UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference

High-Availability and Reliability

25-26 February 2004

Bournemouth

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Call for Papers

A PDF version of this Call for Papers is available (updated 14 October).

UKUUG will hold its next Winter Conference in Bournemouth on 25 and 26 February, preceded by a separate tutorial on the morning of the first day.

The main theme for this year's conference is High Availability and Reliability, with talks from Alan Robertson (IBM Linux Technology Centre) on Heartbeat, and Lars Marowsky-Bree (SUSE, Cologne) on the design and set-up of high-availability clusters.

The UKUUG Winter Conference offers an opportunity for members to meet, learn, and enjoy lively debate on a host of subjects, and to attend interesting presentations by prominent speakers in the open systems arena.

As well as papers on the general theme, the UKUUG wishes to encourage discussion on key aspects of systems and their administration: theory and practice; performance; network management; novel solutions to practical problems; integration; interoperability; and security. Work-in-progress presentations and project posters are also welcome; proposals for these should be submitted in the same way as for full papers.

Last Year's Winter Conferences have included talks by:

Tim Chown, University of Southampton IPv6 Tutorial
Eddie Bleasdale, Netproject Ltd Secure Open-Desktop Architecture
Richard Francis, Internet Governance Consultants UK Law and the System Administrator
David Holdsworth, Leeds Authentication and X.509 Certificates
Josh Howlett, Bristol University The Nomadic Network: a Framework for Mobile and Wireless Computing
Stuart McRobert, Imperial College A TOE in the water (TCP Offload Engines)
Lindsay Marshall, University of Newcastle upon Tyne The Mac OS X Experience ...after 20+ years of UNIX
Andrew Nicolson Open Development for a Fuzzy Client

Significant Dates

      Closing date for abstracts              11 November 2003
      Authors notified                        18 November 2003
      Programme published                     end November 2003
      Final papers due                        28 January 2004

Method of Submission

Potential authors may request further information by sending e-mail to winterconf@ukuug.org Initial abstracts should be sent as e-mail to winterconf@ukuug.org.
Abstracts should be accompanied by a short biography, and, ideally, should be about 250-500 words long. Final papers should normally last 30-40 minutes. If you need more time for your presentation, please tell us when you submit your abstract.
Submissions are welcome from members and non-members of UKUUG and particularly submissions by students. Student's sponsorship may be available on a discretionary basis. Submissions can be made by email to winterconf@ukuug.org.
Please send any queries to the UKUUG Secretariat - details above

A PDF version of this Call for Papers is available

For more information please contact UKUUG

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