[wellylug] CFP: Systems Administration Mini-Conference at NZNOG 08

[Ewen McNeill]

Hi,

I'm passing this on in case anyone is interested in presenting; it was
originally posted to the NZNOG mailing list.

We are holding a network system administration mini-conference at the
NZNOG 2008 conference in Dunedin in late January 2008, following on from
the first one we held this year (in Palmerston North).  We are looking
for people interested in presenting on topics of relevance to system
administrators at ISPs.  A copy of the call for presentations follows.

Please email us at <talks08 at nznog.miniconf.org> with offers to present.

Ewen

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                        Call for Presentations for
         NZNOG 2008: Systems Administration Mini-Conference

			http://nznog.miniconf.org

We will be holding a network systems administration mini-conference
in Dunedin, New Zealand on Wednesday 2008-01-23, as part of the New Zealand
Network Operators' Group 2008 conference (http://2008.nznog.org/).

The NZNOG 2008 conference will be held between 2008-01-23 and 2008-01-25.
Registration at the NZNOG 2008 conference is a mandatory prerequisite for
attendance at the mini-conference; we expect there will be no additional charge.

Note: A similar Mini-conference is also intended to be held in
      Melbourne, Australia, a week later as part of linux.conf.au 2008.

The mini-conference's focus is on "Layer 7" issues to do with network and
ISP operations, including providing customer services (email, DNS, etc)
and provisioning and management topics.

We are now seeking proposals for presentations at the mini-conference.
We have openings for:
- 50-60 minute full presentations
- 25-30 minute half presentations
- 5-10 minute "lightning talks"
- 5-10 minute "How we do things" presentations

Presentations are expected to be directed at a technical audience, and
focused on a system administration area related to network or ISP
operations.

Some possible topics:
- Email servers and spam filtering techniques
- DNS servers, registry systems
- server security and best sysadmin practices in an Internet provider
  environment
- VoIP servers
- network management / monitoring tools
- RADIUS/TACACS/LDAP
- Netflow, routing, and traffic analysis tools
- server tuning for high performance networking
- provisioning tools
- honeypots and other security techniques
- network based storage
- high availability and disaster recovery for network services
- virtual machine technology for network services
- *nix based routing and fire-walling
- tools you need that you may not know about

We are happy to discuss the suitability of other topics with intending
presenters.

The 10 minute "How we do things" presentations are intended for people to
talk about their sites. Information could include: Servers, talks, tools,
people and roles, experiences, software, operating systems, monitoring,
alerting, provisioning etc. The intent is to give other attendees a picture
of what is happening in the "real world" and some understanding of how other
sites work and how to interact with them.

Timeline:

- Proposals due by 2007-11-19
- Selection advised by 2007-11-27
- Draft program published by 2007-11-30
- Presentations 2008-01-23

Please send all proposals and questions to <talks08 at nznog.miniconf.org>

Andrew McMillan, Ewen McNeill and Simon Lyall (Conveners)
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