[ale] USENIX Association News

[Terry Countryman]

From: Anne_Dickison at usenix.org
Subject: USENIX Association News
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:52:40 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <200312162352.hBGNqexG025344 at voyager.usenix.org>

Dear USENIX Members and Past Conference Attendees:

As the year draws to a close, USENIX would like to thank you for
your continued support and wish you a very happy holiday season.

*   Election News:  The biennial election for officers and directors of
	the Association will be held in the spring of 2004. The report
	from the Nominating Committee is now available at:

	    http://www.usenix.org/about/elections04/nomcom_report.html

	Nominations from the membership are open; for details see:

	    http://www.usenix.org/about/elections04/


*   NEW - USENIX '04 Special Interest Group (SIG) Session: UseBSD
	Submission Deadline: January 5, 2004

    The focus of UseBSD will be on showcasing ways in which creative
    members of the BSD community are making use of BSD--on the desktop,
    in embedded applications, in corporate data centers, in
    computational clusters, in business environments, and more. Further
    details and submission guidelines can be found at:

	    http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix04/usebsd.html


*   Now Available - Preliminary Programs for NSDI '04, FAST '04, and VM
	'04 are up. -- USENIX/ACM Symposium on Networked Systems Design
	and Implementation (NSDI '04)


	    http://www.usenix.org/events/nsdi04/tech/


--  3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04)

	    http://www.usenix.org/events/fast04/tech/


--  Third Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (VM '04)

	    http://www.usenix.org/events/vm04/tech/ 


Registration and final programs will be available in mid-January '04.


*   The 13th USENIX Security Symposium will be held August 9-13, 2004,
	    in San Diego, CA.
	Paper Submission Deadline Approaching: January 25, 2004
    
    For submission guidelines visit:

	    http://www.usenix.org/events/sec04/cfp/


*   LISA '04:  Looking for Submissions 
	Submission deadline: April 20, 2004.

    The program committee invites you to contribute your ideas, papers,
    and proposals for the refereed papers track, invited talks, panels,
    Guru Is In sessions, or Work-in-Progress reports.
    Visit:

	    http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa04/cfp/ 


*   Sixth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI
    '04):  Call for papers now available at:

	    http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi04/cfp/ 

    Submissions are due May 26, 2004.