Deadline Approaching for the LOPSA-East CFP

From our friends at LOPSA, a reminder that the Call for Participation deadline for LOPSA-EAST '14 is Friday, January 31, 2014. USENIX is pleased to be an in-cooperation sponsor.


*** CALL *** FOR *** PARTICIPATION ***

The organizers of the LOPSA-East Professional IT Community Conference invite you to submit proposals for presentations at LOPSA-EAST '14!

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LOPSA-EAST '14 is a gathering of professionals from the diverse IT (computer and network administration) community in New Jersey to learn, share ideas, and network. The conference includes invited speakers and keynotes, training by top-notch experts that is relevant, useful, and recession-friendly; plus a 'Birds of a Feather' track where attendees propose and host their own topics during the event.

We go by many titles but everyone is invited:system administrators, network administrators, DevOps, SREs, engineers, Windows, Linux, Unix, DBAs, etc.
We welcome topics on best practices, new developments in systems administration, and cutting edge techniques to better manage Linux, Unix, or Windows hosts and environments.

All presentations should be of a technical nature and speakers should assume that members of the audience have at least a few years experience in general IT, Linux/Unix, and/or Windows administration.

The audience will primarily hail from businesses and academic institutions in the New Jersey/New York/Pennsylvania/Maryland area but attracts people from Maine to Florida.

Important Dates:
Deadline for all Submissions – Friday, January 31st, 2014 (midnight EST)
Decisions Sent to All Submitters – Monday, February 10th, 2014
Schedule Published – Monday, February 17th, 2014 (approximate)
Registration Opens – Friday, February 24th, 2014 (approximate)
LOPSA-EAST ‘14 Conference – Friday, May 2nd – Saturday, May 3rd **SAVE** **THIS** **DATE**

We look forward to seeing your submissions! Please email all submissions and questions to submissions2014@lopsaeast.org.