[Announce] USENIX Deadline for LISA '09 Registration, and Call for Papers for 2010 Events

[Linda Halligan]

In this issue:
1. LISA '09 News and Online Registration Deadline
2. Calls for Papers: WOSN 2010, MobiSys 2010, and OSDI '10
3. 2010 USENIX Board Elections: Call for Nominations
4. February 2010 ;login: Issue: Call for Proposals

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1. LISA '09 News and Online Registration Deadline

The LISA '09 online registration deadline is October 26, noon PDT.
Discounts are still available:
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/discounts.html

LISA '09 will take place November 1-6, 2009, in Baltimore, MD.

Take a look at what's new and notable:

* Training Program http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/training/
-- See interviews with tutorial instructors Tobias Oetiker, Tom
Limoncelli, and Rik Farrow on the USENIX Blog
http://blogs.usenix.org/

* Technical Program http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/tech/
-- Keynote Address: "Ahead in the Cloud: The Power of Infrastructure as
a Service," by Werner Vogels, CTO, Amazon.com

-- All registered LISA '09 attendees are eligible to received a Google
WaveSandbox invitation. Attendees: Be on the lookout for more info soon.

-- Plenary Session: "Towards Zero-Emission Datacenters Through Direct
Reuse of Waste Heat," Bruno Michel, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory

-- Data Storage Day will take place on Wednesday, November 4, and will
offer you the latest in data storage technology and innovation:
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/dsdl09.html

-- Check out the latest BoF schedule:
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/bofs.html

-- Can't make it during the day?
Take advantage of the LISA '09 Evening Pass:
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa09/evening.html

Find our more and register at http://www.usenix.org/lisa09/meo

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2. Calls for Papers: WOSN 2010, MobiSys 2010, and OSDI '10

-- MobiSys 2010: 8th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems,
Applications and Services
Jointly sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE and the USENIX Association
June 14-18, 2010, San Francisco, CA

MobiSys 2010 will continue the tradition of publishing top-notch
research papers dealing with all aspects of mobile systems. MobiSys
seeks papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus
narrowly on low-level components. The conference values results and
insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those
obtained solely from simulations.

Please submit abstracts by December 4, 2009.

Find out more at http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2010/


-- WOSN 2010: 3rd Workshop on Online Social Networks
June 22, 2010, Boston, MA
Sponsored by USENIX

The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners to
discuss the challenges and important questions posed by online social
applications and their infrastructure, as well as the trends and
directions that will inform the online social landscape of the future.

Paper submissions are due February 18, 2010.

For more information, see http://www.usenix.org/events/wosn10/cfp/


-- OSDI '10: 9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and
Implementation
October 4-6, 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS

The ninth OSDI seeks to present innovative, exciting research in
computer systems. OSDI brings together professionals from academic and
industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing
the design, implementation, and implications of systems software.

The submissions deadline is May 7, 2010.

http://www.usenix.org/osdi10/cfpm/

Note: A limited number of slots for co-located workshops are available.
For more information about how to apply and deadlines, please contact
osdiworkshops at usenix.org.

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3. 2010 USENIX Board Elections: Call for Nominations

The biennial election of USENIX's Board of Directors will be held in the
spring of 2010. The Nominating Committee is soliciting suggestions for
nominees. Read more at http://www.usenix.org/about/elections10.html

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4. February 2010 ;login: Issue: Call for Proposals

The February 2010 ;login: issue is focused on system administration
and file system and storage. If you have a hot topic you want to
write about, please send a proposal to login at usenix.org. Info on
writing proposals can be found at:
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/writing.html

Article drafts are due November 13, 2009.
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