[NTLUG:Discuss] 2002 USENIX ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PAPERS

[Ann Tsai]

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ATTN:North Texas Linux Users Group

Below is a conference announcement and call for papers for the 2002 
USENIX Annual Technical Conference. Please let me know if you have a 
more appropriate method for submitting this information.

Thank you for your assistance!

Best Regards,

Ann Tsai
Marketing Coordinator
Usenix Association
510-528-8649 x31
ann at usenix.org



2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
June 9-14, 2002
Monterey, CA
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/

The USENIX Annual Technical Conference is the core conference for the 
USENIX community and a premier forum for computing professionals to 
share the results of their latest and best work, develop new ideas 
and solutions, and connect with their colleagues.

The 2002 Annual Technical program committee seeks original and 
innovative papers about the applications, architecture, 
implementation, and performance of modern computing systems. Possible 
application topics include, but are not limited to:

*Cluster computing			*File systems and storage systems
*Complexity management 		*Distributed caching and replication
*Mobile code				*Mobile/Wireless computing
*Reliability and QoS			*Security and privacy
*Interoperability of heterogeneous systems

Submissions to the General Refereed Sessions Track are due on 
November 19, 2001.

FREENIX is a special track within the USENIX Annual Technical 
Conference that showcases the latest developments and applications in 
freely redistributed technology. The FREENIX track covers the full 
range of software and source code including but not limited to 
Apache, Darwin, FreeBSD, GNOME, GNU, KDE, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, 
Perl, PHP, Python, Samba, Tcl/Tk and more.

The FREENIX progam committee is looking for papers about projects 
with a solid emphasis on nurturing the open source/freely available 
software community and talks which advance the state of the art of 
freely redistributable software. Areas of interest include, but are 
not limited to:

*Cross-platform source portability and binary compatibility
*Free Software development/mgmt	*File system design
*Storage Systems		*Highly scalable and clustered systems
*Security			*System and user management tools
*Quality Assurance		*Large scale system management

Submissions to the Freenix Track are due on November 12, 2001.

Submission guidelines and conference details are available on our website:
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/cfp/

Join us in developing the best technical conference program of 2002!

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The 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference is sponsored by
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