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- This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles.
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- Corrections and additions to this article are solicited.
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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 2299
- Berkeley, CA 94710
- 415-528-8649
- {uunet,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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- 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
- Oct 8- 9 1987 Cambridge Marriott, Cambridge, MA
- 4th USENIX Computer Graphics Workshop
- Oct 22-23 1987 Contact Jim McGinness: decvax!jmcg
- POSIX Portability Workshop
- Nov 1987 Santa Fe, NM Contact Dave Yost:
- C++ Workshop {attmail,uunet,usenix}!grand!day
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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 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 comp.std.unix,
- which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
- For more details, see the posting in comp.std.unix about Access
- to UNIX-Related Standards.
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- /usr/group is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the promotion
- of products and services based on the UNIX operating system.
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- /usr/group
- 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
- Santa Clara, California 95054
- tel: 408-986-8840
- fax: 408-986-1645
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- The annual UniForum Conference and Trade Show is sponsored by /usr/group
- and features vendor exhibits, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.
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- Feb 8-11 1988 Infomart, Dallas, TX, concurrent with USENIX
- Feb 28-Mar 3 1989 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
- Jan 23-26 1990 Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
- Jan 22-25 1991 Infomart, Dallas, TX
- Jan 21-24 1992 Moscone Center, San Francisco CA (tentative)
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- They also sponsor a regional show, UniForum D.C.:
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- Aug 2-4 1988 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
- Aug 1-3 1989 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
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- Proceedings for all conferences are available at the shows and later
- by mail.
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- /usr/group publishes "CommUNIXations", a member magazine that featues
- articles by industry leaders and observers, technical issues,
- standards coverage, and new product announcements.
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- /usr/group also publishes the "UNIX Products Directory," which lists
- products and services developed specifically for the UNIX operating system.
- "/usr/digest" is also published by /usr/group. This newsletter covers
- product announcements and industry projections, and is sent to members
- biweekly.
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- /usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
- having sponsored the "/usr/group 1984 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. They have recently produced
- an Executive Summary of the POSIX standard and funded production of a
- draft of a Rationale and Notes appendix for that standard.
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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
- euug@inset.uucp
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- They have a newsletter and hold two conferences a year.
- The next one is in Dublin, Ireland, 21-25 September,
- followed by London, England, 11-15 April 1988.
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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.
- They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined
- to be every 2 months.
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- The next meeting is in Sydney, 27-28 August 1987.
- The host is by NSWIT, and for more info people should contact
- gregw@nswitgould.oz.au, or to submit a paper, bob@basser.cs.su.oz.au
- (deadline for Abstracts is July 10).
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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.
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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 12, Number 15
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