Announcement: UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference and Perl 6 Workshop

Paragon Hotel, Birmingham, 24th & 25th February 2005


UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group - recently announced
the programme for their upcoming Winter Conference.  This will take
place at the Paragon Hotel, Birmingham, on Thursday 24th and Friday
25th February 2005.

On Thursday morning, Allison Randal, president of the Perl Foundation
and project manager for Perl 6, will deliver a Perl 6 Workshop. The
theme of the main conference is "Security and Networks".  This begins
on Thursday afternoon with a keynote by Wietse Venema, author of TCP
Wrappers and the Postfix MTA.  The conference also includes speakers
from the OpenBSD and FreeBSD projects; Oracle; Hewlett-Packard;
University of Oxford; University of Cambridge; and many more.

This conference is a must-attend event for system and network
administrators. As well as the technical talks, the conference
provides a friendly environment for delegates to meet, learn and enjoy
lively debate on a host of subjects.

See the conference web site for full details and up-to-date
information: 

  http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/

A conference dinner has been organised for Thursday evening, at
Birmingham's Chung Ying Gardens restaurant;w conference talks continue
on Friday morning, and are followed by a series of lightning talks in
the afternoon.

There are opportunities for sponsoring some aspects of the conference,
and for table-top displays at the venue.  Please contact us to discuss
the possibilities: <winterconf@ukuug.org>

UIT Cambridge have organised an Exim Conference and Tutorial at the
same venue.  This will take place immediately prior to the UKUUG
event, finishing at about midday on Thursday.  See their website for
details:

  http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-conference/

About UKUUG

UKUUG is a non-profit organisation and technical forum for the
advocacy of open systems, particularly Unix and Unix-like operating
systems, the promotion of free and open-source software, and the
advancement of open programming standards and networking protocols.
It is totally funded by membership subscriptions and is completely
independent of specific hardware and software vendors.  All profits
are used to further the activities of the organisation.

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