Philip Hazel ran an Exim course last week in Robinson College
in Cambridge, and several people expressed interest in a more
general conference-style event. Philip isn't interested in
organizing it himself, but we here at UIT (who publish Philip's
Exim book) are considering taking it on.
The call for papers (below) outlines what it might offer.
If you might be interested in attending, please let me know. We'll
have to book a venue long in advance, so we need to get a feel for the
numbers that might be involved. (Of course, at this stage nothing you
say commits you definitely, but we must know if we'll be looking for a
venue for 50 people or 500!)
All comments gratefully received.
Thanks,
Niall
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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
