Re: Making It Easier to Submit Papers to USENIX LISA '11

> We want YOU to submit a paper this year to the LISA conference.

Oh, I doubt it.

> Really.

No way, dude.

> Yes, you!

Yeah, right, next you'll be assuring me I may already have won.

> Whether you are an academic developing new algorithms that improve
> system administration, a leader of an open source project that
> sysadmins find valuable, or a practitioner in industry that has
> written new software to improve productivity, we believe there's a
> paper inside all of you that wants to get out!

Nah, I don't let papers back up.  I just take a shot of this Billy Club
Colonic Tonic once a week and I'm fine.

> (LISA '11 is December 4-9, 2011, in Boston).

Sorry, I'm already booked up all that week.  Really.

> LISA is also a great venue for student papers: it is a friendly
> audience and we have a "Best Student Paper" award that pays cash.

Ah, I knew there had to be a "you may already have won."  But how does
this work if you're not a student?


tl;dr: It ain't me you're lookin' for, babe

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