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.
Bursaries may be made available for accepted speakers who are unable to afford travel costs. (Note: A budget limit has been set by Council and all amounts are to be confirmed in advance).
All accepted speakers receive a complimentary conference place and a ticket for the Conference dinner.
We are also seeking lightning talks for the afternoon of Wednesday 25th March – please contact us if you have something you want to schedule in the programme.
Significant Dates: Initial closing date for abstracts: 30th November 2014 Speakers notified by: 17th January 2015
To submit a paper, please email spring2015@flossuk.org