[ Thanks to Sanjeev
Gupta for this announcement: ]
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Singapore Linux Conference / LinuxWorld 2001
March 21-24 2001, Singapore
This annual conference and expo, started in 1999, aims to draw
world-renowned experts in the exciting field of Linux and showcase
the state-of-the-art in Linux and Computing in the IT hub of
South-East Asia, Singapore. In this third edition, we plan a
conference which will focus on the growth of Linux as a broadly
available and used platform. This year, the SLC will be held along
with SIGFEST, the Special Interest Group Festival of the Singapore
Computer Society.
CONFERENCE
Papers are invited for presentation during the Conference, which
will be held on Thursday, 22nd, and Friday, 23rd March. Following
last year’s success, there will be two tracks, “Business” and
“Technical”. The topics below are meant to indicate the possible
variety of areas, they should not be regarded as exhaustive.
* Productivity Tools and Suites
* Multimedia enhancements
* Internationalization and Localization
* Distributed Computing
* Life Sciences
* Embedded Linux
* Linux PDAs
* IPv6, and "personal" IP addresses
* B2B Ecommerce
* Security: DoS attacks using innocent third parties
* Security in General
* Network Trust
* Open Standards: What value to the user?
* Wireless Technology
* Mobile Computing
* IP telephony (Truly everyone at everywhere!)
* Linux in Education
* The Linux Community
* LUGs' Experiences
* Software Licencing
* The Open Source Movement
Prospective authors are requested to submit full papers for review.
Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged through email.
Hard-copy submissions are also permitted, and three copies of the
manuscript should be sent to the address below.
You may like to take a note of the following dates –
Submission of full paper – 5th January, 2001
Papers will be rigorously reviewed by the Technical Program
Committee, and reviewers’ comments will be relayed to the authors
on request in the interest of transparency.
TUTORIALS
Tutorial Sessions will be held on Wednesday, 21st March.
Tutorials have a strong technical bias, and are intended for a more
mature audience, in terms of Computing and Programming
exposure.
Prospective tutorial speakers are invited to submit proposals to
the Conference Secretariat. Each proposal should include:
* a summary
* a course outline and
* a brief biography of the speaker.
Proposals complete with the required documents should be sent to
the address below.
CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS
Sanjeev Gupta
40 Kaki Bukit Place
Singapore 416218
email: ghane@dotxtra.com
Tel: +65 9855 1208
Fax: +65 7494434
All correspondence will be acknowledged.