considered for membership in dc.sage. Accepted members of dc.sage will be subscribed to the dc-sage-announce mailing list, and will be assigned a Web ID and Password for accessing the web pages. Your responses to this form will be kept confidential. There are check boxes next to each piece of data that could become part of a web-based member directory, if it ever is created. Be sure that you do not check these boxes if you wish to lurk on the lists and not be included in the directory. Any information can be updated later (except your web ID). Required information is marked with a red required. False, misleading, or inaccurate information may be grounds for immediate expulsion from dc.sage.

dc.sage reserves the right to deny membership to anyone, at the discretion of the systems administrators.

dc.sage Membership Application

What is your full legal name? (e.g., Jonathan Oraculo Smythe) (required)

How do you want your name to appear next to your E-mail address? (e.g., Jon Smythe)

How do you want your name to appear in the member directory? (leave blank if you want to be left out)

Your primary/preferred E-mail address? (required)

Include this E-mail address in the directory?

dc-sage-announce

Alternate E-mail address?
This address will not be subscribed to any mailing lists or added to the member directory unless you specifically request it below. This address will only be used by the dc.sage systems administrators to contact you if your primary address breaks for some reason. This address will also be enabled as an 'alternate posting address' to dc-sage mailing lists.

Mailing List Subscriptions

All dc.sage mailing lists are closed to non-members. In order to post to any of the mailing lists, the address from which you send the E-mail must be subscribed to at least one of the lists, or added to the "alternate posting address" list. Subscription to mailing lists (other than dc-sage-announce is entirely optional. You may specify up to 5 E-mail addresses other than your primary/preferred one. If you need additional "alternate posting addresses" you may request them after you receive your Web ID.

About the Mailing Lists

dc-sage-announce@dc-sage.org

This is the announcement list of dc.sage. The list is moderated by the dc.sage systems administrators and posting is generally limited to announcements that are believed to be relevant to all members of dc.sage (meeting dates and times, significant changes in policy or information, etc.) In order to remain a member in good standing, you must have at least one functional E-mail address subscribed to dc-sage-announce. Bandwidth is an average of about 7 E-mail messages per month.

dc-sage@dc-sage.org

This is the main technical talk list of dc.sage. This list can get fairly noisy at times as local admins ask questions and have a variety of responses. This list tries to stay relevant to issues that are technically of interest to systems administrators. Any dc.sage member may post to this list. Archives of this list are available to dc.sage members only (via their Web ID).

dc-sage-chat@dc-sage.org

Far lower bandwidth and much lower signal-to-noise ratio is the intention of this mailing list. This is where it's recommended that dc.sagers rant, try to meet up with other local admins for discussions or other activities of mutual interest, etc. This is a new and so far very quiet list. Archives of this list are available to dc.sage members only (via their Web ID).

E-mail Address	add to dc- sage- announce	add to dc- sage	add to dc- sage-chat	allow to post to lists	add to directory
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Other E-Mail Address:	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.
Other E-Mail Address:	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.
Other E-Mail Address:	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.
Other E-Mail Address:	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.
Other E-Mail Address:	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.	Yes. No.

Membership Eligibility Questions

What is the capital of the United States of America?
Are you currently employed, full-time, or part-time as a computer systems administrator, network administrator/engineer, security administrator/engineer, technical manager of one or more of these? (required)
Please describe, in your own words, why you interested in joining dc.sage . This response is required if the response above was not "Yes".
Do you currently derive any or all of your income, from participation in any of the following activities? If not, do you engage in any of these activities for hobby or entertainment purposes, or assist others in these activities? If so, please describe in detail. (required)
1. Employment recruiting.
2. Information Brokering/Mining/Investigation.
3. Advertising or promoting products, services, or electronic resources that advertise or promote products or services through the use of unsolicited E-mail messages. [For the sake of definition, an unsolicited E-mail message is one that is sent to an E-mail address that was not given to you by that recipient with full intent of receiving your E-mail messages.
4. Acquisition of names or E-mail addresses for any of the above activities.
5. Any other endeavor that might induce you to use your dc.sage membership and/or access to dc.sage information resources in a way that would impinge upon the privacy of another dc.sage members, including the generation of undesirable E-mail and/or solicitation of services.
Please use this section to provide details, or to ask us questions if you do not understand why we are asking these questions. This response is required if your responses above was not "No".
Do you understand, and do you agree to abide by our privacy policy?
Any other information that you wish to share with us about yourself that might encourage us to approve your membership? This can be anything you want to submit: names of other sysadmins who will vouch for you, references from alt.sysadmin.recovery postings, number of pets, your favorite operating system and/or editor ... whatever. This section is used primarily to keep the human beings who have to pore over all this data from being bored ... so make it interesting. :)

Additional Contact Information

Everything from here on down is optional. Any information you provide in this form is for the use of dc.sage systems administrators and officials only, in accordance with our privacy policy. However, there is a check box to request that any or all of this information be made available to other dc.sage members through the member directory. It's all up to you.

Daytime Phone Number?
Include Daytime Phone Number in Member Directory? Yes. No.

Evening Phone Number?
Include Evening Phone Number in Member Directory? Yes. No.

Mailing Address

Include Mailing Address in Member Directory? Yes. No.

Your Working Title / Position
Include Your Title in Member Directory? Yes. No.

Your Company Name
Include Your Company Name in Member Directory? Yes. No.

Your AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) ID
Include Your AIM ID in Member Directory? Yes. No.

Your ICQ ID
Include Your ICQ ID in Member Directory? Yes. No.

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