An update and 2nd Call for papers. The Systems Administration Miniconf will be part of the linux.conf.au conference to be held in Dunedin, New Zealand in January 2006 . We have had a good response to our first call for papers and have accepted several great presentations. In addition we have several others submitted after the early deadline or which didn't quite make the first cut. Please see http://sysadmin.miniconf.org/program.html for our draft programme or http://sysadmin.miniconf.org/presentations.html for more details on the accepted presentations. A reminder that we are still accepting proposals for presentations until at least the 18th of November. Presentations can be lightning talks or full presentations between 30 and 120 minutes. See: http://sysadmin.miniconf.org/cfp.html for details. Topics for presentations could include (but are not limited to) Samba, Databases, Backups, Firewalls, AAA, Troubleshooting, Buying Decisions, VPN, Virtual machines (Xen, UML, VMware), Monitoring Software, Web/Mail/LDAP/etc Server software, Wikis, PHP, Spam and Virus Filtering, VOIP, Trouble Ticket System, Best Practices, New Developments, Clustering/High Availability , Automated Installs, Automated configuration, Packaging Local Software. Speakers should assume that members of the audience have at least a couple of years experience in Unix/Linux administration. Format of Presentations ----------------------- Presentations of between 30 and 120 minutes (including questions) or Lightning Talks of 5-10 minutes. Submitting talks ---------------- Please note that in order to give a presentation you must be signed up for the main linux.conf.au conference. In order to submit a talk please see our Call for Presentations web page at: http://sysadmin.miniconf.org/cfp.html Submissions (or any questions) should be sent to: contact @ sysadmin.miniconf.org. Dates and Deadlines ------------------- 18 Nov 2005 - Deadline for Submissions Contact and Questions --------------------- Please see our website at http://sysadmin.miniconf.org/ for more information on the miniconf and presenting at it. If you have any questions please feel free to email the organisers at: contact @ sysadmin.miniconf.org