Announcement and Call for Papers

1^st International SANE Conference

November 18-20, 1998

Maastricht, The Netherlands

A conference organized by the NLUUG, the UNIX User Group - The Netherlands
co-sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, and Stichting NLnet

OVERVIEW

Technology is advancing, the systems administration profession is changing rapidly, and you have to master new skills to keep apace. At the International SANE (System Administration and Networking) conference you can join the community of system administrators while attending a program that brings you the latest in tools, techniques, security and networking. You can learn from tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. Visit the Vendor Exhibition for the hottest products and the latest books available. The official language at the conference will be English. The conference will be located at the Maastricht Exposition and Conference Center, MECC.

TUTORIAL PROGRAM

On Wednesday November 18, 1998, up to four in-depth tutorials will be presented to you by the most popular and widely acclaimed speakers.

TECHNICAL SESSIONS

Two days of technical sessions, including keynote address, presentations of refereed papers and invited talks will follow the tutorial day.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

Program Co-chairs:
Edwin Kremer, Department of Computer Science, Utrecht University
Jan Christiaan van Winkel, AT Computing
Program Committee:
Jos Alsters, C&CZ, KU Nijmegen
Bob Eskes, ASR, Hollandse Signaalapparaten
Peter den Haan, C&CZ, KU Nijmegen
Patrick Schoo, Department of Mathematics, Utrecht University
Michael Utermöhle, Department of Computer Science, University of Paderborn
Jos Vos, X/OS Experts in Open Systems
Elizabeth Zwicky, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Event Organization:
Chel van Gennip, Hiscom
Mariëlle Klatten, NLUUG
Monique Rours, NLUUG

IMPORTANT DATES

Extended abstracts due:	April 17, 1998
Notification to speakers:	May 8, 1998
Final papers due:	September 4, 1998

Complete program and registration information will be available in June 1998. To receive information about the conference, please contact: sane98-info@nluug.nl or visit the conference WWW site: http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane98/

CONFERENCE TOPICS

Presentations are being solicited in areas including but not limited to:

Security tools and techniques
Managing enterprise-wide email (what about UCE?)
Experiences with free software, including operating systems, in a professional environment
Innovative system administration tools & techniques
Distributed or automated system administration
Incorporation of commercial system administration technology
Adventures in nomadic and wireless computing
Intranet development, support, and maintenance
Integrating new networking technologies
Integration of heterogeneous platforms
Performance analysis, monitoring and tuning
Support strategies in use at your site
Effective training techniques for system administration and users

INVITED TALKS

If you have a topic of interest that is not (yet) very well suited for a refereed paper submission, please submit a proposal for an invited talk to the Program Committee at the address: sane98@nluug.nl

REFEREED PAPER SUBMISSIONS

An extended abstract of up to four pages is required for the paper selection process. Abstracts accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms are not acceptable and will be returned unread. Authors of accepted submissions must provide a final paper for publication in the conference proceedings. Final papers are held in the highest confidence prior to publication in the conference proceedings. Authors agree with publication of the final paper in the members-only area on the NLUUG WWW site and/or the conference CD-ROM. Please submit extended abstracts by one of the following methods:

 E-mail to:        sane98@nluug.nl
 Fax to:           +31 20 6950018
 Postal mail to:   NLUUG
                   PO Box 22727
                   1100 DE AMSTERDAM
                   The Netherlands

22 December 1997 14:28 CET (ehk)