SANS call for authors: law & information technology

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Milone, Mark" <MMilone () NYMEX com>
To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com>
Subject: SANS Legal Issues in Information Technology
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:52:26 -0400
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Dear Declan,

I hope that this message finds you well. If possible, I would like to
distribute the following Call for Authors on the Politech list.

Best,

Mark


Legal Issues in Information Technology

SANS Institute's Legal Issues in Information Technology ("LIIT") is a six
day course providing attorneys and technicians with an in-depth knowledge of
the major legal issues raised by Information Technology. Each day is
separated into six main topics, and each day's material is organized to
build upon information provided in the previous day's lecture. By the end of
the course, participants will have an in depth knowledge of the issues that
shape Information Technology Law and how these matters affect future
technologies. For more information, please contact Mark G. Milone (milone at
mindspring.com).

LIIT Authors & Lecturers

The SANS Institute is seeking attorneys to develop course material that will
serve as the foundation of its new course "Legal Issues in Information
Technology" ("LIIT"). In the first phase of this project, authors will
create PowerPoint presentations that will subsequently be used by lecturers
for the 6 day course. Although authors will be given a chance to lecture on
the course material they prepare, additional lecturers will be subsequently
selected by SANS. The course is tentatively scheduled to be offered some
time after January 2004 in various locations throughout the U.S.

Course Material

LIIT course material will be comprised of PowerPoint slides and must be
presented by authors in completed form by December 31, 2003. In this first
phase, SANS is asking for authors to present a paragraph discussing their
main topic by November 15, 2003. Each main topic should also be separated
into 6 subtopics (as discussed in "Selecting Topics" below). Authors are
encouraged to develop a full day's worth of material and an additional $1000
will be provided to authors who develop a full day's worth of material (i.e.
192 slides with complete notes, as discussed below). After written approval
of finalized topics and slides and execution of the SANS Author Agreement,
SANS will remunerate authors on a per slide basis ($33/slide).

Selecting Topics

Basically, authors must suggest a main topic in a concise paragraph and
break this topic into six subtopics. Once approved, each subtopic must
present an hour worth of material, so please be careful when breaking main
topics into subtopics. As a general matter, an hour worth of material is
approximately 30 slides; therefore, a full days course should be
approximately 192 slides (180 slides for the six subtopics and 2
"introductory" slides introducing each subtopic - this is  more fully
described in the SANS Author Guidelines, which will be provided upon
acceptance of author topics). As a general matter, the average slide should
have at least four bullet points. Each bullet point should have about a
paragraph of text in the "Notes" window describing the applicable bullet
point. Each slide, therefore, should present about two minutes of worth of
lecturing material. As a final matter, authors must use the LIIT PowerPoint
file as a template when creating slides.

Next Steps

Moving forward, please contact Mark G. Milone to review proposed topics.
Authors will be selected by SANS in its sole discretion. Once we get rolling
a little bit, Mark will contact you to arrange a conference call with all
authors and discuss lecturing at the program.

Thank you, once again, for your interest in this exciting project! Do not
hesitate to call if you have any questions.

-Mark G. Milone
212-299-2369
milone at mindspring.com


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