> Where and when will the fall meeting take place ?
Arrangements have been held up. We have a site which was offered at the
last conference (IBM, Boca Raton FL). Unfortunately, the folks who made
the offer, and their manager very recently left the company and/or site
and that's mucked up arrangements. :-/
In any case, I have established contact with new representatives at
IBM Boca and expect some sort of confirmation from them that we're
moving ahead. This should come tomorrow. My intent is to have
a site and date before the end of the week,
The exact date for the conference will depend heavily on the
site-sponsor, but I anticipate that early December or sometime in
January are the most likely times.
The plan for the program is to offer two tracks throughout the
conference. Track I will focus on topics of a more general or
introductory nature (AFS/DFS overviews, basic management issues) and
Track II will be of a more technical (esoteric?) nature (Advanced
tuning, source mods, Kerberos technicalities).
There will, of course, be work-in-progress (WIP) and birds-of-a-feather
(BOF) sessions. These may appear as one or two tracks. I'd like to
suggest a series of site-perspectives from several AFS sites - perhaps
as a panel discussion in Track I. It's interesting to see how different
sites are utilizing and managing AFS.
As soon as I have positive confirmation of a date and place, I'll
forward the information and issue a call for papers and presentations.
If you have preferences toward one date or another, drop me an email
note. If you have a paper or presentation you'd like to get slotted
now, feel free to drop me a line (I hesitate to push for papers and such
until the physical arrangements are more certain). If you'd like to be
part of a site-perspective panel, drop me a line.
Also, I look forward to any comments, ideas, etc you might have as well
as any offers to help with the program, be a session moderator, etc,
etc... drop me a line!
Martin
AFSUG Winter '92 Chair
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Martin R. Calsyn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project Vincent Systems Support
Iowa State University Computation Center voice: (515) 294-9889
Ames, Iowa 50011 fax: (515) 294-1717
