From: arch@gandalf.pei.com (Arch Mott)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: LISA BOF Schedule
Summary: Schedule of BOF Sessions for LISA VI
Keywords: LISA BOF
Date: 9 Oct 92 22:24:30 GMT
Organization: Protocol Engines Incorporated


USENIX LISA BOF Sessions:

  As usual at the LISA conference there will be Birds of a Feather Sessions in
  the evening to allow attendees to meet and discuss topics of interest to
  them. BOF Sessions are intended to be highly interactive and much less
  formal than the Technical Sessions.  We would particularly like to encourage
  BOFs on topics which would not normally be discussed during the typical LISA
  technical presentation (for instance, discussions on professional issues,
  non-professional interests common to Systems Administrators, techincal
  issues not covered in the regular sessions or the Workshop Track). To
  schedule a BOF session or to request more information please contact Arch
  Mott via email to arch@pei.com or via telephone at (415) 335-0150.


Following is the TENTATIVE schedule for BOF sessions at LISA this October:
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Tuesday Night BOFs:
Room-> Barcelona |  Casa Blanca     |     Tokyo        | Vancouver 
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1800 |           |                  |                  |
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1900 |  GLBIC    |                  |                  | 
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2000 |           |                  |                  |                     
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2100 |           |                  |                  |
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Wednesday Night BOFs:
Room-> Salon A   |  Salon B         | Barcelona        | Vancouver 
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Time |           |                  |                  |
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1800 |           |                  | USL Distributed  | SCO Open Desktop
     |           |                  | System & Network |   Adminstration   
     |           |                  | Management Plans |     Futures         
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1900 | SAGE      | Hands Off Backup |     NIS+         |    Tcl and Tk
     |           |   And Recovery   |                  |
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2000 | SAGE      |                  | Electronic Fron- |    Cost Of Ownership
     |           |                  | tier Foundation  |         Issues
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2100 | SAGE W/G  |                  |    PERL 5.0      |
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BOF Descriptions: (I'm still waiting for some of the descriptions...)
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GLBIC:  
Host:Lee Damon 

  A BOF on Gays, Bi's and Lesbians in computing

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USL Distributed System and Network Management:
Host: Tim Ihde

  We are interested in discussing our planned approach to distributed 
  management of heterogeneous systems & networks.  Our current architecture 
  calls for a set of object oriented management applications running over the 
  TIVOLI management framework (which is based on the CORBA specification).

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The future of SCO Open Desktop System Administration:
Host: Mark Diekhans, SCO

  This will be a chance for SCO ODT and Unix users to hear about the future
  directions of SCO Systems Administration Software and to provided input on
  their needs.  

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SAGE: 

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Hands-off Backup and Recover Operations
Hosts: Bob Lyon - V.P. of Engineering, Legato Systems
       Ranga Rangachari - Product Marketing Manager, Legato Systems

  The talk will delve on the architectural requirements that enables
  true enterprise wide backup and recover operation.  It wil also
  discuss standard interfaces for tapes and optical jukeboxes.
  Current users and evaluators of NetWorker are strongly encouraged
  to attend this BOF.  Anyone else who's interested in knowing more
  about NetWorker is also welcome to attend..

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NIS+:
Host: Chuck Mcmanis, Staff Engineer, SunSoft

  Network Information Service Plus (NIS+), a component of SunSoft's Solaris 
  2.0 operating system, is a new enterprise naming service. It is designed to be
  a replacement for the widely-installed ONC Network Information Service (NIS) 
  in customer environments and multivendor platforms. NIS+ is a secure, 
  high-performance  repository for system administration information for a 
  range of networks, from very small to ones having tens of thousands of
  systems.

  This BOF will be an interactive session focusing on motivations behind
  NIS+, its features, and NIS to NIS+ transition issues. 
  
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Tcl - Tool Command Language and Tk - A Tcl based X toolkit:
Host: Karl Lehenbauer

  This will be a dicussions and question and answer session about Tcl and Tk 
  with particular attention to its use in developing systems administration 
  software. 

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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Hosts: Hellen Rose and Christopher Davis, EFF

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PERL 5.0:
Host: Larry Wall
  
  An informal discussion of how you'll be using Perl next year...

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Costs of Ownership Issues
Host: Steve Hanlon, SunSoft

  A BOF for tossing around ideas on cost of ownership issues such as:

        - What focus users currently have (as opposed to vendors)
                common practices
                common in-house development
                leveraging heterogenous environments
        - Suggestions for vendors:
                better defaults suggestions
                things requiring automation
        - Big cost items

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