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- From: barb@bruno.cs.colorado.edu (Barb Dyker)
- Subject: Free Registration to Usenix LISA VI Conference Technical Talks
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.234349.13872@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 23:43:49 GMT
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- ------------------ Call for Terminal Room Volunteers ------------
-
-
- For the first time, LISA will have a Terminal Room. If you work in the
- Terminal Room for 10 hours you will receive free registration to the
- Technical Talks (Wed - Fri). We need a total of eight people. The
- terminal room will be open:
-
- October 19 Monday 11:30 am - 2:00 am
- 20 Tuesday 9:30 am - 2:00 am
- 21 Wednesday 7:30 am - 2:00 am
- 22 Thursday 7:30 am - 2:00 am (closed 6-8 pm for the Reception)
- 23 Friday 7:30 am - 2:00 pm
-
- An interested applicant should be able to (minimally):
-
- * Answer questions on use of terminal room equipment.
- Manuals on terminal/modem/printer operation will be provided.
-
- * Manage a queue (of people) waiting to use the equipment.
-
- If you are interested in working, please fill in the following and
- return it to barb@cs.colorado.edu. All applications must be received by
- Monday, September 21st 5:00 pm PST.
-
- Your 10 hours of work will entitle you to free registration for the
- Technical Talks ONLY! You will need to make other arrangements for
- transportation, accomodation, and tutorial registration.
-
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- Name:
- Address:
- City/State/country/zip or postal code:
- Email Address (25 chars or less):
- Phone number (daytime and hours you can be reached):
-
- 1) Will you be able to attend the LISA Conference if you are not chosen to
- work in the terminal room? absolutely/probably/maybe/no way
-
- 2) Are you a student?
- a) If you are a student, have you applied for a student scholarship for this
- conference?
-
- 3) Are you planning to take tutorials? If so, which days?
-
- 4) Have you attended a Usenix LISA conference before?
-
- 5) Have you attended any Usenix conference before?
-
- 6) If you are chosen to work in the terminal room when would you arrive
- in Long Beach?
-
- 7) Are there particular talks that you don't want to miss:
- (List day and time; Refer to the abbreviated schedule at the end of this
- posting for times)
-
- 8) Are there other talks that you'd prefer not to miss, but would miss if
- necessary ?
-
- 9) Are there other times that you know you will NOT want to work: e.g.
- do you hate to get up before noon, or stay up past 10pm, or do you
- have other commitments that would prevent you from working at some other
- particular time.
-
- 10) Please describe in one paragraph why you want to work in the terminal
- room and what your qualifications are?
-
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- I will send an acknowledgement within a week of receiving your application.
-
- Applications will be chosen based on a combination of factors which include
- (not necessarily in this order):
- an inability to attend the conference otherwise
- hours available for work (and flexibility of those hours)
- student status
- level of interest in helping conference attendees
-
-
- -----------------------------------------
- Abbreviated Technical Talks Schedule
-
- WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21
-
- 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote
- 10:30 - 11:30 NFS and Workstation Performance I
- 1:00 - 2:00 NFS and Workstation Performance II
- 2:30 - 4:00 UNIX as the All-Purpose Computing Environment
- 4:30 - 5:30 System Administration Training and Customer Satisfaction
- 6:00 - 10:00 Birds of a Feather Sessions
-
- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22
-
- 9:30 - 10:30 Mass Host Configuration and Duplication I
- 11:00 - 12:00 Mass Host Configuration and Duplication II
- 1:30 - 3:30 System Administration Potpourri I
- 4:00 - 5:30 Distributed Software Management I
-
- FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23
-
- 9:30 - 11:00 Distributed Configuration Management
- 11:30 - 12:30 Monitoring System and User Problems
- 2:00 - 4:00 System Administration Potpourri II
- 4:30 - 5:30 Distrubuted Software Management II
-
-
- ---------------------------------
- To receive a brochure and information on registration and hotel,
- please contact:
-
- USENIX Conference Office
- 22672 Lambert St., Suite 613
- El Toro, CA 92630
- Telephone # (714) 588-8649
- FAX # (714) 588-9706
- email address: conference@usenix.org
-
- --
- Barbara J. Dyker Department of Computer Science
- Computer Systems Manager Campus Box 430B, ECEE00-69
- barb@cs.colorado.edu University of Colorado
- (303) 492-2545 Boulder, CO 80309-0430
-