From scott5 at ovsage.org Sun Feb 8 11:23:22 2009 From: scott5 at ovsage.org (Scott Murphy) Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:23:22 -0500 Subject: [ocuug] February Meeting Message-ID: <498F06FA.9050505@ovsage.org> Just as a reminder, this Thursday (February 12) is the second Thursday of the month. For those who do not remember, that means the Ottawa-Carleton Unix Users Group gets together for an evening of conversation, beverages and food (not necessarily in that order). It's traditionally the coldest month here in Ottawa, so come out for hot pizza, hot toddies (or other hot drinks) and see what the hot topics are. Details: Colonnade Pizza & Restaurant, 280 Metcalfe (at Gilmour) 18:00 (6:00pm) Thursday, February 12, 2009 There is a map (http://www.ottawaplus.ca/portal/profile.do?profileID=49236) You can also visit the website for the same information (http://www.ocuug.on.ca) From lgj at usenix.org Fri Feb 13 19:14:58 2009 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:14:58 -0800 Subject: [ocuug] USENIX EVT/WOTE '09 Call For Papers Now Available Message-ID: <49960D02.5050206@usenix.org> The Call for Papers for the 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/ Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE '09) is now available. This year, the organizers of the USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop (EVT) have merged EVT with the IAVoSS Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (WOTE) to create a joint two-day workshop (EVT/WOTE '09). EVT/WOTE seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines, ranging from computer science and human-computer interaction experts through political scientists, legal experts, election administrators, and voting equipment vendors. EVT/WOTE seeks to publish original research on important problems in all aspects of electronic voting. Soliciting New Material: In addition to the areas in which EVT has seen very strong submissions in the past (below), we are especially interested in the following types of contributions: * Technical work from vendor engineers and developers * Work involving research with or about accessibility * Assessments, proposals, and policy prescriptions involving registration technologies (e-pollbooks, online registration) * Papers based on direct experiences with recent elections, possibly from election officials and their staff Soliciting Standard Material: In general, we welcome papers on voting topics including but not limited to: * Voter registration and pre-voting processes * Vote collection * Vote tabulation * Election auditing * Design, implementation, and evaluation of new voting technologies and protocols * Scientific evaluations of existing voting technologies * System testing methodologies * Deployment and lifecycle issues * Threat mitigation * Usability * Accessibility * Legal issues, including the ADA, HAVA, intellectual property, and nondisclosure agreements on voting system evaluations * Issues with and evolution of voting technology standards * Election integrity * Ballot integrity * Ballot secrecy * Voter anonymity * Voter authentication * Receipts and coercion resistance * Anonymous channels * Secure bulletin boards * Threat models * Formal security analysis * Electoral systems * Case studies of electronic voting experiments * Privacy, verifiability, and transparency in e-voting The submission deadline for refereed papers is 11:59 p.m. PDT on April 17, 2009. Paper submission guidelines can be found at http://www.usenix.org/evtwote09/cfpa EVT/WOTE '09 will be a two-day event, Monday, August 10, and Tuesday, August 11, 2009, co-located with the 18th USENIX Security Symposium in Montreal, Canada. Attendance at the workshop will be open to the public, although talks and refereed paper presentations will be by invitation only. We look forward to your submissions. David Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Joseph Lorenzo Hall, University of California, Berkeley/Princeton University Tal Moran, Harvard University EVT/WOTE '09 --------------------------------------- 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/ Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE '09) August 10 ?11, 2009 Montreal, Canada Sponsored by USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association; ACCURATE: A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable, and Transparent Elections; and IAVoSS: The International Association for Voting System Sciences Refereed paper submissions due: April 17, 2009, 11:59 p.m. PDT http://www.usenix.org/evtwote09/cfpa ----------------------------------------- From lgj at usenix.org Wed Feb 18 12:18:52 2009 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:18:52 -0800 Subject: [ocuug] HotPar '09: Attendance Now Open to Everyone Message-ID: <499C42FC.3020301@usenix.org> The First USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism will take place March 30-31 in Berkeley, CA. http://www.usenix.org/hotpar09/proga HotPar '09 will bring together researchers and practitioners doing innovative work in the area of parallel computing. HotPar recognizes the broad impact of multicore computing and seeks relevant contributions from all fields, including application design, languages and compilers, systems, and architecture. Attendance to the workshop is now open to the USENIX community. To ensure a productive environment, it will be limited to 75 participants. Register today to ensure your place. This year's outstanding program includes a diverse range of hot research areas including models and paradigms, operating systems and middleware, transactional memory, and more. Please join us at the Claremont Resort & Spa for this new workshop covering the most innovative research in parallel computing. We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely, Alexandra Fedorova, Simon Fraser University Jim Larus, Microsoft HotPar '09 Program Co-Chairs hotpar09chairs at usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ First USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism (HotPar '09) March 30-31, 2009 Berkeley, CA, USA http://www.usenix.org/hotpar09/proga ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From lgj at usenix.org Fri Feb 20 18:54:34 2009 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:54:34 -0800 Subject: [ocuug] LISA '09: Submit Your Paper Today! Message-ID: <499F42BA.401@usenix.org> Dear Colleague, It's that time again. The LISA '09 organizers invite you to contribute refereed papers and proposals for invited talks and workshops. The Call for Participation with submission guidelines and sample topics can be found on the USENIX Web site: http://www.usenix.org/lisa09/cfpb Since 1987, the annual LISA conference has become the premier meeting place for professional system and network administrators and 2009 is no exception. New for 2009: -- We're looking for papers showcasing both theory and practice. The "practice" papers can be less formal. However, they still need to provide not only what was done, but also what was learned and why other sysadmins would want to know. -- Pre-shepherding is available. Submit an idea or an outline and get feedback before writing the full paper. This is perfect for those who are looking to submit for the first time or are unsure if their ideas really merit full papers. -- Only draft full papers will be accepted. Please submit your work by April 30, 2009. We're also looking for any ideas you have for Guru Is In sessions, Work-in-Progress Reports, posters, and training sessions. See below for the full list of deadlines. Email your ideas to the program chair: lisa09ideas at usenix.org We look forward to hearing from you! On behalf of the LISA '09 Organizers, Adam Moskowitz, SiCortex, Inc. LISA '09 Program Chair lisa09chair at usenix.org ------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Refereed papers submissions due: April 30, 2009 Proposals for invited talks, workshops, Guru Is In sessions, and tutorials due: May 29, 2009 Notification to all submitters: July 7, 2009 Final papers due: August 22, 2009 Poster proposals due: September 18, 2009 Notification to poster presenters: September 25, 2009 Submission guidelines and more information can be found at http://www.usenix.org/lisa09/cfpb ------------------------------------------------------------- From bogus@does.not.exist.com Fri Feb 27 10:45:49 2009 From: bogus@does.not.exist.com () Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:45:49 -0000 Subject: No subject Message-ID: http://venomousporridge.com/post/389785000/a-conversation-i-have-every-month-or-so http://pleaserobme.com/ http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/mobile/foursquare_a_thiefs_resource_for_homes_to_rob_152300.asp - Diane -- - db at FreeBSD.org db at db.net http://www.db.net/~db