SAGE-AU'99 - Call For Papers

[Geoff Halprin <geoff@sysadmin.com.au>]

				SAGE-AU'99
			The Seventh Annual Conference of
		The System Administrators Guild of Australia

			*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

The SAGE-AU conference is the premier systems administration event in
the Asia-Pacific region. The conference offers a premium educational
forum for system administrators of all platforms and levels of
experience, and an excellent opportunity to meet, network and learn.


Dates:	Monday 5th to Friday 9th July 1999

Venue:	Novotel Brighton Beach
	Cnr The Grand Parade & Princess Street
	Brighton-le-Sands  NSW  2216

Call for Papers and Tutorials
=============================

The System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU) will be hosting
its seventh annual conference in Sydney, July 5-9, 1999.

The annual SAGE-AU Conference, Tutorials and AGM provides a forum
for Systems Administrators, Systems Managers, Network Administrators,
Developers of Systems Administration Software and Managers of such groups
to meet and share their knowledge and experiences, and is the premier
event for System Administrators in the Asia-Pacific region.

SAGE-AU'99 is hereby calling for papers and tutorial presentations on any
and all topics related to system administration.

Deadlines
=========
Conference paper Summary Abstracts:	Friday 12th February 1999
Submission of tutorial Abstracts:	Friday 12th February 1999
Authors Notified:			Monday 27th February 1999
Conference paper Extended Abstracts:	Friday 2nd  April    1999
Works In Progress (WIP) Abstracts:	Friday 21st May      1999
Final papers and tutorial notes:	Friday 4th  June     1999


How to Submit
=============
This year's conference will consist of three types of papers, and
tutorials:
  a) Invited Talks
  b) Refereed Papers
  c) Works In Progress
  d) Tutorials

Timeslots are available for 15, 30, 45 and 60 minute presentations.
5-10 minutes should be reserved for questions from the audience.

15 minute timeslots are less formal and are to allow people to talk briefly
about some topic of interest or problem without having to prepare a formal
paper ("Work in Progress"). WIP submissions should be made to the programme
committee as per the deadlines mentioned above.

People presenting a 30+ minute talk will receive free conference registration.

People presenting a 15 minute talk will receive a 50% discount on the
conference registration fees.

If you wish to present a paper, send a brief abstract ("Summary Abstract")
to the address below by the due date. Please indicate whether you are asking
for a 15, 30, 45 or 60 minute timeslot.

Summary Abstracts should be 100 -- 200 words in length. Papers should have a
technical orientation and should not contain advertising.

Authors will be notified of whether their submission has been accepted or
rejected.

Authors of Refereed Papers will be required to submit an Extended Abstract
of between 3 and 5 pages by the date specified. This should be sufficient
to define the structure of the paper, the major points covered and the areas
which require further work. The Programme Committee will assist authors in
organising their work to help ensure the quality of papers and preparedness
of authors.

Authors giving 30+ minute presentations will be expected to provide a
final "camera ready" paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

The Programme Committee will also be preparing guidelines to assist authors
in planning their presentations. We encourage those inexperienced in public
speaking to trial their papers at the local chapter meetings in order to
assist with conference preparation.

Tutorials
=========

Tutorial sessions will be either half day or full day in duration. People
wishing to present tutorials should submit an abstract of the material
they wish to present, who their intended audience is, and an indication
of whether they require a half day or a full day timeslot. Tutorials
should be run in lecture format.

Suggested topics include:

  Computer and Network Security/Network Authentication
  PC/Apple/Unix/Mainframe Interoperability
  NFS/Automount/AMD Configuration and Operation
  Perl/Java/Tcl/Python
  Sendmail/Qmail/smapd/Anti-SPAM
  WWW Cache/Router Config/Firewall Setup/Squid
  NT/Win95 Administration


Tutorial presenters will be paid $500 for a half day tutorial and $1000
for a full day tutorial.  SAGE-AU will reimburse tutorial presenters all
reasonable costs of handout materials or will print them on your behalf.

As with papers, tutorials should have a technical orientation and should
not contain advertising.

Conference Details
==================

SAGE-AU'99 will be a 5 day conference running from Monday 5th July to
Friday 9th July, 1999.

The first three days (Monday through Wednesday) will be dedicated to
tutorials on tools and techniques to aid system administration.

The AGM will be held at the end of the fourth day (Thursday 8th).
All other times will be allocated to presentations or discussions.

A conference dinner will be held on the Thursday evening.

The conference will feature a small trade show on the third and fourth days,
focusing on system administration tools and information. 


Exhibition/Trade Show
=====================

On the third and fourth days of the conference (Wednesday and Thursday)
SAGE-AU'99 will host a small, technically orientated trade show focusing
on system administration tools and information.

If you or your company are interested in participating in the trade show
please contact the organisers for details.

Registration
============

Conference registration includes one ticket to the Conference Dinner and
Conference and Tutorial registration includes Lunch and Refreshments.
Additional tickets to the Conference Dinner may be purchased.

Non-members who register for SAGE-AU'99 at the non-member rate and successfully 
apply for membership of SAGE-AU will have their first year's membership fee 
waived.

Registration forms for tutorials will be available approximately six weeks
before the conference date.

Early Registration is considered when registration form and payment has
reached SAGE-AU by COB on 21st May 1999.

Travel
======

To encourage interstate attendees, SAGE-AU offers members a travel discount
off registration for interstate travellers (Tas/WA/SA/NT).

Addresses
=========

Send all enquiries regarding the conference as well as 

Please submit all tutorial and paper abstracts to:
	papers@sage-au.org.au

Media requests for information and general conference enquiries should
be directed to:
	Geoff Halprin
	SAGE-AU'99 Conference Chair
	Email: conference@sage-au.org.au

Requests for general information about SAGE-AU and membership
applications should be addressed to:

WWW:   http://www.sage-au.org.au/
Email: secretary@sage-au.org.au
Fax:   0500 544 488 (Attn: David Conran)
Snail: Secretary
       SAGE-AU
       GPO Box 2974
       Sydney NSW 2001
       Australia

WWW Page
========

A web page for the conference is http://www.sage-au.org.au/conf.html


Discliamer: This information is correct at time of printing, however
SAGE-AU reserves the right to modify this information at any time.
The Web site will always contain the most up-to-date copy of all
conference information.

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