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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!pier2.bayarea.net!gnu From: peter@va.pubnix.com (Peter H. Salus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce Subject: CFP: 2nd Conference on Freely Redistributable Software Date: 10 Oct 1996 18:02:41 -0400 Organization: Pubnix Access Systems (Virginia) Lines: 55 Approved: netbsd-announce-newsgroup@mail.netbsd.org Message-ID: <comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce-gnusenet53jrq1$7en@pub01.va.pubnix.com> Reply-To: confinfo@gnu.ai.mit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: baygate.bayarea.net Originator: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net [ Please repost this wherever you think is appropriate! And/or suggest mailing lists and newsgroups gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu ] CALL FOR PAPERS Second Conference on Freely Redistributable Software Sponsored by the Free Software Foundation and Cygnus Support 19-21 February 1997 San Francisco Hilton, San Francisco Over the past 15 years, free and low-cost software has become ubiquitous. This conference will bring together implementors of several different types of freely redistributable software and publishers of such software (on various media). There will be tutorials and refereed papers, as well as keynotes. The Conference will be held at the San Francisco Hilton, 19-21 February 1997. Papers are invited on any aspect of GNU, Linux, NetBSD, 386BSD, FreeBSD, expect, PERL, tcl/tk, Apache, Kerberos, and other tools for which the code is accessible and redistributable. Extended abstracts are due on or before November 8, 1996. Authors will be notified no later than December 5, 1996. Full papers will be due Thursday, 16 January 1996. Program committee: Michael Tiemann, chair Brian Behlendorf Robert J. Chassell Rich Morin Peter H. Salus Ian Lance Taylor Abstracts of 350-750 words (in troff, PostScript, or straight ASCII, only) should be sent to fsc-1997@cygnus.com. Proposals for tutorials should be sent to Peter H. Salus at peter@gnu.ai.mit.edu immediately -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Peter H. Salus #3303 4 Longfellow Place Boston, MA 02114 peter@pedant.com +1 617 723 3092 -----------------------------------------------------------