The System Administrators Guild of Australia

Welcome to the official website of the System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU). SAGE-AU was formed to advance the profession of System Administration by raising awareness of the need for System Administrators, and educating System Administrators in technical as well as professional issues.

The Australian System Administrators' Conference 2008

The sixteenth annual Australian System Administrators' conference (SAGE-AU 2008) will be held in Adelaide, at the Holiday Inn Monday 11 - Friday 15th of August 2008.

This year, we have two special international guests.

Tom Limoncelli: Tom is an internationally recognized author and speaker. His books include the (recently released) 2nd edition of "The Practice of System and Network Administration" (Addison-Wesley), "Time Management for System Administrators" (O'Reilly) and "The Complete April Fools RFCs" (Peer-To-Peer). Tom works at Google's NYC office and previously worked for large and small companies including Bell Labs and Cibernet. He is the joint recipient of USENIX/SAGE's 2005 Outstanding Achievement Award. He blogs at www.EverythingSysadmin.com.

Elizabeth Zwicky: Elizabeth has accumulated experience, if not wisdom, in more than 20 years in and around system administration. She has worked as a system administrator in education, government, and corporate environments, has worked in three countries and two languages, and has been an author, educator, developer, manager, system designer, and consultant. Her smallest employer had under 10 employees, and her largest over 10,000. She is a founding member of SAGE-AU.

The first three days of the conference consist of our training program, which is made up of a series of half and full day presentations on a variety of subjects, and presented by both locally and internationally recognised experts in the field of System Administration.

The conference technical program is then run on the last two days, and is made up of a number of shorter (30 to 60 minutes each) presentations covering topics from basic time and task management principles to overviews of new/interesting technologies and their use within the practice of system administration.

Our Annual General Meeting and Conference Dinner are also held on Thursday, with the dinner being held in the National Wine Centre, and providing attendees with a great opportunity to network with their peers in a relaxed and informal atmosphere.

Finally, the conference will close once again with Simon Hackett's "State of the Broadband Nation" presentation, in which Simon will present his take on the current state of broadband and Internet connectivity in Australia, as well as giving some insight into what he believes lies ahead for us in this area - a particularly interesting topic given the Federal Government's current stance on broadband Internet access in Australia.

Visit our conference website for more information. Register now!