From owner-freebsd-announce Fri May 12 12:47:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from luna.cdrom.com (luna.cdrom.com [204.216.28.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25BC437BF95 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:47:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.cdrom.com) Received: by luna.cdrom.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CDCD531E8; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:47:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 12:47:19 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: announce@FreeBSD.org Subject: BSDCon 2000 Call for Papers Message-ID: <20000512124719.A1972@luna.cdrom.com> Reply-To: jim@luna.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I am pleased to announce the call for papers for BSDCon 2000, the 2nd annual BSD Conference and Expo! For more information on how to submit a paper, where to submit it, deadlines, etc., see below. There will be two sets of tutorials prior to the actual conference. Here's what it looks like right now: Tutorial 1 (Oct. 14-15): TBA Tutorial 2 (Oct. 16-17): BSD Internals by Kirk McKusick If you are interested in participating in the first tutorial (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS), please contact us. The deadline for tutorial submissions is August 1, 2000. During the conference, papers will be given by various BSD users, developers, and companies. If you would like to give a paper, you are encouraged to do so! You can either choose a topic of your own, or you can choose from one of the following: o Desktop o Commericial uses (hosting, etc.) o Raid o Embedded systems o Device drivers o Ports collection o Networking o Porting to various architectures o Performance Tuning o Threads o Kernel Architecture o Programming o Security o Interoperability (with other OS's) o Mass Installations o System Administration o E-Commerce o Internationalization These are just some of the areas that we would like to see discussed, although any topics relevant to BSD or the community in general are more than welcome. If you are interested in participating in the first tutorial, or possibly giving a different tutorial, please contact tutorials@bsdcon.com. If you are interested in giving a paper, please contact me at jim@bsdcon.com. Thanks! - jim -- - jim mock - walnut creek cdrom/freebsd test labs - jim@luna.cdrom.com - - phone: 1.925.691.2800 x.3814 - fax: 1.925.674.0821 - jim@FreeBSD.org - - editor - The FreeBSDzine - www.freebsdzine.org - jim@freebsdzine.org - This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message