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On May 2, Microcomputer Services and the Computing Center presented the first
annual UO Computing Conference in the EMU.
Designed to encourage information sharing from various areas of networking
and computing expertise, the conference attracted 80 attendees from the university
and local school districts. It was organized into nine separate sessions and
covered topics ranging from general troubleshooting techniques to the topology
of UONet and an introduction to PHP, Windows XP, and Mac OS X.
The most popular session was "UONet Unveiled." This session, which
was presented by Network Services staff members José Dominguez and Dale
Smith, gave attendees an in-depth, behind-the-scenes view of the university's
network and its services.
Conference organizer Patrick Chinn was pleased with the results. "We wanted
folks to get together and share their knowledge with each other," Chinn
said. "This was a good step in the right direction."
The positive feedback from participants almost certainly guarantees that the
conference will become an annual event. "We're tentatively planning another
conference for next year," Chinn said. "It's too early to announce
any dates or locations, but once we make those decisions we'll post them on
the conference website (http://micro.uoregon.edu/conference/)."
Want to give a presentation next year? If you're interested in presenting a session at next year's conference, contact Patrick Chinn at 346-0940 or write pchinn@darkwing.uoregon.edu