The call for participation deadline is Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014.
LOPSA-East is looking for talks on system-administration related topics especially advanced techniques, DevOps stuff, and etc. I particularly enjoy hearing about project successes... if you have done something exciting where you work, propose a talk about it. That how I got my start!
The full CFP is here: http://lopsa-east.org/2014/
If you haven't heard of LOPSA-East, it is our regional Linux/Sysadmin conference; we expect about 150 people. People come from all over the east coast (and often Europe!).
The event is May 2 - 3, 2014, in lovely New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
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I'm not sure who is doing the sponsorship side of things this year, but they should reach out to Meraki (or, the meraki department at Cisco I guess). They're really pushing to get their gear in front of as many IT folks as they can, and are targeting the "lean IT dept", which seems like a good fit for LOPSA-East.