BSDCon 2003 Submission Deadline April 1, 2003

The BSDCon 2003 Program Committee invites you to contribute original and innovative papers on topics related to BSD-derived systems and the Open Source world. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Embedded BSD application development and deployment
• Real world experiences using BSD systems
• Using BSD in a mixed OS environment
• Comparison with non-BSD operating systems; technical, practical, licensing (GPL vs. BSD)
• Tracking open source development on non-BSD systems
• BSD on the desktop
• I/O subsystem and device driver development
• SMP and kernel threads
• Kernel enhancements
• Internet and networking services
• Security
• Performance analysis and tuning
• System administration
• Future of BSD

For more information about the BSDCon 2003 Call for Papers, visit: http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/

Submissions in the form of extended abstracts are due by April 1, 2003. Be sure to review the extended abstract expectations before submitting. Selection will be based on the quality of the written submission and whether the work is of interest to the community. For detailed author guidelines, including sample extended abstracts and final papers visit:

http://www.usenix.org/events/bsdcon03/cfp/guidelines.html

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Sincerely,

Gregory Neil Shapiro
BSDCon 2003 Program Chair