From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@valinux.com> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: Linux Kongress Call-for-Papers Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 21:50:43 +0200 ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS 8th INTERNATIONAL LINUX-KONGRESS 2001 ------------------------------------- "Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Linux" November 28-30, 2001 University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands A conference organized by the GUUG (the German UNIX User Group), with support of the NLUUG (the UNIX User Group - the Netherlands) and LiVe (Linux Verband, Germany), under the auspices of the German ministry of education and reseach (BMBF) OVERVIEW The 8th International Linux-Kongress 2001 will take place from November 28 to November 30, 2001, on the campus of the University of Twente (UT), Enschede, the Netherlands. It follows the tradition of the Linux-Kongress series in Germany (Heidelberg '94, Berlin '95 and '96, Wuerzburg '97, Koeln '98, Augsburg '99, and Erlangen '00) which has evolved into the most important meeting for Linux experts and developers in Europe. This year is special because we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Linux and are organizing the conference for the first time outside Germany. You are invited to participate in this famous Linux community event by giving a presentation about your current development work, experiences with Linux and Open Source, and future plans. The Linux-Kongress will be the best opportunity for Open Source developers to meet in Europe and exchange ideas about current and upcoming Open Source projects. You can learn from the tutorials, refereed papers, and invited talks, and discuss the newest technology with famous Linux and Open Source gurus. You can also visit the vendor exhibition, where leading Linux and Open Source companies show their newest products, or find the latest books about your favorite topic on this exhibition. A social event will be organized on Thursday, November 29. A perfect opportunity to exchange ideas with other Linux experts, while enjoying food and drinks. The official language at the conference will be English. TUTORIAL PROGRAM (November 28) On Wednesday, a number of tutorials will be presented, all related to Linux and Open Source. Tutorials both for beginners and for more advanced users and developers will be included. If you're interested in presenting a tutorial or would like to share ideas about what would be a terrific tutorial, please contact the program committee via e-mail at <program@linux-kongress.org>. TECHNICAL CONFERENCE (November 29-30) Thursday and Friday will offer around 25 technical sessions, including keynote address, presentations of refereed papers, and invited talks, divided in 2 parallel tracks. The talks will focus on Linux kernel and systems software, as well as more generic Open Source software, the underlying software technologies, and the free software and Open Source philosophy. Each presentation will be 40 minutes (including discussions, when applicable). The Linux-Kongress 2001 conference seeks original and innovative papers about the current Linux software development and more generally about Open Source projects. Presentations are being solicited in areas including, but not limited to: * 10 years of Linux (historical perspective) * Security (firewalls, VPNs, cryptography) * Networking (IPv6) * High-Availability and clustering * Architectures (from Linux on PDA's to Linux on S/390) * Virtual machines and emulations (Wine, Plex86, User-Mode Linux) * Storage management (LVM, filesystems) * Device drivers * Multimedia * ... To address the fast evolving nature of Linux, new topics not covered by the conference talks can be discussed during informal gatherings, called Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions. BoFs may be scheduled at the conference or in advance by mailing the program committee. REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS Papers for the technical sessions will be reviewed by the program committee. An extended abstract is required for the paper selection process. These abstracts must be submitted via the Linux-Kongress 2001 web site at <http://www.linux-kongress.org/abstract-submission.html>. Only abstracts in ASCII or HTML format (250-500 words), including a title and the name(s) and e-mail address(es) of the author(s) are accepted. Furthermore, abstracts accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned unread. By submitting an abstract to the Linux-Kongress 2001 organization, you also give permission to publish it on the conference web site. Authors of accepted submissions are asked to provide a final paper for publication in the conference proceedings. This paper preferably should not have been published before. IMPORTANT DATES Extended abstracts due: September 1, 2001 Notification to speakers: October 1, 2001 Final papers due: November 1, 2001 PROGRAM COMMITTEE You can contact the program committee via <program@linux-kongress.org>. Abstracts can only be submitted via the web form at <http://www.linux-kongress.org/abstract-submission.html>. Program chair: Jos Vos, X/OS Secretary: Martin Schulte, GUUG Members: Wichert Akkerman, VA Linux Fred Donck, NLUUG / PatriotSoft Gert Doering Ralf Flaxa, Caldera Sebastian Hetze, Linux Information Systems Dirk Hohndel, SuSE Florian La Roche, Red Hat SPONSORS Caldera <http://www.caldera.de/>, Erlangen iX <http://www.heise.de/ix/>, Hannover Linux Information Systems <http://www.linux-ag.de/>, Muenchen/Berlin O'Reilly <http://www.oreilly.com/>, Koeln SuSE <http://www.suse.com/>, Nuernberg University of Twente <http://www.utwente.nl/uk/>, Enschede X/OS <http://www.xos.nl/>, Amsterdam MORE INFORMATION http://www.linux-kongress.org/ Complete registration and program information will be made available on the web site during September/October 2001. Companies interested in getting a booth at the exhibition or in sponsoring the Linux-Kongress 2001 should send e-mail to <exhibition@linux-kongress.org> or <sponsoring@linux-kongress.org>, respectively. For any further questions please contact the conference organization via e-mail at <info@linux-kongress.org>. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | wichert@cistron.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |