Call for Technical Papers - SAGE-AU'2006

[David Purdue]

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                2006 Australian System Administration Conference
                                 presented by
               System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU)
                           Canberra, 24-28 July 2006

                           http://conf.sage-au.org.au

                         1st Call for Technical Papers

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Conference Background
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The 2006 Australian System Administration Conference is the premier 
Systems Administration event in the Asia-Pacific region.  The conference 
offers a premium educational forum for System Administrators of all 
platforms and levels of experience, and an excellent opportunity to 
meet, network and learn from acknowledged experts in the field.


Conference Dates & Location
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The 2006 Australian System Administration Conference will consist of 5 
days of Tutorials and Technical Program sessions.

The conference will be held from Monday 24th July to Friday 28th July, 
2006. The Technical Program will be held on Thursday 27th July to Friday 
28th July 2006 inclusive.

Tutorials will be run on the first three days (Monday to Wednesday) 
covering both technical and non-technical aspects of System Administration.

The final two days (Thursday and Friday) will be dedicated to the 
Technical Program covering both technical and non-technical aspects of 
System Administration.

The conference will be held in Canberra, Australia's national capital.

The venue will be the Chifley on Northbourne, a central location in 
Canberra's Civic (CBD) area.

The hotel's website is:

http://www.constellationhotels.com/hotels/chifleyhotels?cid=64&pid=1230



Call for Technical Papers
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The 2006 Australian System Administration Conference is hereby calling 
for papers on topics relevant to the profession of System Administration.

Papers should have a technical or managerial System Administration 
orientation, and should not contain advertising.


Submitting a Technical Paper for Consideration
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Technical Papers will be of 30 minute duration. 5-10 minutes should be 
reserved for questions from the audience.

If you wish to present a paper, please complete the submission form 
which can be found at: http://www.sage-au.org.au/conf/tech-submit.html 
by the closing date (28 February 2006).

Authors will be notified of whether their submission has been accepted 
or rejected.

A draft paper is also submitted to allow the conference committee to 
provide feedback and assistance.  The Program Committee will assist 
authors in organising their work to help ensure the quality of papers 
and preparedness of authors.

All authors giving Technical Papers will be expected to provide a final 
"camera ready" paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

This final copy must be submitted in an approved format (see "Author 
Guidelines").

Authors should note that formal papers are required - submissions 
consisting solely of presentation slides are insufficient.

Important note:  Authors whose submissions are accepted are expected to 
follow the published deadlines, and to present the result of their work 
at the Conference.  To assist in this, authors may be assigned "mentors".


Important Dates
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Call for Technical Papers Issued			28 December 2005
Technical Paper Proposals Due				28 February 2006
Provisional Notification Issued to Authors		28 March 2006
Draft Technical Papers Due				28 April 2006
Confirmed Acceptance and Contracts Issued to Authors	14 May 2006
Final Technical Papers Due				28 May 2006


Author Guidelines
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The Programme Committee will issue guidelines to assist authors in 
planning their papers and presentations.  We strongly encourage those 
inexperienced in public speaking to trial their papers at their local 
chapter's meetings.

To assist authors, templates and instructions for use of those templates 
will be provided in the following formats:

	* Microsoft Word
	* HTML

Final Technical Paper submissions must be made using one of these 
templates. Templates will be made available from the conference website.


Technical Program Remuneration
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People presenting a technical paper (a 30 minute talk) will receive a 
50% discount on the Technical Program (Thursday & Friday only). In the 
case of more than one author, only a single author will be afforded the 
discount.

Only one discounted attendance is available per person. If a presenter 
is also presenting a tutorial, this discount is not applicable.

Paper Submissions
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Please submit all technical paper proposals via
http://www.sage-au.org.au/conf/tech-submit.html
For additional information or questions, please email
papers at sage-au.org.au

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                2006 Australian System Administration Conference
                                 presented by
               System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU)
                           Canberra, 24-28 July 2006
                           http://conf.sage-au.org.au
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