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LISA '03: 17th Large Installation Systems Administration Conference, October 26-31, 2003, San Diego, CA
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Register Now! Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs)     Current as of 3:30 p.m. 10/30

Tuesday, October 28
ROOM # of Seats (theatre unless noted) 7:00pm – 8:00pm 8:00pm – 9:00pm 9:00pm – 10:00pm 10:00pm – 11:00pm
Royal Palm Salon 1/2 50
Classroom
7:00pm – 8:00pm
N1™ — The Operating System for Network Computing
Charlie Boyle, N1™ Architect
  9:00pm – 10:00pm
DOE Linux Distro Discussion
10:00pm – 11:00pm
Red Hat? What are your plans for Red Hat/Fedora?
John Valdes, University of Chicago
Royal Palm
Salon 3
30
Classroom
7:00pm – 8:00pm
PGP/GPG Key Signing
8:00pm – 9:00pm
The Evil Empire: He Is Your Father, Luke—The Reality of Managing Windows
9:00pm – 10:00pm
LAN Party/Gaming
 
Royal Palm Salon 4 30
Classroom
7:00pm – 8:00pm
San Diego BSD Users Group (SDBUG)
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Postmasters: How to Manage Postmaster Mail
9:00pm – 10:00pm
Large Scale Centralization, 1000+ Servers & Remote Management: Management, Best Practices, etc.
Carlson, Charles Schwab
10:00pm – 11:00pm
Teaching UNIX: Discussion of Techniques, Materials, and Tips for Teaching UNIX at College (or High School) Level
Phil Farrell, Stanford University
Royal Palm Salon 5/6 50
Classroom
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Friends BoF
Trey Harris
   
Windsor Room 150 7:00pm – 8:00pm
USENIX BoF
  9:00pm – 10:00pm
MAC OS X BoF
Leon Towns-von Stauber
10:00pm – 11:00pm
New to LISA/USENIX and Under 30's (Or Think You Are)
Sheffield Room 150 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Annual Backup Technology BoF: The State of Data Protection Industry
Jacob Farmer
   
Hampton Room 150        
Wednesday, October 29
ROOM # of Seats (theatre unless noted) 7:00pm – 8:00pm 8:00pm – 9:00pm 9:00pm – 10:00pm 10:00pm – 11:00pm
Royal Palm
Salon 1
90 7:00pm – 8:00pm
New Directions in Application Protection with LEGATO NetWorker Power Snap
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Blackboard: Come Share Your Triumphs and Nightmares
Joe Morris, UNC Chapel Hill
  10:00pm – 11:00pm
IPSEC/FreeS/WAN
Hugh Daniel
Royal Palm
Salon 2
90 7:00pm – 8:00pm
10 Years Jubilee of Cfengine
Mark Burgess
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Share Your Experiences on Printing, Print Spoolers, and Users: Is There Really a Good and Cheap Color Printer?
9:00pm – 10:00pm
Config. Mgmt. Ext.
Luke Kanies, LSS Conf.
 
Royal Palm
Salon 3
90 7:00pm – 8:00pm
So you want to run a local Sage Group? How to do it and what to expect
Deeann M. M. Mikula & Gus Hartmann
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Security with No Firewall: An Oxymoron?
Claude Cantin
9:00pm – 10:00pm
Women in Linux, UNIX, BohFing, Network Security Sysadmining
V. Navratilova
 
Royal Palm
Salon 4
90 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Howard Dean 2004: Find Out Why So Many People Are Joining the Campaign
8:00pm – 9:00pm
CipherTrust Vendor BoF
9:00pm – 10:00pm
SGI/IRIX: The Company Is Still Alive, So Surely Some of You Are Customers. Hello? Anybody?
Robin Landers, University of Waterloo
 
Royal Palm
Salon 5
90 7:00pm – 8:00pm
MON: Better Monitoring Through Open Source
David Nolan, Carnegie Mellon University
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Configuration Management: Automated Methods of Managing Everything from the Bare Metal Up
Luke Kanies & the LSS Conf. Crew
9:00pm – 11:00pm
Solaris™ x86 Community BoF
Alan Duboff, Phil Brown, and Eric Boutilier
Royal Palm
Salon 6
70 7:00pm – 8:00pm
An Update on Standards (Including ISO Linux)
Nick Stoughton
8:00pm – 9:00pm
Spinnaker Networks NAS Architecture: Clustered NAS for Large Systems
Michael Kazar
9:00pm – 10:00pm
PGP/GPG Keysigning
 
San Diego Room 375 (special addition for SAGE) Room Not Available 9:00pm – 11:00pm
SAGE Community Meeting
Thursday, October 30
ROOM # of Seats (theatre unless noted) 8:00pm – 9:00pm 9:00pm – 10:00pm 10:00pm – 11:00pm
Royal Palm
Salon 1
90 8:00pm – 9:00pm
IL & Chicago SAGE Folks: Any Interested in Reviving ChiSAGE?
Sabrina Howard, University of Chicago
  10:00pm – 11:00pm
Bazaar of the Bizarre: Tales of the Unexplained, Mysterious, and Horror!
Royal Palm
Salon 2
90 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Linux for Playstation 2
Adam Bertsch, Sony Computer Entertainment U.S. R&D
9:00pm – 10:00pm
Veritas: Everything But Net Backup, VXVM, VCS, VXFS, WVR, DBGD
Doug Hughes
10:00pm – 11:00pm
Job Seekers & People Hiring (Come Talk to People about Finding a Job)
Royal Palm
Salon 3
90 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Usability for Admins: How to Get It & the Benefits of Participating in Usability Research "Not a Myth"
9:00pm – 10:00pm
Politech (Politics and Technology): Where We've Been, Where We're Going
Declan McCullagh
 
Royal Palm
Salon 4
90 8:00pm – 9:00pm
When Students Cause Problems: Copyright, Hacking, Viruses, Patching, Bandwidth, Hogs, etc.
9:00pm – 10:00pm
Central Patch Management: Is Anyone Doing It Successfully?
 
Royal Palm
Salon 5
90 8:00pm – 9:00pm
Large Web Services
   
Royal Palm
Salon 6
70 8:00pm – 9:00pm
San Diego & Atlanta Area SAGE
Deeann M. M. Mikula, SAGE
9:00pm – 10:00pm
PC Netlink: Any Users? Share Your Experiences
 

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