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LISA 2001, 15th Systems Administration Conference, December 2-7, 2001, San Diego, CA
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Current Birds-of-a-Feather Schedule (as of 27 November 2001)

Check the BoF Board in the Registration area for any changes and additions.
To schedule a BoF, please see the registration desk.

Tuesday, December 4
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Everything You Wanted to Know About Solaris Administration Documentation But Were Afraid to Ask
Kathy Slattery, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sheffield Room

7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Sun-Manager's BoF
John DiMarco, Sun Manager's Mailing List Co-Maintainer
Royal Palms Salon 5 and 6

7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Deployment Strategies for Network and Server-Side Caching
Greg Govatos, VP, Chutney Technologies
Royal Palms Salon 3
7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Designing systems for sysadmins: a roundtable on sysadmin-friendly server architectures
Aaron Brown and Dave Patterson, UC Berkeley
Royal Palms Salon 4
7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Annual Backup BOF: State of the Backup Industry
Jacob Farmer, CTO Cambridge Computer
Royal Palms Salon 1 and 2
7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Is NetWorker making a comeback?
W. Curtis Preston, The Storage Group, Inc.
Windsor Room
7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Workplace Issues
Trey Harris, SAGE Executive Committee
Hampton Room
8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Vulnerability Handling at the CERT/CC
Jeffrey P. Lanza, CERT Coordination Center
Sheffield Room
9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Mac OS X
Leon Towns-von Stauber, Occams' Razor
Sheffield Room
9:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m. Documentation Strategies for System Teams
Adele Shakal, California Institute of Technology
Royal Palms Salon 1 and 2
Wednesday, December 5th
7:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Catastrophic Failure and Business Recovery: Lessons Learned from the World Trade Center Disaster
William Spendlove, Product Marketing Manager, Legato Systems Inc.

SAGE Community Meeting

IP Telephony
Leon Towns-von Stauber, Occam's Razor

7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. NetBackup today and tomorrow
W. Curtis Preston, The Storage Group, Inc.
7:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. IETF Network Management People meet LISA Network/System Administrators
Juergen Schoenwaelder, Technical University Braunschweig
8:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. SAGE Certification
Gale Berkowitz, USENIX

Big Storage- Small Budget: Strategies for Building Multi-Terabyte Data Repositories on a Limited Budget
Jacob Farmer, CTO Cambridge Computer

FAI - a fully automatic installation tool for Linux
Thomas Lange, University of Cologne

8:00 p.m.–9:30 p.m. What is Python?
Wesley J. Chun, CyberWeb Consulting
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Sun Community Activities: Freeware; BigAdmin; Enterprise Management Technologies
Eric Boutilier, Matt Ruetz, and Eric Nielsen, Sun Microsystems
9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Mirapoint's Approach to Internet Message Routing with LDAP
Jim Hickstein, Mirapoint

USENIX/New Ideas BOF

Thursday, December 6th
9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Plans and Facts regarding RRDtool 1.2
Tobias Oetiker, ISG.EE Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Jake Brutlag, WebTV / Microsoft

How do YOU manage to not get spammed?
Deeann Mikula, Telerama Internet, Pittsburgh, PA

Chigrp - Chicagoland SAGE local - Another Resurrection
Paul Rak, ACNielsen

9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. The Professionalization of Systems Administration: Issues and Concerns
Mark C. Langston

"Infrastructures.Org"
Steve Traugott, TerraLuna

The Reality of SANs and NAS
W. Curtis Preston, The Storage Group, Inc.


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