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- This is the latest in a series of similar mod.std.unix articles.
- Corrections and additions to this article are solicited.
- The newsgroup mod.std.unix will very soon be known as comp.std.unix.
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- Access information is given in this article for the following:
- user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, EUUG, AUUG, DECUS
- newsletters: ;login:, CommUNIXations, EUUG, AUUGN
- magazines: UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD
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- UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T.
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- USENIX is "The Professional and Technical UNIX(R) Association."
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- USENIX Association
- P.O. Box 7
- El Cerrito, CA 94530
- 415-528-8649
- {ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office
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- USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers,
- as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences:
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- Jun 8-12 1987 Hyatt Regency, Phoenix, AZ
- Feb 10-12 1988 Registry Hotel, Dallas, TX, concurrent with Uniforum
- Jun 21-24 1988 Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, CA
- Feb 1- 3 1989 Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, CA
- Jun 13-16 1989 Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
- Jun 11-15 1990 Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
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- They also sponsor workshops, such as
- Apr 9-10 1987 Palace Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
- Large Installation System Administrator's Workshop
- Oct 8- 9 1987 Cambridge Marriott, Cambridge, MA
- 4th USENIX Computer Graphics Workshop
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- Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at
- the door and by mail later.
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- USENIX publishes ";login: The USENIX Association Newsletter"
- bimonthly. It is sent free of charge to all their members and
- includes technical papers. There is a USENET newsgroup,
- comp.org.usenix, for discussion of USENIX-related matters.
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- They also publish an edition of the 4.3BSD manuals, and they
- occasionally sponsor experiments, such as methods of improving
- the USENET and UUCP networks, that are of interest and use to
- the membership. They also distribute tapes of contributed software
- and are pursuing expanding that activity.
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- There is a USENIX Institutional Representative on the IEEE P1003
- Portable Operating System for Computer Environments Committee.
- That representative also moderates the USENET newsgroup mod.std.unix,
- which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
- For more details, see the posting in mod.std.unix about Access
- to UNIX-Related Standards.
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- /usr/group is "the commercially oriented UNIX system users organization."
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- /usr/group
- 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
- Santa Clara, California 95054
- 408-986-8840
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- The annual UniForum Conferences are sponsored by /usr/group and feature
- a large trade show, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.
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- Feb 10-12 1988 Infomart, Dallas, TX, concurrent with USENIX
- March 1989 San Francisco
- Winter 1990 Washington, D.C.
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- They have also started a regional show:
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- August 1988 Washington, D.C.
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- /usr/group publishes a bimonthly newsletter called CommUNIXations,
- which includes much current industry news.
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- They also publish the UNIX Products Directory, which offers
- information on UNIX-related products.
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- /usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
- having sponsored the /usr/group Standard, providing an Institutional
- Representative to the IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer
- Environments Committee, and sponsoring the /usr/group Working Groups
- on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. For more details, see the
- posting about Access to UNIX-Related Standards.
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- EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group.
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- EUUG secretariat
- Owles Hall
- Buntingford
- Herts SG9 9PL
- England
- seismo!mcvax!euug
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- They have a newsletter and hold two conferences a year.
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- AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems users Group.
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- AUUG
- P.O. Box 366
- Kensington
- N.S.W. 2033
- Australia
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- seismo!munnari!auug
- auug@munnari.oz.au
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- Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225
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- AUUG holds biennial conferences, usually of 2 days each:
- the next one will probably be in late February 1986.
- They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined
- to be every 2 months.
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- There are similar groups in other parts of the world, such as Japan and
- Korea. If such a group wishes to be included in later versions of this
- access list, they should please send me information.
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- Also, DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society,
- has a UNIX SIG (Special Interest Group) which participates
- in its meetings, which are held twice a year. The next
- one will be in Nashville, Tennessee, 27 April - 1 May 1987.
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- DECUS U.S. Chapter
- 219 Boston Post Road, BP02
- Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752-1850
- 617-480-3418
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- See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus.
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- The two main general circulation magazines about the UNIX system are
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- UNIX REVIEW UNIX/WORLD
- Miller Freeman Publications Co. Tech Valley Publishing
- 500 Howard Street 444 Castro St.
- San Francisco, CA 94105 Mountain View, CA 94041
- 415-397-1881 415-940-1500
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- Volume-Number: Volume 10, Number 20
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