[SC.LUG] FW: High-Availability & Reliability Conference: Bournemouth, 25-26 Feb (UKUUG)

[Jason Lucas]

Thanks to Alasdair for the heads-up on that one. Is anyone planning on
going to it?

Jason.

On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 21:09, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> UK Unix User Group LISA/Winter Conference and Tutorial: 
>   High-Availability and Reliability
>   Bournemouth, UK, Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th February 2004
> 
> http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/
> 
> The main theme of the conference is High-Availability and Reliability,
> with topics including large-scale email services, High-Availability
> Linux, storage replication, MySQL, and choosing reliable hardware.
> The conference starts in the afternoon of Wednesday, 25 February and
> will be preceded by a half-day tutorial on High-Availability Linux
> clusters, and the Heartbeat cluster monitoring software.  This is
> being given by Alan Robertson and Lars Marowsky-Bree, who will both
> also deliver talks in the main conference.
> 
> Lars currently works as technical lead and developer for the SUSE
> Labs.  His main areas of expertise are high-availability and cluster
> related topics, ranging from storage (multi-pathing, RAID, and
> replication) over network load balancing to cluster infrastructure
> service, resource management and administration.
> 
> Alan, who is now based at IBM's Linux Technology Center, has been an
> active developer and project leader for High-Availability Linux for
> several years.  He maintains the Linux-HA project web
> (www.linux-ha.org), and has been a key developer for the open source
> Heartbeat program.
> 
> The technical talks of the conference run from the Wednesday afternoon
> and will finish late afternoon on the Thursday.  The provisional
> programme includes:
> 
> Matt Asay               Open Source Capitalism: Innovation Business Models 
> (Novell)                for an Innovative Development Methodology
> 
> David Axmark            MySQL High-Availability Features
> (MySQL)
> 
> Mark Baker and          javaGMA: A lightweight implementation of   
> Matthew Grove           the Grid Monitoring Architecture
> (University of Portsmouth) 
> 
> Matthew Bloch	        Getting the best from your server with  
> (Bytemark Hosting)	User-Mode Linux
> 
> Peter T. Breuer         NetRAID
> (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
> 
> Tim Chown               IPv6 Deployment Status
> (University of Southampton)
> 
> Julian Field            MailScanner
> (University of Southampton)
> 
> Tony Finch              Scaling up Cambridge University's email service
> (University of Cambridge)
> 
> Niall Mansfield         Experiences with the Sobig worms and 
> (UIT Cambridge Ltd)     how we combatted them (and other Spam)
> 
> Lars Marowsky-Bree      High-Availability Cluster Design and 
> (SUSE LINUX AG)         Set-up
> 
> Stephen Mayo            Hardware for high-availability
> (Hewlett-Packard)
> 
> Richard J. Moore        Preparing Linux for the Enterprise
> (IBM Linux technology Centre)
> 
> Philipp Reisner         Storage Replication with DRBD
> (LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH)
> 
> Alan Robertson          Heartbeat
> (IBM Linux Technology Centre)
> 
> Steve Whitehouse        Cluster filesystems
> (ChyGwyn Ltd)
> 
> The event is open to both members and non-members of the
> UKUUG. Bookings must be received by 18 February 2004, and a discounted
> early booking rate is available until 23 January 2004.
> A limited number of free and subsidised places is available for those
> who would otherwise be unable to attend.
> 
> See <http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2004/> for booking information
> and full details of the programme including abstracts and speaker
> biographies.
> 
> For further information, contact:
>   Jane Morrison
>   UKUUG Secretariat
>   PO Box 37
>   Buntingford
>   Herts SG9 9UQ
> 
>   Tel:  01763 273 475
>   Fax:  01763 273 255
> 
>   office at ukuug.org
>   www.ukuug.org
> 
> The UKUUG was formed to represent users of UNIX and Open systems in
> the UK.  It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area and
> is completely independent of specific hardware and software vendors.
> Any profits are used to further the activities of the organisation.
> 
> 
> Provisional dates for Linux 2004 conference in Leeds:
>   29th July - 1st August 2004
> 
> 
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