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TUTORIALS, INVITED TALKS, WORKSHOPS, WIPS, AND BOFS

LISA offers state-of-the-art tutorials from top experts in their fields. Topics range from introductory skills to advanced topics, updates on developments and news. You can choose from over 40 full and half-day tutorials, covering everything from performance tuning, Linux, Solaris, Windows, Perl, TCP/IP troubleshooting, security, networking, network services, sendmail, Samba, legal issues, and professional development.

To provide the best possible tutorial offerings, USENIX continually solicits proposals for new tutorials. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial at this or other USENIX conferences, please contact the tutorial coordinator:

Daniel V. Klein
Tel: 1.412.422.0285
Fax: 1.412.421.2332
Email: dvk@usenix.org

Invited Talks

The Invited Talks track range from the highly technical, to the highly informative, to the highly entertaining!

Some example speaker topics:

• The latest security "hot topics"
• The next step in "Unified Messaging"
• Building wireless network infrastructures.
• Managing your stock options.
• Building a digital house.

• Decoding industry buzzwords.
• The BOFH issue.
• How government policy affects sysadmins.

If you have a topic of interest to systems administrators that is suitable for an Invited Talk, please submit a proposal to the Invited Talk coordinators. Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not appropriate for submittal.

Please email your proposal to: lisa01it@usenix.org. Invited Talk proposals due: June 5th, 2001.

Workshops

For the past several years, the LISA conferences have included workshops on Advanced Topics, Global LISA, Teaching Sys Admin, AFS, and others.

Limited-attendance, special-topic workshops will be offered alongside the Tutorial Program at LISA 2001. If you are interested in organizing one, please submit a workshop proposal.The proposal should address the following questions/issues:

1. workshop organizers
2. topic/goals
3. format
4. projected attendance (we have one room, with a capacity of up to 60 people in a "classroom" configuration, a smaller number in a "roundtable" configuration )
5. target audience
6. how you will recruit participants
7. special needs, if any
8. anything else we should know

Please submit proposals via email to lisa01workshops@usenix.org no later than June 5, 2001.

Work-in-Progress Reports

Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a cool idea that is not yet ready to be published? The USENIX audience provides valuable discussion and feedback. We are particularly interested in presentation of student work. To schedule your short report, send email to: lisawips@usenix.org.

Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions (BoFs) are very informal gatherings organized by attendees interested in a particular topic. BoFs are held Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings. BoFs may be scheduled in advance by phoning 1.510.528.8649 or via email to: conference@usenix.org. BoFs may also be scheduled at the conference.

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