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- Date: 13 Dec 1992 13:44:21 -0800
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- A Changing of the Guard for the
- Usenix Institutional Representative to POSIX
-
- At its Fall meeting, the USENIX Board of Directors authorized funds
- for 1993 for an Institutional Representative (IR) to the IEEE
- Computer Society Technical Committee on Operating Systems (TCOS).
-
- The USENIX IR has two basic responsibilities. First, to be an
- informed participant representing the USENIX membership in the
- POSIX activities. Being an informed participant requires attending
- POSIX meetings, reading the mailings, and discussing and soliciting
- input about the activities from technical experts and the USENIX
- membership.
-
- The second task is to feed information about the POSIX activities
- back to the USENIX membership. This feedback is done through the
- snitch reports that appear after each POSIX meeting in comp.std.unix
- and in this newsletter. Through these reports, USENIX provides
- critical information to both its members and other interested
- individuals worldwide.
-
- Peter Collinson has held the IR post for the past two years. While
- he has been active in the UNIX community for many years, Peter was
- new to the POSIX community. It took him relatively little time,
- however, to quickly become immersed in the politics of POSIX and
- begin making significant contributions both at the meetings and in
- the subsequent reports to USENIX. Two years hence (and six trips
- annually from England to POSIX and Usenix meetings in the United
- States), Peter has indicated his desire to step down at the end of
- this year. Peter's contributions have been highly valued, and I
- am sure he will be missed by the POSIX community. He brought a
- useful focus on ``reality'' at times when many folks were caught
- up in what is best characterized as ``religious zeal''.
-
- Last summer, the USENIX Board of Directors formed a subcommittee
- with Peter Collinson's assistance to search for candidates. We
- are pleased to announce that the IR position has been offered to
- Jeffrey Haemer, of Canary Software, Inc., Boulder, Colorado, and
- he has accepted.
-
- Jeff has been involved with standards and Usenix for many years.
- He served as the Usenix watchdog editor writing, coordinating, and
- editing articles about UNIX-related standards activities for USENIX.
- He has also attended POSIX meetings on and off since their inception.
- Jeff has lectured on standards, portability, internationalization,
- and open systems at shows and conferences that include USENIX, 6th
- Annual Berkeley Developer's Conference, Sun Expo, IEEE's CompCon,
- and the First and Second Gulf UNIX Conferences (in Kuwait, before
- and after the war).
-
- Besides his duties at POSIX meetings, you will see him at USENIX
- conferences, where he will coordinate the Standard BOFs, discuss
- standards issues with our membership, recruit and instruct snitches,
- and work with the snitch editor (Stephen Walli) in publishing the
- reports.
-
- Jeff will be attending the four IEEE POSIX meetings in 1993. He
- can be reached via email: jsh@canary.com or by phone: +1-303-494-0924.
- Welcome aboard Jeff!
-
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 80
-