ApacheCon US 2004 Alexis Park Resort Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 13-17 November 2004
The Apache Software Foundation invites you to ApacheCon U.S. 2004. "The only sure thing in Las Vegas" REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please click on the 'Registry' link at the top of <http://www.apachecon.com/>. You will need to log in to the site; if you have never done so before, you will need to create an account. If you already have an account in the ApacheCon system, please do not create another one! Presentations and Tutorials All normal presentations, keynotes, and special events will be held Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (November 15-17). The three days at ApacheCon provide you with a choice of more than 65 talks. The special in-depth tutorials will be held Saturday and Sunday (November 13-14). You can choose between 18 different tutorials. SpamAssassin Sessions! There will be three SpamAssassin sessions at ApacheCon 2004. There will be one 3-hour tutorial and two 1-hour talks on SpamAssassin. T09: SpamAssassin Tutorial Day: Sun Time: 09h00 Session chair: None assigned Duration: 180 minutes Style: Tutorial Level: Novice Audience: Technical Categories: Anti-Spam, New Technologies, Performance, Perl Speaker: Daniel Quinlan Abstract: SpamAssassin is perhaps the most widely deployed anti-spam tool in the world and has long been the gold standard for spam filters. It's open source, extensible, flexible, and very effective. This tutorial will give you the tools you need to make SpamAssassin work well for your site and your users. Topics covered will include: how SpamAssassin works and the SpamAssassin filtering model, SpamAssassin installation and set-up, writing your own rules, debugging problems, analysis and diagnostics, optimizing SpamAssassin performance, the development process, and how to get involved. Also discussed will be current anti-spam best practices that are important for both senders and receivers of email. MO09: New and upcoming features in SpamAssassin v3 Day: Mon Time: 13h30 Session chair: None assigned Duration: 60 minutes Style: Presentation Level: Novice Audience: Technical Categories: Anti-Spam, New Technologies Speaker: Theo Van Dinter Abstract: Almost a year in the making, SpamAssassin v3.0 includes a large number of modifications and new features. This session covers the major changes and features found in v3.0, and will also include discussion about ongoing work for v3.1 and beyond. MO13: Storing SpamAssassin User Data in SQL Databases Day: Mon Time: 14h30 Session chair: None assigned Duration: 60 minutes Style: Presentation Level: Experienced Audience: Technical Categories: Anti-Spam, Databases, New Technologies, Performance, Perl Speaker: Michael Parker Abstract: With the release of SpamAssassin 3.0.0 virtually all user specific data (preferences, AWL and bayes) can be stored in a SQL database. This session will cover basic setup, usage and maintenance of storing data in a SQL database as well as some convenient tools to help. In addition, there will be some discussion about the development process and design along with future directions of the SQL based storage for SpamAssassin. -- Daniel Quinlan http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/
