It would be quite excellent if we could get someone (or people) to
	discuss pkgsrc at this...

The Tutorials

The first two days of the convention will be filled by classes, taught by 
experts, which last 3 or 6 hours and cover topics in great depth. We'll 
have two 3-hour slots this year (we MIGHT be able to negotiate more if we 
get lots of killer proposals). I'd like to fill with classes on topics 
which reflect the BSDs' strengths -- e.g. the TCP/IP stack, file systems, 
security, kernel architecture, etc. Now, I realize that three hours is a 
long time for some of us to talk (unless, of course, you're Kirk McKusick, 
who can easily fill several days -- and who, I hope, will be one of our 
speakers). So, I'd like to encourage experts from the BSD development teams 
to do sessions as "tag team" efforts involving two or even three people. 
Presenters of the tutorials will receive a $1500 honorarium from O'Reilly 
per 3-hour session. They'll also be reimbursed for travel, and get free 
admission to the "conference" portion of the event. (If there are two or 
more presenters, they will split the honorarium and travel funds. However, 
since the honorarium is generous, everyone's expenses should be covered.) 
Notes for the tutorials will have to be submitted to O'Reilly in advance 
for duplication. Please submit proposals to oscon00proposals@oreilly.com 
and copy me at oscon@brettglass.com. Proposal guidelines are at 
http://conferences.ora.com/oscon2000/call.html. See the section of this 
message marked "Deadlines Approaching" about deadlines.

The Conference

The final two days of the convention will be a conference with 30, 45, 60, 
and 90-minute sessions. There will be a "plenary" session each morning, 
after which the conference will split into tracks. Because this is the 
first year that there will be a BSD track, we'll only get one quarter as 
much time as Linux: 270 minutes, total, to slice up as we'd like. Let's 
fill this time with so much good and useful information that we get a full 
track next year! Presenters during these two days won't get an honorarium; 
however, there's a travel fund which may be able to provide assistance to 
those traveling from afar. However, presenters WILL get into the conference 
for free -- a perk worth nearly $800. Again, please submit proposals to 
oscon00proposals@oreilly.com and copy me at oscon@brettglass.com. Proposal 
guidelines are at http://conferences.ora.com/oscon2000/call.html. See the 
section of this message marked "Deadlines Approaching" about deadlines.