USELINUX CFP

["Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>]

Perhaps some folks would be interested in talking about Debian at
USELINUX in Boston next year?  If someone in the Boston area would be
willing to help organize a Debian BOF and other activities, that would
be great.  

I'm going to be fairly busy during the Usenix/USELINUX myself, between
being a conference chair and teaching a tutorial, etc., so having
someone who could organizing getting people together to staff a table at
the conference, perhaps, and organize a keysigning would be great.  Give
me a call if you'd be interested in helping to organize some Debian
events; I can coordinate with the Usenix folks to make sure we can have
space.

Also, if some of the folks who are interested in a Custom Debian
Distribution or a Debian "flavour", or some other presentations about
using Debian in some interesting fashion, that might make for a very
presentation.  If you have any quesitons about how to make a submission
to USELINUX, please feel free to drop me a line.  Thanks!!

						- Ted


Call for Speakers/Proposals: USELINUX

USELINUX will be one (or possibly two) day special interest track
hosted as part of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in
Boston (June 27 through July 2, 2004).  The focus of USELINUX, as the
name implies, will be on showcasing ways in which creative members of
the Linux community are making use of Linux --- on the desktop, in
embedded applications, in corporate data centers, in retail
environments --- the possibilities are endless!

We are soliciting proposals for presentations covering any of the
following topics:

	* Linux advocacy --- quantifying Linux TCO/ROI advantages
	* Linux adoption in lesser developed countries
	* Development tools and GUI libraries for embedded Linux
	* Technologies which enable the use of Linux 
		- desktop technologies
		- file format conversions
		- integration with with legacy Unix and Windows
			operating systems
	* Case studies
		- Using Linux in Business
		- Commercial uses of free software
		- Using Linux in network infrastructure and telephony
		- Cluster applications using Linux
		- Embedded Linux applications
		- Business models involving open source
	* Organization issues: Linux Users Groups
	* Next generation Linux security models
	* Managing large-scale and high-availability Linux installations

Proposals for more informal, "Bird of a Feather" sessions are also
welcome.


Submission guidelines:

In order to judge a proposal, we are requesting a submission of a 2-3
page extended abstract of the proposed presentation.  These abstracts
must be submitted by December 16, 2003.  While formal papers are
requested, they are not required; in leiu of papers, camera-ready
copies of the slides to be used in the presentation may be submitted
by May 4, 2004.  Formatting guidelines for papers may be found at:
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/freenixsubmit.html.

In order to submit a presentation proposal, please go the the
following web page:

	http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/uselinux.html


IMPORTANT DATES:

* Proposals due:                     December 16, 2003, 11:59 p.m. EST
* Notification to authors:           February 4, 2004
* Camera-ready papers due:           May 4, 2004


USELINUX Program Committee

Jerry Feldman
Jim Gleason
Bdale Garbee
Jon "Maddog" Hall
Don Marti
Stacey Quandt
Theodore Ts'o
Victor Yodaiken