From paul at iconoplex.co.uk Tue Nov 3 13:35:47 2009 From: paul at iconoplex.co.uk (Paul Robinson) Date: Tue Nov 3 13:35:54 2009 Subject: Manchester BSD UG Message-ID: <233189D3-BB82-437E-A276-CB2D7ECB07E6@iconoplex.co.uk> Remember, remember the third of November, BSD, Unix and grog. I see no reason why BSD or Unix, Should ever be forgot... In case you are a mild idiot, this is a reminder that today is the first Tuesday of the month. That means: - Briton's Protection - 7pm - Beer - Banter - Normal people staring at us As an extra special woo-yay-hoopla, an old attendee will once more be showing his face apparently. Bring your jokes about Northerners who move to London to work in investment banks that almost go bust... :-) From lgj at usenix.org Tue Nov 24 18:06:49 2009 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Tue Nov 24 18:06:55 2009 Subject: IPTPS '10 CFP Message-ID: On behalf of the 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '10) program committee, we are inviting you to submit engaging position papers on the current and future trends in peer-to-peer systems. Co-located with NSDI '10 in San Jose, CA, this one-day workshop provides a venue in which to present and discuss peer-to-peer technologies, applications, and systems and to identify key research issues and challenges that lie ahead. This year, the workshop's charter will be expanded to include topics relating to self-organizing and self-managing distributed systems. This is in response to recent trends where self-organizing techniques proposed in early peer-to-peer systems have found their way into more managed settings such as datacenters, enterprises, and ISPs to help deal with growing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity. In the context of this year's workshop, peer-to-peer systems are defined to be large-scale distributed systems that are mostly decentralized, are self-organizing, and might or might not include resources from multiple administrative domains. Papers will be selected based on originality, likelihood of spawning insightful discussion, and technical merit. The program will include presentations of position papers along with plenty of time for lively discussion among the participants, as well as a demo session for working systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Network and system support for peer-to-peer systems * Self-organizing and self-managing distributed systems * Adaptive algorithms and architectures for large-scale distributed systems * New applications and protocols for peer-to-peer systems * Availability, robustness, performance, and scaling * Security, privacy, anonymity, anti-censorship, and incentives * Lessons drawn from experience with deployed peer-to-peer systems * Measurement, modeling, and workload characterization Complete paper submissions are due Friday, December 18, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST. For more details on the submission process, please see the complete Call for Papers at: http://www.usenix.org/iptps10/cfpa/ We look forward to receiving your submissions! Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington IPTPS '10 Program Co-Chairs iptps10chairs@usenix.org --------------------------------- Call for Papers 9th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '10) April 27, 2010 San Jose, CA http://www.usenix.org/iptps10/cfpa/ Submissions Deadline: December 18, 2009, 11:59 p.m. EST --------------------------------- From paul at iconoplex.co.uk Thu Nov 26 16:15:16 2009 From: paul at iconoplex.co.uk (Paul Robinson) Date: Thu Nov 26 16:15:23 2009 Subject: Fwd: BSDUG: WE'RE MOVING (nights) References: <7B399B85-2BAF-4C57-8A82-8405345C8490@vagueware.com> Message-ID: <0A5D8396-25C9-4561-A92D-F3C58246EEA6@iconoplex.co.uk> Just FYI for others who might not have seen this. Begin forwarded message: > From: Paul Robinson > Date: 26 November 2009 01:31:43 GMT > To: manchester@bsdgroups.org.uk > Bcc: Mike Davies , Sam Smith > Subject: BSDUG: WE'RE MOVING (nights) > > Hello all, > > BSD UG Manchester has been floundering for a bit. It's my fault. > Please hurt me if you feel passionate about this fact. > > Anyway, for various reasons, new life will be injected if we move > the night. > > I hereby propose: > > MANCHESTER BSD UG WILL MOVE TO THE FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH > > This will take effect immediately. Our next meeting will therefore > be Thursday, 3rd December. That's next Thursday. Our meeting after > that will be Thursday 7th Jan. > > If you have any objection, please let me know and we'll reassess for > February 2010 onwards. > > Cheers, > > Paul