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Re: LISA: sysadmin conference, take 16.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Thu Aug 15 19:34:12 2002

In-Reply-To: <20020815123003.Y40634-100000@kod.inch.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:18:37 +0200
To: Gerald <gcoon@inch.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


At 12:37 PM -0400 2002/08/15, Gerald wrote:

>  How can an individual that has passed beyond "student" status afford the
>  costs of LISA? I'm already a Usenix member in good standing, but even at
>  those rates, to attend the whole week is quite expensive for an
>  individual. (It's about equal to my rent here in NYC which isn't cheap)

	Simple -- you get them to invite you to give a talk, or you 
submit a paper that is good enough to be accepted for presentation at 
the conference.  The first time I was successful at doing this for 
LISA was at LISA 2000, with my talk "The Design and Implementation of 
Highly Scalable E-Mail Systems".

	I will be speaking again at LISA 2002, this time on "Domain Name 
Server Comparison: BIND 8 vs. BIND 9 vs. djbdns vs. ???", and 
according to the page at 
<http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/tech/techwed.html>, they would 
appear to have given me ninety minutes of time.  Interesting, when I 
first submitted the proposal, they asked me if I preferred a short 
(20 min) slot or a long (30 min) slot.  And they never did tell me 
how much time I would be getting....

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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