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SAGE-AU Sixth Annual Conference and General Meeting
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Dates: Tuesday 7/7/1998 to Friday 10/7/1998

Venue: Old Parliament House
       Canberra, ACT,
       Australia

Call for Papers and Tutorials
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The System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU) will be hosting its
sixth annual conference in conjunction with its 1998 annual general meeting.

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.

SAGE-AU'98 is hereby calling for papers and tutorial presentations on any
and all topics related to system administration.

Deadlines
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Applications to present tutorials and papers must reach the organisers by
April 3, 1998.

To be included in the conference proceedings, papers must reach the
organisers by June 19, 1998.

Conference Details
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SAGE-AU'98 will be a 4 day conference running from Tuesday July 7, 1998 to
Friday July 10, 1998.

The first two days (Tuesday & Wednesday) will be dedicated to tutorials on
tools and techniques to aid system administration.

The AGM will be held at the end of the third day (Thursday).
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.

Papers
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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).

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 an abstract to the address below by the
due date. Please indicate whether you are asking for a 15, 30, 45 or 60 minute
timeslot.

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

People giving 30+ minute presentations will be expected to provide a paper
for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

Tutorials
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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 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 and will receive free conference registration.
SAGE-AU will reimburse tutorial presenters for 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.

Exhibition/Trade Show
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On the third and fourth days of the conference (Thursday and Friday)
SAGE-AU'98 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
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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'98 at the non-member rate and successfully
apply for membership of SAGE-AU will have their first year's membership fee
waived.

Conference registration forms will be available in mid May 1998.

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 19th of June 1998.

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

Addresses
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Send all enquiries regarding the conference as well as tutorial and paper
abstracts to:

SAGE-AU'98
GPO Box 2984
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia

E-Mail: 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 2984
       Sydney NSW 2001
       Australia

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