While reading the rules, several questions popped up in my head.

I have been working for a while on the subject of Linux & Microsoft
interoperability and Single Sign-On (SSO) in middle to large scale
environments and was considering suggesting this topic as a lecture for
Haifux or any other body interested in the subject. While I am willing to
suggest this topic to technical-academic track, I find the rules pretty
restrictive when addressing this specific topic. My comments are inline.

Regards,
Guy

[snip]
> Any software presented has to be licensed under an open source
> license, as defined by http://opensource.org/licenses/.
> 
[Guy] While the topic concentrates on open source technologies like
OpenLDAP, MIT Kerberos, Samba, etc, you can't present it without having
Microsoft infrastructure being addressed and presented.
To demonstrate SSO, I would need to also demonstrate technologies like
Active Directory, client computers from the both sides and so on...
The rule above basically prevents me from participating.

[snip]
> Along with the proposal, you will need to submit an abstract and a
> biography, which will be published on our website and in the program,
> should the proposal be accepted.

[Guy] I am working for a company which does not allow me giving external
consulting (when not representing the company) and being affiliated with it
at the same time. While I think that there is quite a bunch of people that
would like to hear about the topic, I can not allow that solution, tools,
approaches, will be affiliated with the company I work for. 
Publishing my biography is associating me with my employee. As I see it,
this can be addressed in one of 2 ways:
- not specifying the employer names 
- stating up front that all ideas presented in this topic should not be
affiliated with my employer and my employer is not responsible, bla bla
bla...

> Papers may be submitted either in English or in Hebrew. Papers can be
> submitted in latex or LyX or open-office using the template from the
> website.
> 
> Papers must be submitted using free fonts.
> 
[Guy] While putting things on paper is a common academy approach, we,
techees, tend to understand things better while actually seeing things at
work. And here I can not promise the use of only open source software (see
my comments above).



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