Subject: CFP: 2nd Conference on Freely Redistributable Software
From: [email-masked] (Peter H. Salus)
Date: 12 Oct 1996 21:23:21 GMT
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		CALL FOR PAPERS

	Second Conference on Freely Redistributable Software

	Sponsored by the Free Software Foundation and Cygnus Support

		19-21 February 1997
		San Francisco Hilton, San Francisco

Over the past 15 years, free and low-cost software has become ubiquitous.
This conference will bring together implementors of several different types 
of freely redistributable software and publishers of such software (on 
various media).

There will be tutorials and refereed papers, as well as keynotes.

The Conference will be held at the San Francisco Hilton,
19-21 February 1997.

Papers are invited on any aspect of GNU, Linux, NetBSD, 386BSD, FreeBSD,
expect, PERL, tcl/tk, Apache, Kerberos, and other tools for which the
code is accessible and redistributable.

Extended abstracts are due on or before November 8, 1996.

Authors will be notified no later than December 5, 1996.

Full papers will be due Thursday, 16 January 1996.

Program committee:
	Michael Tiemann, chair
	Brian Behlendorf
        Robert J. Chassell
        Rich Morin
        Peter H. Salus
	Ian Lance Taylor

Abstracts of 350-750 words (in troff, PostScript, or straight ASCII, 
only) should be sent to [email-masked].

Proposals for tutorials should be sent to 
	Peter H. Salus at [email-masked] immediately

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