From lgj at usenix.org Mon Mar 2 14:59:38 2009 From: lgj at usenix.org (Lionel Garth Jones) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:59:38 -0800 Subject: USENIX HotSec '09 Call For Papers Now Available Message-ID: <49AC64DA.50101@usenix.org> The Call for Papers for the 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security is now available. Please submit all work by 11:59 p.m. PDT on May 4, 2009. HotSec '09 will bring together innovative practitioners and researchers in computer security and privacy, broadly defined, to tackle the challenging problems in this space. While pragmatic and systems-oriented, HotSec takes a broad view of security and privacy and encompasses research on topics including but not limited to large-scale threats, network security, hardware security, software security, programming languages, applied cryptography, anonymity, human-computer interaction, sociology, economics, and law. To ensure a vigorous workshop environment, attendance will be by invitation only. Participants will be invited based on their submissions' originality, technical merit, topical relevance, and likelihood of leading to insightful technical discussions that will influence future security research. Submissions may not be under consideration for publication at any other venue. Submission guidelines and more information can be found at http://www.usenix.org/hotsec09/cfpa HotSec '09 will be a one-day event, Tuesday, August 11, 2009, co-located with the 18th USENIX Security Symposium in Montreal, Canada. We look forward to your submission. Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington HotSec '09 Program Chair hotsec09chair at usenix.org --------------------------------------- Call for Papers 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security (HotSec '09) August 11, 2009 Montreal, Canada http://www.usenix.org/hotsec09/cfpa Position paper submissions due: May 4, 2009, 11:59 p.m. PDT --------------------------------------- From jmturner at yahoo-inc.com Thu Mar 12 15:58:41 2009 From: jmturner at yahoo-inc.com (James M. Turner) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:58:41 -0700 Subject: March Meeting Cancelled Message-ID: <49B993A1.6000307@yahoo-inc.com> Hi everyone, I am cancelling our March meeting (scheduled for next Thursday, March 19) due to some issues that have come up. We'll pick up again in April, same bat time, same bat channel. Our speaker pipeline is a bit empty right now, also, so please send any topic ideas to directors at baylisa.org and we'll get them set up to talk to us quicklike. Thanks. -- James Michael Turner Y! Operations SA Manager From david at catwhisker.org Fri Mar 27 09:43:27 2009 From: david at catwhisker.org (David Wolfskill) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:43:27 -0700 Subject: Local FreeBSD user group resurrection scheduled for April Message-ID: <20090327164327.GP31409@albert.catwhisker.org> The Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group (BAFUG -- Web site at www.bafug.org, though it's been dormant for at least a couple of years) is about to start meeting again -- finally. I've asked my contact at Yahoo! to go ahead and set up a room for a BAFUG meeting either first or second Thursday of April (depending on what's available). I've suggested that we start around 7 - 7:30 PM; again, actual start time will depend on what's available. A decade ago, BAFUG meetings involved pizza, but I don't know how feasible that is at this point. As (at least) some of you know, FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE is presently in code freeze, so I'm anticipating that we can get some basic infrastructure in place, and we can discuss things involving FreeBSD that folks find sufficiently interesting. I do not have plans for any formal presentation, though I'm not against it per se. (I am aware that trying to ensure that there is one is a major source of burnout on the part of the folks who run these things, and I have no special desire to self-inflict that form of punishment.) More details over on bafug.org as they become available. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david at catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available URL: