Technical CFP

Call for Technical Papers

System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU)
Australian System Administrators Conference (SAGE-AU'2007)
Sydney, 23-27 July 2007

1st Call for Technical Papers

Conference Background

The SAGE-AU Annual Conference is the premier Systems Administration event in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference offers a premium educational forum for System Administrators of all platforms and levels of experience, and an excellent opportunity to meet, network and learn from acknowledged experts in the field.

Conference Dates & Location

SAGE-AU'2007 will consist of 5 days of Tutorials and Technical Program sessions.

Tutorials will be run on the first three days (Monday to Wednesday) covering both technical and non-technical aspects of System Administration.

The 2007 conference will be held in Sydney. The venue will be the Carlton Crest Parramatta Hotel, Parramatta.

The conference will be held from Monday 23th July to Friday 27th July, 2007. Tutorials will be held on Monday 23th July to Wednesday 25th July 2007 inclusive.

Call for Technical Papers

SAGE-AU'2007 is hereby calling for papers and topics relevant to the profession of System Administration.

Papers should have a technical or managerial System Administration orientation, and should not contain advertising.

Submitting a Technical Paper for Consideration

Technical Papers will be of 30 minute duration. 5-10 minutes should be reserved for questions from the audience.

If you wish to present a paper, please complete the submission form which can be found at: http://conf.sage-au.org.au/tech-submit.html by the closing date (2 March 2007).

Authors will be notified of whether their submission has been accepted or rejected.

A draft paper is also submitted to allow the conference committee to provide feedback and assistance. The Program Committee will assist authors in organising their work to help ensure the quality of papers and preparedness of authors.

All authors giving Technical Papers will be expected to provide a final "camera ready" paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

This final copy must be submitted in an approved format (see "Author Guidelines").

Authors should note that formal papers are required - submissions consisting solely of presentation slides are insufficient.

Important note: Authors whose submissions are accepted are expected to follow the published deadlines, and to present the result of their work at the Conference. To assist in this, authors may be assigned "mentors".

Important Dates

Author Guidelines

The Programme Committee will issue guidelines to assist authors in planning their papers and presentations. We strongly encourage those inexperienced in public speaking to trial their presentations at their local chapter's meetings.

To assist authors, templates and instructions for use of those templates will be provided in the following formats:

• Microsoft Word
• HTML

Final Technical Paper submissions must be made using one of these templates. Templates will be made available from the conference website.

Technical Paper Remuneration

People presenting a technical paper (a 30 minute talk) will receive a 50% discount on the Technical Program (Thursday & Friday only). In the case of more than one author, only a single author will be afforded the discount. Only one discounted attendance is available per person. If a presenter is also presenting a tutorial, this discount is not applicable.

Technical Paper Submissions

Please submit all abstracts via the proposal submission form available here.

Please submit finalised Technical Papers using one of the templates (either in .doc or .html format) available here.

Additional questions and enquiries should be directed to: