[AusNOG] Call for Presentations for AusNOG-04

[Terry Manderson]

Colleagues, 

On behalf of the AusNOG Board, I am pleased to issue the call for presentations for AusNOG-04.
Please feel free to disseminate within your network.

Call for presentations for AusNOG-04
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Four Seasons Hotel
    Sydney
    September 16th and 17th, 2010.
 
Theme: Improving the Internet in .AU
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The Internet in Australia is evolving at a rapidly increasing rate. Recent 
moves by organisations and governments in our back yard have presented the 
network operations community with a number of challenges. Some challenges 
are already here, others will come in time. This year AusNOG-04 is adopting
 the theme of “Improving the Internet in .AU”. 
 
Now is the time for you to present your network operations topic to your 
peers at AusNOG-04! Your topic will highlight an improvement to internetworking 
operations in Australia, in light of the industry challenges or in spite of them.
 
Focus areas
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Internet operations can be a broad topic and the presentation selection 
committee will be short-listing presentations in the following focus areas:
 
* Improving the scale of your network
* Making leaps in service or network quality
* Taking the network operations tools to the next level
* Improving the robustness or security of the network
* Using the corporate or Internet governance structures to your benefit

Other topics will be considered if they can be shown to be of interest 
to the operator community.
 
Notes to presenters
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Preference will be given to presentations that result in actual operational 
outcomes.
 
Session speakers should be prepared to present for 30 minutes. Keynote 
speakers will be expected to present for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Short 
presentations if of strong operational content are also acceptable.
 
Once the final slides are submitted, changes will only be permitted where 
the presentation requires the most up to date information or data.

By submitting a presentation for consideration in the AusNOG-04 programme, 
and if selected the presenter will allow AusNOG to:
    * Take photographs of the presentation and presenter.
    * Record and rebroadcast video and audio of the presentation and        
      presenter.
    * Redistribute, the presentation slides, audio, video, and photographs
      electronically, on the AusNOG website, or otherwise but leaving all           
      intellectual property in the hands of presenter or rightful 
      property holder where possible[1].


 
Deadlines
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25th June: Submission of presentation title, presentation description (300 
           words), and presenter biography (200-400 words)
 
30th July: Presenters notified of their acceptance status as an AusNOG-04 
           presentation.
 
3rd September: Submission of final presentation slides as Portable Document 
             Format (pdf), PowerPoint, or Keynote. Provision of a recent                       
             digital photograph (<500k) of the presenter.
 
All submissions must be sent to organisers at ausnog.net.

[1]: AusNOG accepts that some speakers are unable to allow us to archive their 
presentation due to company or corporate policy, and if the situation arises 
AusNOG will delete all copies in its possession after the presentation.

Cheers,
Terry
AusNOG Director