I got up at 4:15 am today. In order to get to Eindhoven on time, I had to take the 7 am flight from Zurich and thus the 5:20 train from Olten. Guess I am lucky to have no problem with getting up early.
In Schiphol I met Rudi and Alexios. Together we rode to Eindhoven and arrived at the TU/e just in time for the meeting. The other members of the program committee were there as well: Walter, Edwin, Brenda, Peter, Bastiaan, Xander, Jos and Fred. And there was also Marielle and Sabina from Iconic who will be doing all the actual organization work for the conference.
This is my first time on a PC. What I found the most difficult part, is to figure out which talks would be relevant 1.5 years from now, as the conference will be held at the end of September 2004.
At the meeting we did not really decide anything fixed, apart from the meaning of SANE: System Administation and Network Engineering Conference.
We tossed around a ton of names of potential invited speakers, had a short discussion about the deadlines, debated whether we should demand 400 word abstracts or extended abstracts like LISA. We also collected places where we wanted to distribute the Call for Papers.
I guess most things will get sorted on our PC mailing list, as we move on.