Call For Papers
The call for papers has now closed
Summer 2009 will take place at the Birmingham Conservatoire from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th August. The conference this year will have a choice of conference streams, and we are particularly keen to get other groups and projects involved.
We invite speakers on all aspects of UNIX, GNU/LINUX, & other free/open-source projects, including:
- GNU/Linux - Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE
Telephony - Asterisk, OpenMoko, Android
- TeX and typesetting
- Drupal
- Games
- System and network management – OpenNMS, ...
- FLOSS languages - Eiffel, Python, Lua, Perl et al
- Databases – MySQL, PostgreSQL, ...
- Other – mapping, ...
Any topic likely to be of interest to Free Software communities – developers. Administrators, and enthusiasts -- will be considered.
Abstracts: Abstracts for a conference paper should include a short biography, and be about 250-500 words long. Final papers should normally last about 45 minutes, including 10 minutes for questions and answers. If you need more time for your presentation, please tell us when you submit your abstract.
Abstracts should be submitted to the conference organisers electronically to: summer2009@ukuug.org
We shall acknowledge all submissions.
Closing date for abstracts (extended): 14 July 2009
Accepted authors notified by: 21 July 2009
Final papers due by: 30 July 2009
Particular queries should be sent either to the UKUUG office, or to the Summer 2009 programme committee at summer2009@ukuug.org