Call for Papers in PDF Format

FREENIX REFEREED TRACK

FREENIX is the showcase for the latest developments and interesting software applications in a form that is being freely redistributed. The FREENIX forum includes Apache, FreeBSD, GNOME, GNU, KDE, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Samba, and more. The FREENIX track attempts to cover the full range of software which is freely redistributable in source code form and provides pointers to where the code can be found on the Internet. Clem Cole is serving as FREENIX program chair.

Submissions to the general session refereed track are expected to represent mature work for which the authors are ready to fully describe the background, new ideas, experiments, and results of their work. By contrast, the FREENIX track seeks to gather reports on projects that are current and solidly underway, but may not yet be 100% finished. This differs from a Works-In-Progress session which is really a poster for ideas.

FREENIX is looking for paper about projects with a solid emphasis on nurturing the open source/freely available software community. The purpose for the FREENIX papers is not as wholly an archival reference, but rather a place to let others know about the project on which you are working and to provide a forum from which to expand your user base.

We are looking for talks which advance the state of the art of freely redistributable software or otherwise provide useful information to those faced with deploying (and selling) free software in the field.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Operating system design
• Network design and implementation
• File system design
• Highly-available systems
• Highly-scalable systems
• Graphical user interface tools
• Desktop metaphors
• File and print systems
• System management tools
• Security
• Large scale system management
• Interesting deployments of free software
• How free software is being developed and managed today

Interesting applications of freely redistributable software might include: robotics and automation, clustering, wearable computers, embedded systems, automation, high-speed networking, studio graphics, and video or audio processing.

Cash prizes will be awarded for the best paper and the best paper by a student.

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