Exim Conference 2005
Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
Purpose:
* provide a forum to discuss practical experiences using Exim,
for a wide range of users, from ISPs to tiny sites
* offer tutorials on specific Exim topics that are widely
requested or very relevant at the time (e.g. spam filtering
today)
* provide a venue for the Exim community, for informal
networking and meeting socially
* complement Phil Hazel's excellent courses on Exim, not
replace them.
Location:
Cambridge, England
Duration & date:
Target date is near Easter 2005, i.e. late March or early April
We'll aim for a two-day event, on a Thursday and Friday, so if
people can easily add a day or two's sightseeing at the end
if they want to.
Timetable:
---------- Day-0 ----------
Evening (Optional evening meal for early arrivals, so
people can meet up if they want to.)
---------- Day-1 ----------
Morning Choice of two tutorials:
1. Introductory
(e.g. setting up a basic configuration file for a
simple Exim site)
2. Advanced.
(e.g. Spam and virus scanning with Exim)
Afternoon Conference papers
BOFs ( 17:00 - 18:30)
Evening Social event / conference dinner
---------- Day-2 ----------
All day Conference papers (until about 16:00)
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Call for papers, tutorials, BOF topics
Please e-mail Niall Mansfield (nmm (AT) uit.co.uk) with:
* subject/summary of a paper if you'd consider giving
a talk at the conference
* suggestions for tutorials
* suggestions for BOFs
* any other ideas
Further information:
Mailing list:
To be kept informed of developments, we'll set up
a mailing list. E-mail exim-conf-request (AT) uit.co.uk
if you want to be added. (We'll set up a proper
mailman list in due course.)
Web pages:
http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-conference
