OVERVIEW

Technology is advancing, the systems administration profession is changing rapidly, and you have to master new skills to keep apace. At the 4th International SANE (System Administration and Network Engineering) technical conference and tutorial tracks you'll find a wealth of opportunities to meet other system administrators and network (security) professionals with similar interests, while attending a program that brings you the latest in tools, techniques, security and networking. You can learn from tutorials, refereed papers and invited talks. The official language at the conference will be English. The conference will be located at the Amsterdam RAI Congress Centre.

• Tutorial Program (September 27-29)
• Technical Conference (September 30 - October 1)
• Exhibition (September 30 - October 1)

POSTER SESSIONS

The SANE Posters provide an excellent forum for authors to present their work in an informal and interactive setting. Posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results or for giving an introduction to interesting, innovative work. Posters are intended to provide authors and participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage in discussions about the work.

The posters will provide information about the applications, architecture, implementation, performance and security of modern computing systems and IP networks. Posters that present Work In Progress and draw important conclusions from practical experience are especially welcome. Posters are being solicited in areas including but not limited to:

• Security tools and techniques: IPsec, Network Intrusion Detection Systems, Firewalls, VPNs, practical cryptography, auditing and computer forensics
• Attacks against networks and machines, including denial-of-service attacks
• Adventures in nomadic and wireless computing
• Web security fundamentals and practical web site maintenance
• Integrating new networking technologies like IPv6
• Network monitoring and traffic shaping solutions
• System and network performance tuning
• Managing enterprise-wide email and fighting spam
• Innovative system administration tools and techniques
• Distributed or automated system administration
• Managing large amounts of computers
• Unix on the desktop (including MacOS X)

REFEREED POSTER SUBMISSIONS

Successful posters are carefully designed to convey technical details. They should also attract the attention of attendees as they stroll past the displays. The goal is to develop a poster that encourages and facilitates small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact.

Posters will be reviewed and selected by the Poster Committee. An award will be given at the conference for the best poster.

A submission must include an abstract of up to 400 words. Including a rough sketch of the poster is recommended. Also include the URL of a web site related to the poster, if applicable. Submissions must be done through this web form

Authors of accepted submissions must provide a one or two page summary for publication in the conference proceedings. This brings the subject to an even larger audience. These summaries are held in the highest confidence prior to publication in the conference proceedings. By agreeing to present your poster at SANE 2004, you also give permission to the SANE 2004 conference organizers to publish the poster and summary on the NLUUG and SANE web sites.

PRACTICAL

• One author per accepted poster can attend the conference, exhibition and social event free of charge, excluding travel and lodging expenses.
• The posters will be located in a public area, close to the exhibition, viewable for all conference attendees.
• The size of the board for the poster is about 1.40 meter wide and 1.00 meter high. Note that this is landscape orientation! Push pins can be used to attach material to the board.
• There is a small table beside each poster with room for leaflets and a laptop for a live demo. If you need more room consider getting a booth at the exhibition.
• The posters are to be set up Wednesday evening, September 29.
• During both lunch breaks someone must be present at the poster to interact with conference attendees. At other times this is also possible, putting a time schedule on the poster is recommended.

IMPORTANT DATES

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Event Organization sane2004-org@sane.nl
Wytze van der Raay, treasurer, Stichting NLnet, Amsterdam, NL
Mariëlle Klatten and Sabina Beeke, conference organizers, ICONIQ, Baarn, NL