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WORKSHOP SERIES
Join Your Peers for Three Days of Focused Discussion
- Senior system administrators will want to participate in one or more of these all-day workshops. Attendance is limited to 30 participants for each workshop, which ensures a seminar-like atmosphere. To attend a workshop, you must be a registered conference attendee.
- Please note that these workshops are full-day sessions. Attending a workshop precludes attending any training sessions on that day. See the individual descriptions for information on how to register for a workshop. Accepted registrations will be confirmed by the workshop coordinator.
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Sunday, November 14
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Workshop 1: Configuration Management Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh
9:00 a.m.5:00 p.m., International 1
Specifying the required configurations for large numbers of interconnected
machines, and automatically installing those configurations to produce
reliable "fabrics," have been important topics since the very early LISA
conferences.
This workshop will cover the fundamental problems of current technologies,
and look at the theory and approaches that might lead to a new generation
of configuration languages and tools. The Web page includes a summary
of last year's workshop, an archive of the mailing list, and pointers to
some relevant papers.
To apply, please send a short email to lisa04confwshop@usenix.org, including
a brief description of your areas of interest/experience. If the workshop
is oversubscribed, then preference will be given to those who are active
in the development of configuration tools or theory. Applicants will be
notified by September 30.
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Monday, November 15
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Workshop 2: SysAdmin Education
Curt Freeland, University of Notre Dame; John Sechrest, PEAK Internet Services
9:00 a.m.5:00 p.m., International 1
Curt Freeland and John Sechrest have run the SysAdmin Education Workshop at LISA for 5 years. This workshop is focused on
bringing together people who teach system administration in a
university setting. This year, the focus is on curriculum and
curriculum development.
How do system administration courses work together with other courses? How do
those courses fit into degree programs? How do networking and system
administration classes connect?
Part of the goal of the workshop will be to list existing courses and
programs and to try to expand this list to include system administration education resources.
To register for the workshop, please send an outline of your experience and interest in sysadmin education to lisa04eduwshop@usenix.org.
Workshop 3: AFS
Esther Filderman, The OpenAFS Project; Derrick Brashear, Carnegie Mellon University
9:00 a.m.5:00 p.m., International 2
This workshop for experienced AFS administrators will be a mix of
papers presented by willing participants and active discussion
about
work currently being done, issues in AFS administration, and issues
relating to IBM-AFS, OpenAFS, and Arla.
Writing or presenting a paper is not required, but a willingness to
participate actively in the workshop is essential. For information
about the workshop and how to apply to participate, please see the
AFS Workshop page.
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Tuesday, November 16
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Workshop 4: Advanced Topics
Adam S. Moskowitz, Menlo Computing
9:00 a.m.5:00 p.m., International 1
This one-day workshop, intended for very senior administrators,
provides an informal roundtable discussion of the problems facing
system administrators today. Attendance is limited and based on
acceptance of a position paper (plain ASCII, three paragraphs
maximum); a typical paper covers what the author thinks is the
most difficult or important issue facing system administrators
today, why this is a problem, and why this problem is important.
Please send position papers to
lisa04atwshop@usenix.org.
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