Thanks to our Volunteers

USENIX's success would not be possible without the volunteers who lend their expertise and support for our conferences, publications, member services, and philanthropic activities. While there are many who serve on program committees, coordinate the various activities at the conferences, work on committees, and contribute to this magazine, I would like to make special mention of the following individuals who made significant contributions in 1998.

The program chairs for our 1998 conferences:

• Avi Rubin, 8th USENIX Security Symposium
• Fred Douglis, USENIX Technical Conference
• Joe Sventek, 4th Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies & Systems
• Don Libes & Michael McLenna, 6th Tcl/Tk Conference
• Thorsten von Eicken & Susan Owicki, 2nd USENIX Windows NT Workshop
• Remy Evard & Ian Reddy, LISA-NT Conference
• Bennet Yee, 3rd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce
• Xev Gittler & Rob Kolstad, 12th LISA Conference

The conferences' Invited Talk/Special Track Coordinators:

• Clem Cole & Berry Kercheval for the invited talks at the USENIX Conference
• Jon "maddog" Hall for organizing the FREENIX track at the USENIX Technical Conference
• Doug Schmidt for serving as tutorial program chair for COOTS '98
• Dan Geer for organizing the public key infrastructure session at the Electronic Commerce Workshop
• Phil Scarr & Pat Wilson for the invited talks at LISA
• Adam Moskowitz for organizing the Advanced Topics workshop at LISA
• Rob Kolstad & Joel Avery for organizing the Global-LISA workshop at LISA
• Dmitry Lenkov for organizing the Advanced Topics Workship at COOTS
• Evi Nemeth for organizing student volunteers and MBone services at various conferences
• Elizabeth Zwicky for serving as liaison and program committee member for the NLUUG/USENIX SANE conference

Members of the the USENIX Board of Directors who "retired" in Summer '98:

Eric Allman, Margo Seltzer, and Lori Grob

The eight members of the current USENIX Board of Directors who devote so many of their "free" hours providing leadership and governance. A special thanks to Andrew Hume who, as president, has helped in holding things together in what was at times a difficult year. I would like to thank the SAGE executive committee members whose term expires this February for their contributions:

Tim Gassaway, Hal Miller, Barb Dijker, Kim Trudel, Helen Harrison, Amy Kreiling, and Pat Wilson

The following people provided extra effort with SAGE activities:

• Barb Dijker & Mark Lamourine for putting together the "Day in the Life of a System Administrator"
• Tim Gassaway, Barb Dijker, and Kim Trudel for serving on the SAGE certification committee
• Pat Wilson for chairing the SAGE nominating committee for the Elections and helping with the Web site, especially SAGE Jobs-Offered

And also:

• Steve Johnson for serving as the liaison to the Computing Research Association
• Eric Allman and Hal Pomeranz for serving as the USENIX board liaisons to the SAGE Executive Committee
• Margo Seltzer, Darrell Long, David Kotz, Lori Grob, Pat Parseghian, and Peter Honeyman for serving on the USENIX Scholastic Committee, which oversees the student research grant and scholarship programs
• Members of the USENIX Tutorial Review Committee who continue to help the staff in developing our
  program

USENIX is grateful to all!