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HOW TO SUBMIT TO THE FREENIX REFEREED TRACK

Authors will be notified of receipt of submission via e-mail. If you do not receive notification, contact: freenix01chair@usenix.org.

You may submit a full paper, however we expect that most submissions will be 1-3 page summaries of your work to date - aka extended abstracts. Please provide enough detail to let us know what you are doing. In no event should you submit a description in excess of 14 pages.

Specific questions about submissions may be sent to the program chair via email to: freenix01chair@usenix.org.

A good submission will clearly demonstrate that the authors:

• are attacking a significant problem that has general interest to the Freenix community,
• are actively working on a solution, and
• have made enough progress to have useful information to report in a formal paper.

In particular, the FREENIX track is not for people that are thinking about doing some project, but have not yet started it. Such talks are better presented in the Work-In-Progress (WIP) session.

Authors will be notified by January 31, 2001. All accepted submissions will be expected to produce a written report for the proceedings. These reports must be reviewed and accepted by the paper's shepherds by April 16, 2001. After shepherd approval, the reports then must be submited with the standard release forms to the USENIX publications office by May 1, 2001. If you would like to avoid future formatting changes, you may consult a predefined template which formats according to the USENIX guidelines: StarWriter 5.0, Troff, LaTeX and style file, Framemaker.

These reports need not be as polished papers as would be submitted to the general session refereed track, although the higher quality submissions are often better recieved by the community. The papers should describe work that has been completed as of the time of their submission. The purpose of your paper is to let readers and attendees know what you are doing. Your talk at the conference may describe not only what is in your paper but also the work completed between the time that the paper is submitted and the conference is held. Members of the program committee will help shepherd authors through the writing process prior to final acceptance for publication in the proceedings.

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