<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A reminder that the CFP for BSDCan 2019 closes on 19 January.</div><div class="">That's a Saturday, but in reality, we don't start closing access off</div><div class="">until Monday, so you have the whole weekend to get your submission in.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BSDCan 2019 will be held 17-18 (Fri-Sat) May, 2019 in Ottawa,<br class="">at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two<br class="">days of tutorials on 15-16 May (Wed-Thu).<br class=""><br class="">NOTE the change of month in 2019 to May<br class=""><br class="">Also: do not miss out on the Goat BOF on Tuesday 14 May.<br class=""><br class="">We are now accepting proposals for talks.<br class=""><br class="">The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias.<br class="">Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not<br class="">appropriate for this venue.<br class=""><br class="">See <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2019/" class="">http://www.bsdcan.org/2019/</a><br class=""><br class="">If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system,<br class="">please submit a proposal. Whether you are developing a very complex<br class="">system using BSD as the foundation, or helping others and have a story<br class="">to tell about how BSD played a role, we want to hear about your<br class="">experience. People using BSD as a platform for research are also<br class="">encouraged to submit a proposal. Possible topics include:<br class=""><br class="">* How we manage a giant installation with respect to handling spam.<br class="">* and/or sysadmin.<br class="">* and/or networking.<br class="">* Cool new stuff in BSD<br class="">* Tell us about your project which runs on BSD<br class="">* other topics (see next paragraph)<br class=""><br class="">From the BSDCan website, the Archives section will allow you to review<br class="">the wide variety of past BSDCan presentations as further examples.<br class=""><br class="">Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences.<br class=""><br class="">The schedule is:<br class=""><br class="">1 Dec 2018 Proposal acceptance begins<br class="">19 Jan 2019 Proposal acceptance ends<br class="">19 Feb 2019 Confirmation of accepted proposals<br class=""><br class="">See also <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2019/papers.php" class="">http://www.bsdcan.org/2019/papers.php</a><br class=""><br class="">Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2019 are available<br class="">from: <a href="http://www.bsdcan.org/2019/submissions.php" class="">http://www.bsdcan.org/2019/submissions.php</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
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