USENIX is the advanced computing systems association. Since 1975 the USENIX Association has brought together the community of engineers, system administrators, scientists, and technicians working on the cutting edge of the computing world. The USENIX Association and its members are dedicated to problem-solving with a practical bias, fostering innovation and research that works, communicating rapidly the results of both research and innovation, and providing a neutral forum for the exercise of critical thought and the airing of technical issues.

SAGE is the system administrators guild, the international organization of system administrators dedicated to the recognition and advancement of the system administration profession. SAGE, a special technical group within the USENIX Association, co-sponsors conferences on system and network administration, publishes a bi-monthly newsletter, conducts an annual system administration salary survey, fosters relationships with international affiliates, facilitates the work of regional system administration groups, and publishes an on-going series of practical booklets and resource guides covering topics of interest to system administrators.

The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media.

ACM is an international scientific and educational organization dedicated to advancing the art, science, engineering, and application of information technology, serving both professional and public interests by fostering the open interchange of information and by promoting the highest professional and ethical standards. ACM also supports many special interest groups called SIG<subject> such as SIGCOMM for data communications.

IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet, and membership is open to any interested individual. The actual technical work of the IETF is done in its working groups, which are organized by topic into several areas (e.g., routing, transport, security, etc.).

The IEEE is a non-profit organization that exists to advance he theory and practice of electrical engineering, electronics, radio and the allied branches of engineering and the related arts and sciences. Much like ACS, IEEE sponsors conferences and training sessions as well as organizing various technical sub groups.

The Society of Computer Professionals is a new organization that was created to recognize abilities and acknowledge achievements of computing professionals and to help them attain many benefits at reduced rates. Membership benefits include reduced rates for health insurance, business insurance, retirement programs and discounts for members from many wholesalers and manufacturers of computer equipment.

IACR, the International Association for Cryptologic Research, is a non-profit scientific organization whose purpose is to further research in cryptology and related fields. To that end, IACR sponsors and co-sponsors several yearly conferences and maintains the Journal of Cryptography.

ECTF, the Enterprise Computer Telephony Forum, is an industry organization formed to foster an open, competitive market for Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) technology. The basic objective of the ECTF is to support the rapid advancement of an efficient and compatible technology base that promotes a competitive CTI market. The ECTF facilitates the implementation and acceptance of CTI solutions by bringing together suppliers, developers, systems integrators, and users to discuss, develop and test interoperability techniques for dealing with the diverse technical approaches to computer telephony integration.

TCIF is the catalyst to link people, information and technology electronically. TCIF, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), was founded in June 1986 to promote understanding and implementation of global standards, guidelines and emerging technologies involving electronic data interchange, electronic commerce and bar coding.

IMC, the Internet Mail Consortium, is the only international organization focused on cooperatively managing and promoting the rapidly-expanding world of electronic mail on the Internet. The goals of the IMC include greatly expanding the role of mail on the Internet into areas such as commerce and entertainment, and advancing new Internet mail technologies.

The Internet Society is a non-governmental international organization for global cooperation and coordination for the Internet and its internetworking technologies and applications. The society's individual and organizational members comprise the companies, government agencies, and foundations that have created the Internet and its technologies as well as innovative new entrepreneurial organizations contributing to maintain that dynamic.

UGU, the Unix Guru Universe, was developed for the System Administrators who don't have time to surf/cruise/browse the internet looking across the world for information. It was designed to find pertinent data quickly and easily, and is for ALL sysadmins beginners to guru's alike to share.

Security organizations of all sorts are listed in our security references. These sites include NIST, CERIAS (formerly COAST), CERT, and various other UNIX security sites.