This is to announce that the 2014 European AFS and Kerberos Conference will take place at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, from Wednesday 26th to Friday 28th March 2014, so mark your calendars!
The conference website is already available via
https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=271400
The important dates for the event are:
8 Nov 2013: Abstract submission opens
Beginning of Dec 2013: Registration opens
24 Jan 2014: Abstract submission closes
31 Jan 2014: Registration with CERN hostel booking closes
28 Feb 2014: Registration closes
26 - 28 Mar 2014: Conference
The call for abstracts is already open and so please feel free to submit your
presentation proposals via the 'Call for abstracts/Submit a new abstract'
tab on the event website.
As usual, the conference will examine the development outlook for AFS
and Kerberos implementations, it will highlight current projects and will offer
space to proposals and new ideas. Also, sites will be able to present their
AFS and Kerberos activities in site reports.
Come talk to your peers in general about:
- Completed projects
- Work in progress
- Case studies
- Best practices
- Related research
- Theories, new ideas
- Updates on previous talks
or anything else of note involving AFS and/or Kerberos.
The conference is open to address themes such as:
- Performance tuning and benchmarking
- Diagnostic, service monitoring and troubleshooting
- Scalability and high availability issues
- Unique methods of AFS/Kerberos environment Backups
- Web integration
- Delegated administration and user management
- Access control and related authorization services
- Related tools for end-users, admins and programmers
- Single Sign-On strategies
- Cross cell/realm trust in real world
- PKI and alternate security mechanism integration
- Interoperability: supplements and competitors
- Work on new features
If you have any questions concerning the event, please do not hesitate to
contact
the local organization committee at [email protected].
Looking forward to see you in March at CERN!
The EAKC 2014 local organizing committee
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