Exim conference, April 2008

Subject: Exim conference 2008 -- Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers

A few months back, an Exim / e-mail conference was proposed.
but it didn't go ahead because not enough people were interested.

At the recent Exim course given by Philip Hazel in Cambridge we asked
again, and there's been a lot more interest (partly because timing is
better, partly because Philip's course won't be run anymore) so the
Conference will go ahead now in 2008.

	Regards,
	Niall

ps: apologies to those who receive both postings

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		E-Mail Systems Conference 2008
			(Exim and other mail systems)
		Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers
			Thu/Fri 3/4-Apr-2008
			Birmingham, England

Related conference:

	This conference is being run with the cooperation of the UKUUG
	-- the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group.  The UKUUG
	conference takes place immediately before the E-Mail Systems
	conference, on Tue/Wed 1/2 April 2008, at the same venue.  The
	themes of the UKUUG conference are Virtualization and Dynamic
	Languages.


Purpose of Conference:

	The aim of the conference is to provide:

	* A forum to discuss practical experiences using Exim
	  and other e-mail systems, for a wide range of users, from ISPs
	  to tiny sites.

	* Tutorials for various levels of expertise.

	* A venue for the community, for informal networking and
	  meeting socially.

	* A focus for the Exim developers, especially now that Philip
	  Hazel, the creator and lead developer is retiring.  We will
	  provide meeting facilities for all those interested in
	  getting involved in maintaining and developing Exim.

	The last conference (2005), was solely about Exim.  This time
	we have broadened the theme because many topics -- issues with
	very large mail systems, spam filtering, resilience of mail
	systems, mail server clustering, mail performance, running
	message stores, techniques, etc. -- are common to all, and we
	want as broad a community as possible to participate.


Call for papers, tutorials, BOF topics

	Papers:
	  Send abstracts of about 200 words, along with a short
	  biographical note, to exim08-speakers (at) uit.co.uk.  Talks
	  should last 30-60 minutes, including Q&A.

	Tutorials:
	  If you would like to present a tutorial, send an abstract as
	  above.

	Suggestions:
	  If you don't want to speak, but there is a topic you're
	  particularly interested in, or a speaker you think would be
	  good for the conference, or a tutorial you'd like to attend,
	  do let us know on the above e-mail address.

Location:

	Birmingham Conservatoire
	University of Central England
	Birmingham B3 3HG
	England.


Timetable (provisional):

	Thursday 3-Apr-2008
	         All day: Conference papers
	   Early evening: BOFS
	         Evening: Social event / conference dinner

	Friday 4-Apr-2008
	         Morning: tutorial(s)

Mailing list:

	To be added to the mailing list for announcements etc.
	about the conference, e-mail a (possibly empty) message to:
		exim08-subscribe  (at) uit.co.uk

Further information, as it becomes available:

	http://www.uit.co.uk/mail-conference

Footnote:

	The new second edition of Philip Hazel's book "The Exim SMTP
	Mail Server"  has just been printed.


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