UKUUG Spring 2010 Conference
23-25 March in Manchester
UKUUG’s annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference and tutorials will be held in Manchester on 23-25 March 2010 at the Manchester Conference Centre. The call for papers is now open and we are accepting submissions for tutorials and conference talks.
This conference is a must-attend event for system and network administrators. As well as the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment for members to meet, learn, and enjoy lively debate on a host of subjects.
Why attend?
There are lots of reasons to attend or send your technical staff to the Spring 2010 conference, including:
- Keep abreast with new/emerging technologies. <!–
- Learn hands-on skills in the Kerberos training tutorial. –>
- Network with some of the people who are responsible for developing critical applications. <!– such as OpenLDAP, Kerberos and openQRM.–>
- Become part of the UK Unix community – build up informal relationships that can be invaluable in problem solving.
- Benefit from the experience of delegates with similar interests.
- Keep staff happy and feeling valued. <!–
- Make valuable contacts with sponsor organisations such as Google, Bytemark, Novell and Sun. –> <!–
- Secure essential O’Reilly textbooks at a significant discount to the cover price. –>
Bookings are now open – secure your place now!
–> <!–Bursaries available for female students and developers – courtesy of Google.
–> <!–With the major conference theme being virtualisation we include major talks from:
- Xensource by Ian Pratt and others
- Solaris Logical Domains & Zones by Sun
- Transitive Technologies
- An afternoon of Uses and Experiences of virtualisation & how it solved contributors’ problems
- Perl 6 by Jonathan Worthington
- System Configuration by Paul Anderson
- Svk by it’s author Chia-Liang Kao
- Secure Filesystems with AFS
- FreeBSD by Poul Henning-Kamp & Robert Watson
The core of the conference being a full afternoon session on virtualisation, focusing on experiences and direct benefits including talks by users & developers of virtualisation tools.
–> <!–The conference dinner, sponsored by Google will take place on the Tuesday evening at Old Trafford.
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