This is an excerpt from a discussion on enforcing policy and the policy makers not wanting to be included in their own policy. It seemed appropriate to quote, because we sometimes lose sight of the enabled position we hold when we see the disconnect between policy and practice.

We do have the ability to adjust attitudes and to convince the user community - which includes upper management, that following a sensible policy or practice is actually better for all concerned.

We are having a change of venue for this meeting. We are making it a social event, and as such will be having it at the Cheshire Cat in/near Carp. I can provide rides for a few people, as I’m going past March Rd. on my way out there. Feel free to ask. Keep reading for more information.

The Cheshire Cat is located at:
2193 Richardson Side Rd
Carp
phone: 613-831-2183

We had a few links mentioned at the meeting and I thought I’d post them here before I forgot about them:

• http://www.i18nguy.com/humor/privacy.html - a sample privacy statement
• http://www.lopsa.org - the new League Of Professional System Administrators
• http://www.geeklog.net - We had a discussion on translating /looking up substitutions for internationalisation.
• http://www.linuxbutler.ca/rsdidw.html - When request meets implementation
• http://www.monkeybagel.com - Some sysadmin humour (dark humour in some cases)

We have another meeting Thursday, Nov 17, 2005 at Altera.
See the calendar for address information, or check the meeting location link at the top.

We may even have a proposal for a new format to add some useful substance to these meetings - it’s a thought. In addition, I do not know how many people are members of Usenix and SAGE, but there have been some rather interesting developments in the past week. I’ll be chatting about that for a bit as well.

If you tried to add info and failed, it may have been due to the OS upgrade done last week. I’m hoping everything is OK now.