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'99 Annual Technical Conference
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Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)
Do you have a topic that you'd like to discuss with others? The always-popular evening Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic. BoFs are open to all attendees. Topics are announced at the conference.

BoFs are available on the following evenings of our Conference:
Tuesday, June 8, 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Wednesday*, June 9, 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Thursday, June 10, 6:00pm - 10:00pm
*Please remember that USENIX will hold their reception at the Monterey Bay Aquarium from 8pm - 10pm on Wednesday.

It is not too late to schedule a BoF session. Contact the USENIX Conference Office at conference@usenix.org or telephone 949.588.8649 to make arrangements.

Pre-Scheduled BoFs to Date (as of June 10, 1999)
Tuesday, June 8, 1999
*  6:00pm - 7:00pm
Beowulf Transparent Process Migration
Jeff Moyer, Compaq
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel

MOTSS
Josh Simon, Collective Technologies
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel

*  6:00pm - 8:00pm
Programming ACEnic Drivers and Firmware
Ted Schroeder, Alteon WebSystems
Los Angeles Room, Marriott Hotel

Perl
Tom Christiansen, Author and Lecturer
San Carlos I, Marriott Hotel

* 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Web Enable Applications Without Touching Your Code
Rob Currey, GraphOn Corp
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel

File System Futures
Mark Maybee, Sun Microsystems
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel

* 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Open Meeting with the USENIX Board of Directors
USENIX Board of Directors
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel

Threads
Bil Lewis, Lambda Computer Science
Los Angeles Room, Marriott Hotel

Distributed File Systems AFS/DFS/CODA
Frank Guarino, JPL
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel

* 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Tcl/Tk
John Ousterhout, Scriptics Corporation
San Carlos I, Marriott Hotel

NetBSD
David Brownlee, The NetBSD Project
San Carlos III, Marriott Hotel

* 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Alpha Linux
Eric Bohm, MEDE America
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel

Free Software: Saving the World and Making Money at the Same Time?
Brock Lynn, Louisiana State University
Los Angeles Room, Marriott Hotel

Arla/AFS and Heimdal/Kerberos
Assar Westerlund, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel

Wednesday, June 9, 1999
* 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Open Source: Open for Business?
Annelise Anderson, Stanford University
San Carlos IV, Marriott Hotel

* 10:00pm - 11:00pm
International Obfuscated C Code Contest
Landon Curt Noll, IOCC
San Carlos IV, Marriott Hotel

Thursday, June 10, 1999
* 6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Internet Software Consortium DHCP Distribution
Ted Lemon, Internet Engines, Inc.
San Carlos I, Marriott Hotel

Update on Standards
Nick Stoughton, USENIX Standard Liaison
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel

FreeBSD Project
Jordan Hubbard, FreeBSD Project
San Carlos III, Marriott Hotel

SourceXchange: How to Get Paid for Open Source Development
Brian Behlendorf, New Ventures, O'Reilly & Associates
San Carlos IV, Marriott Hotel

LDAP
Branson Matheson, Ferguson Enterprises
Bonsai I, DoubleTree Hotel

* 6:00pm - 8:00pm
The Bazaar and Cathedral in Symbiosis
Ron Record, SCO
Co-hosted by the open source development community
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel

* 7:00pm - 8:00pm
SAGE
Peg Schafer, SAGE Executive Committee
San Carlos I, Marriott Hotel

Fifteen Years of Free Software: From Old to GNU
Robert Chassell and Miguel de Icaza, Free Software Foundation
San Carlos IV, Marriott Hotel

The Daemon News, BSD Online Magazine
Chris Coleman, Editor, Daemon News
Bonsai III, DoubleTree Hotel

Secure Linux Distribution
Jon Lasser, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
Los Angeles Room, Marriott Hotel

XFree86 - moving towards version 4.0
Dirk Hohndel, SuSE
San Carlos III, Marriott Hotel

BSDI Update
Mike Karels, Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Santa Barbara Room, Marriott Hotel

DEBIAN
Steve McIntyre, Allstor Software
Bonsai I, DoubleTree Hotel

* 8:00pm - 9:00pm
OpenBSD
Theo De Raadt, OpenBSD
San Carlos II, Marriott Hotel

Legends of USENET and IRC
Josh Geller, African Sky Internet
Bonsai III, DoubleTree Hotel

* 8:00pm - 10:00pm
A History of UNIX at Berkeley
Marshall Kirk McKusick, Author and Lecturer
Serra Grand Ballroom II, Monterey Conference Center

Linux
Linus Torvalds, Transmeta
Jon "maddog" Hall, Linux International
Serra Grand Ballroom I, Monterey Conference Center

* 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Bwana Internet
Josh Geller, African Sky Internet
Bonsai III, DoubleTree Hotel



 


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