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Aug 13, 2007, 9:51 AM
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Exim conference, April 2008
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Subject: Exim conference 2008 -- Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers A few months back, an Exim / e-mail conference was proposed. but it didn't go ahead because not enough people were interested. At the recent Exim course given by Philip Hazel in Cambridge we asked again, and there's been a lot more interest (partly because timing is better, partly because Philip's course won't be run anymore) so the Conference will go ahead now in 2008. Regards, Niall ps: apologies to those who receive both postings --- E-Mail Systems Conference 2008 (Exim and other mail systems) Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers Thu/Fri 3/4-Apr-2008 Birmingham, England Related conference: This conference is being run with the cooperation of the UKUUG -- the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group. The UKUUG conference takes place immediately before the E-Mail Systems conference, on Tue/Wed 1/2 April 2008, at the same venue. The themes of the UKUUG conference are Virtualization and Dynamic Languages. Purpose of Conference: The aim of the conference is to provide: * A forum to discuss practical experiences using Exim and other e-mail systems, for a wide range of users, from ISPs to tiny sites. * Tutorials for various levels of expertise. * A venue for the community, for informal networking and meeting socially. * A focus for the Exim developers, especially now that Philip Hazel, the creator and lead developer is retiring. We will provide meeting facilities for all those interested in getting involved in maintaining and developing Exim. The last conference (2005), was solely about Exim. This time we have broadened the theme because many topics -- issues with very large mail systems, spam filtering, resilience of mail systems, mail server clustering, mail performance, running message stores, techniques, etc. -- are common to all, and we want as broad a community as possible to participate. Call for papers, tutorials, BOF topics Papers: Send abstracts of about 200 words, along with a short biographical note, to exim08-speakers (at) uit.co.uk. Talks should last 30-60 minutes, including Q&A. Tutorials: If you would like to present a tutorial, send an abstract as above. Suggestions: If you don't want to speak, but there is a topic you're particularly interested in, or a speaker you think would be good for the conference, or a tutorial you'd like to attend, do let us know on the above e-mail address. Location: Birmingham Conservatoire University of Central England Birmingham B3 3HG England. Timetable (provisional): Thursday 3-Apr-2008 All day: Conference papers Early evening: BOFS Evening: Social event / conference dinner Friday 4-Apr-2008 Morning: tutorial(s) Mailing list: To be added to the mailing list for announcements etc. about the conference, e-mail a (possibly empty) message to: exim08-subscribe (at) uit.co.uk Further information, as it becomes available: http://www.uit.co.uk/mail-conference Footnote: The new second edition of Philip Hazel's book "The Exim SMTP Mail Server" has just been printed. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-announce Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##
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