This came to me from Oreilly today. If you have a company or a personal interest in making a presentation, answer them directly. Jerry >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 14 17:02:33 2001 >Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:59:39 -0800 (PST) >From: Denise Olliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: O'Reilly Seeks Participants for 2nd P2P Conference > >CALL FOR PARTICIPATION >The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference >Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC >September 17-20, 2001 > >PROPOSALS DUE: April 2, 2001 > >OVERVIEW > >O'Reilly & Associates is pleased to announce its second Peer-to-Peer >and Web Services conference, an event exploring the technical, >business, and legal dimensions of the fast-growing Peer-to-Peer and Web >Services spaces. > >Individuals and companies interested in making presentations, giving a >tutorial, or participating in panel discussions are invited to submit >proposals. > >SUBJECT MATTER > >Because the Peer-to-Peer and Web Services spaces are still relatively >unformed, we're casting the net widely. Any innovative application that >harnesses the power of distributed computers, users, services, or >devices, and the technical, business, or legal issues raised by such >applications, are appropriate subjects for this conference. > >While the conference will consist of various tracks informed by the >subject matter of the submissions, presentations are expected to lean >more toward the technical or business/legal side. Technical >presentations should be of interest to developers and administrators of >Internet applications and infrastructure. Business/legal focused >presentations should appeal to entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, >technical strategists, lawmakers and law-breakers. > >PROPOSALS > >Proposed talks should be 20, 30, or 60 minutes long. If you are >interested in participating in or moderating panel discussions or >otherwise contributing to the conference, please do make this known >along with your preferred technical or business slant. If you have an >idea for a particularly provocative group of panelists that you'd love >to see square off, feel free to send in your suggestions. > >LIGHTNING TALKS > >Lightning talks give you a whirlwind tour of companies, projects (both >completed and not), research, experiments, and interesting ideas in the >Peer-to-Peer and Web Services spaces. Each Lightning Talk session gives >a dozen presenters an opportunity to give a 5-minute elevator pitch. > >There are three Lightning Talk tracks: > >- Technical >- Business >- "Wobbly Bits" > >The last track is a space for unfinished, unpolished, possibly >abandoned, in-need-of-help, and other "wobbly" projects. Presenters >should talk about what they've learned, what they've solved or >overcome, ongoing issues and tribulations, the current state of their >project, what bits are needed, and so on. > >Sessions will be wrapped up with a panel discussion. > >Presentations should be informative, creative, and/or entertaining. > >DETAILS > >For further information, topic examples, and proposal details and >instructions, please visit > >http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/call_fall.html. > >If you have any questions, feel free to send email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jerry Kubeck Customer Support Appropriate Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.AppropriateSolutions.com ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
