Announcement and Call for Papers 1st 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, Dept. 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------