Linux.conf.au 2003 | Call For Papers
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Linux.conf.au is the annual Australian Linux technical conference, and
one of the largest gatherings of users and developers in the Southern
Hemisphere, organised by the Australian Linux community.  It is not an
expo for Linux products, but an opportunity for developers and groups
to present their ideas amongst peers, and for the Free Software and
Open Source communities to gather in general.

The 2003 conference is being held in Perth, Western Australia at the
Crawley campus of The University of Western Australia, next to the
Swan River.  More information can be found on the conference website:

    http://conf.linux.org.au/

Although the majority of conference attendants are developers, papers
of more general appeal will be considered.

People interested in giving presentations have a choice of the
following formats:

* Paper Presentations (45 minutes)
* Tutorials (3 hours)
* Work in progress/poster sessions (30 minutes)
* Birds of a Feather meetings (informal)
* Panel discussions


Topics
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Papers on the following topics are encouraged:

* Linux kernel
* File systems
* Databases
* Programing and scripting languages
* Networking and communications
* Productivity, Groupware
* Multimedia
* Games
* Other 'Open Source' projects

We are open to a broader range of papers as well, even non-Linux based 
papers (*gasp*!). Submit it anyway to us!


Abstracts are required for paper, tutorial and work in progress
presentations.  Abstracts should be up to 400 words and be
submitted to the Paper Review Committee at the address
lca-cfp@conf.linux.org.au.  Abstracts should contain meta information
of:

* Author's full name (and preferred handle, if any)
* Author's complete email address
* Author's affiliation with commercial or relevant organisations
* Author's postal address
* Author's telephone and fax numbers, with area and country codes
* Author's short biography, in around 1 - 3 paragraphs.
* Author's favourite technical book/reference
* Author's favourite shell, text editor, and Linux Distribution
* Whether travel and accommodation assistance will be required.
   - if so, please list the closest international air terminal.


Abstracts and bios should be submitted as plain text.  The final paper
should be submitted in one of the following electronic formats:

* PDF (A4 paper size)
* PostScript (A4 paper size)

We encourage you to submit the the 'source' for the paper as well
(eg. HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, MagicPoint, etc).

Any featured software in papers must be available under a licence
compatible with the Open Source Definition
(http://www.opensource.org/osd.html). Any papers that are accompanied
by non-disclosure agreement forms will be rejected.  All successful
papers must be eligible for republication on-line and on distribution
media given to conference attendees.  You retain copyright to your
paper.  You may be asked to sign an agreement to this upon arrival at
the conference.

Birds of a Feather (BOFs) and Panel discussions will be organised
closer to the date of the conference.  If you are interested in
running either please send an expression of interest to
lca-cfp@conf.linux.org.au.

We are also interested in any sub-groups of the Open Source/Free
Software community who would like to leverage the travel and venue
arrangements for their own "mini" conferences, as was done in Brisbane
in 2002.  Please email lca-cfp@conf.linux.org.au with your details,
and include the estimated number of people you think would attend. It
would be up to you to organise this: any of these events are
completely independent to LCA 2003.

Dates to Remember
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* Abstracts Due: 15th July 2002
* Acceptance Notification by Review Committee: September 2002
* Final Complete Submissions Due: December 15 2003. Remember, Santa
  knows if you haven't got it in on time!

Travel and Accommodation Assistance
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Some financial assistance is available for speakers' travel and
accommodation in cases of need. Please indicate in your abstract
submission(s) if this is the case.

** If your CFP submission doesn't clearly state that you require
assistance, the panel will assume that you do not require any. **