[lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2007 call for participation extended!

[lca-announce-admin at lists.linux.org.au]

URGENT linux.conf.au 2007 ANNOUNCEMENT:

The lca2007 Call For Participation has been extended by 2 weeks. This means
there is only 3 weeks left to submit your presentations, miniconfs, tutorials and
papers. Submit your proposal now!

http://lca2007.linux.org.au/cfp

Important dates
===============

    * Extended proposal deadline: September 15, 2006
    * Notifications by review committee: October 15, 2006
    * Conference begins: January 15, 2007

Proposal descriptions 
===================== 

Presentations are the main part of the conference and consist of a 40 minute
talk followed by 10 minutes for questions. Presentations provide an an ideal
opportunity to present a new technology or idea to the community.

Papers related to their presentation can be submitted by academics who are
accepted to give a presentation in the conference. These papers are
peer-reviewed by an international papers committee. Papers will be included in
the conference proceedings. The papers track allows students, researchers and
academics to have their work formally recognised.

Tutorials are half-day presentations which provide an opportunity to provide an
in-depth and hands on look at a specific technology. These tutorials should be
interactive, and the level of expertise required by participants should be
clear so people can choose tutorials appropriate to their level.

Mini-confs form an important part of linux.conf.au by providing an opportunity
for various groups within the community to come together to share ideas and
experiences. Mini-confs can be 1 or 2 day events, and an appropriate room will
be provided by the linux.conf.au team.

There will be other opportunities to participate in linux.conf.au 2007, such as
poster sessions, lighting talks and BOFs however organisation of these events
will happen immediately before, or at the conference.

Topics
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Most presentations will be of a technical nature, however we encourage
presentations covering educational, organisational, community or similar
aspects of open source software. Promotional presentations, commercial
advertisements, sales pitches and their like are not appropriate for this
conference.

Proposals on the following topics are encouraged:

    * System administration:
          o Monitoring
          o Deployment
          o Best practices
          o Linux deployments, practical experiences and war stories
    * Deep hacking:
          o Low level design and implementation of large and complex
            pieces of software such as kernels, database engines, or compilers.
    * The Craft of Programming
          o Programming languages
          o Tools
          o Project management
    * Free culture
          o Open-source in education
          o Important legal
          o Advocacy
          o Community
          o Government
    * The user experience
          o Open media, multi-media
          o Desktop environment
          o End-user applications, productivity apps
    * Cool hacks

      Anything which doesn't fall under one of the other topics, as open-source.

Proposal Guidelines
===================

Proposals for presentations and tutorials should be around 400 words and
should detail the subject you want to talk about and include links to any
other relevant details, such as a project home page. Remember this proposal
needs to convince our programme committee that you should be talking at
linux.conf.au 2007.

Proposals for miniconfs can be up to 2000 words, and should detail the
community involved, the expected number of attendees, proposed activities
and detail any support you would like from the organising committee. This
proposal needs to convince us that you can organise an interesting,
successful miniconf that people are going to want to go to!

Papers should be no longer than 14 pages and are reliant upon the related
presentation being accepted for linux.conf.au.

Papers and proposals should be submitted in an appropriate open format, such
as 7-bit ASCII text, HTML, DocBook or LaTeX.

Proposal requires pre-registration, providing the following information:

    * Full name (and preferred handle, if any)
    * Complete email address
    * Affiliation with commercial or relevant organisations
    * Postal address
    * Telephone and/or mobile numbers, with area and country codes.
    * Short biography, in around 1 - 3 paragraphs. The biography should
      include any previous speaking or organising experience.

Proposals and papers and should be submitted through our web form

Any featured software in papers must be available under a licence compatible
with the Open Source Definition. 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. linux.conf.au requires publication rights to accepted
papers, including the publication of the audio proceedings as well as
publication and reproduction rights to any video filmed during the
presentations. These rights are non-exclusive. Copyright ownership is retained
by the author. Submitting an abstract indicates understanding of and consent to
these conditions.

In the event that you miss one of the deadlines we reserve the right to revoke
any offer to present your paper. We take having the paper for the conference
proceedings very seriously and late proposals place an undue burden on our
formatting team.

All proposals must be complete by the closing date -- that is, the 15th of
September is not merely a closing date for abstracts. You will be able to
modify your proposals Real Soon Now. 

Cheers,
Pia

-- 
Linux Australia                                         http://linux.org.au/
 
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