Data Circle

I forgot to mention this earlier, but bookings for the UKUUG Spring 2010 conference are now open. Taking place in Manchester on 23-25 March, the programme includes such talks as:

• The Perdition and nginx IMAP Proxies (Jan-Piet Mens)
• Don’t be scared of SELinux (James Firth)
• Hudson hit my puppet with a cucumber (Patrick Debois and Julian Simpson)
• MySQL HA with pacemaker (Kris Buytaert)

A full list can be found on the provisional programme. There will also be a social event on the Tuesday night which is open to all, including those who cannot attend the conference itself.

Update: Correction on dates, I originally said the conference would be 24-26 March but it will actually take place on 23-25 March.

Just a quick reminder for anyone who I haven’t emailed already that the Call for Papers for the UKUUG Spring 2010 conference is still open—submission deadline is 15 November 2009.

For those of you who were not able to make it to OpenTech 2008, or want to listen again, audio recordings of many of the talks are now available from the OpenTech website. I’m not sure if other talks are going to be uploaded soon (the session I was chairing was definitely recorded, though the microphones were a bit iffy) but the ones which are already online are well worth listening to.

Spring 2009 is the next annual UKUUG Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference, organised by yours truly (with help and assistance from many others). Scheduled to be held in London from the 24th to the 26th March 2009 (venue to be confirmed), this time the conference will be focusing on security and system administration. The call for papers is now open, so if you are interested in giving a talk or delivering a tutorial session, we’d love to hear from you.

Linux 2008 is the latest in a series of conferences run by the UKUUG. This year it is going to be held in Manchester, so I will probably be around, and the Call For Papers is now available. The closing date is the 18th August, so you have some time to submit an abstract, and the final papers are due by the 20th October (which, coincidentally, is my birthday).