[NTLUG:Announce] USENIX 2003, San Antonio June 9-14

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USENIX 2003 announcement (I'm going):

> From: Peter Mui <pmui at usenix.org>
> To: Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>
> 
> 
> Hi Chris:
> 
> Thanks for your help thus far in getting the word out about the June 
> 9-14 Usenix Conference in San Antonio.  There are a lots of last minute 
> additions to the conference that make it even more of a must-attend 
> event:
> 
> o Chris DiBona will give a presentation on the SCO vs. Linux case. 
> Chris was recently nominated by Linus Torvalds to represent the Open 
> Source community on the committee to be formed by SCO to look into 
> whether the Linux kernel has IP owned by SCO.  Some of the principals 
> in AT&T's case against UC Berkeley (System V vs. BSD) will also be 
> present at the conference.
> 
> o Both SAGE (System Administrator's Guild) Certification Examinations 
> will be administered at the conference.
> 
> o These authors will be present and have author signings:
> - Kay & Steven Robbins, co-authors of the just-published "UNIX Systems 
> Programming" and "Practical UNIX Programming"
> - Bill Cheswick, co-author of "Firewalls and Internet Security: 
> Repelling the Wily Hacker, Second Edition"
> - Avi Rubin, co-author of "Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling 
> the Wily Hacker,Second Edition" and author of "White-Hat Security 
> Arsenal: Tackling the Threats"
> - Peter Salus, author of "A Quarter Century of UNIX" and "Casting the 
> Net: From ARPANET to INTERNET and Beyond..."
> - Neal Stephenson, author of  Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, 
> Cryptonomicon, and the just-finished Quicksilver.
> 
> o Birds-of-a-Feather sessions on:
> - Microsoft presenting their LINUX/UNIX development tools
> - Linux and Mach 3.2
> - “Super BSD” (BSD, NetBSD, BSDoS, OS X)
> - Google
> - System Administrators Guild (SAGE)
> - the Sun (Microsystems, Inc.) community
> - A BSD Panel Session moderated by Marshall Kirk McKusick
> 
> Please help us get the word out on these exciting additions, and let me 
> know if I can help in any way: for example, if you'd like printed 
> brochures I'll ship some out to you.
> 
> Also remember that there's still a $100 registration discount for NTLUG 
> members.  Here's the URL for the conference:
> 
> http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix03/
> 
> Thanks again, and have a good Memorial Day Weekend, -Peter
> 
> 
> Peter Mui
> USENIX Association
> 2560 9th Street STE 215
> Berkeley, CA 94710
> 510 548 8649 ext. 28
> pmui at usenix.org
>