Call for Papers
Recent past conferences have included sessions on: Perl for Systems Administrators; IPv6; Kerberos, Samba, Scons, Haskell, Chef, Ansible, JuJu and Coffee Script. If you would like to offer a half day workshop that might interest our target audience, please submit a proposal.
- backup and restore
- data de-duplication
- security and audit
- authentication and authorisation
- virtualisation and system deployment using 'cloud' technology
- operating systems
- network/cluster file systems
- ethics and legislative compliance
- storage solutions
- databases and directory services
- nomadic and wireless computing
- cluster management
- configuration management
- scripting and task automation
- benchmarking and performance tuning
If you have a novel solution to a problem, experience of a particular application or hardware platform, tips and tricks for fellow systems administrators, or a favourite tool you could talk about, please submit a paper for consideration by the programme committee.
There will be a prize for the best talk.
We are also seeking lightning talks for the afternoon of Wednesday 19th March. If you have not spoken before, or if you don't have enough for a longer talk this is a great opportunity for a less formal talk format.
Significant Dates: Initial closing date for abstracts: 15th November 2013 Speakers notified by: 29th November 2013
The call for papers is open, this year we are asking speakers to submit online rather than email. The site to do so is: http://conference.flossuk.org/en/spring2014/cfp/session/new