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From news.cs.indiana.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!gatech!concert!decwrl!world!troll Sun Apr 4 18:47:49 EDT 1993 Article: 762 of comp.org.sug Xref: babbage.ece.uc.edu comp.org.usenix:1971 comp.org.sug:762 comp.os.misc:1570 comp.misc:8117 Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.org.sug,comp.org.uniforum,comp.os.misc,comp.misc Path: babbage.ece.uc.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!gatech!concert!decwrl!world!troll From: troll@sug.org (A. Newman) Subject: FAQ: What is the Sun User Group Message-ID: <C4vK0K.91s@world.std.com> Followup-To: comp.org.sug Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr USENET himself) Nntp-Posting-Host: bridge.sug.org Organization: Sun User Group Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 21:07:31 GMT Lines: 279 Become a SUG member today! * Vendor Discounts * Technical Conferences * Software Distribution * README Newsletter * Annual Exhibits * Local User Group Support * Electronic Mailing List * Newsgroup comp.org.sug Sun User Group, Inc. 1330 Beacon Street, Suite 315 Brookline, MA 02146 USA voice: +1 617 232-0514 fax: +1 617 232-1347 office@sug.org Statement of Purpose The Sun User Group, Inc., is an international, not-for-profit, technical and professional association. Our members are users, developers, programmers, manufacturers, and resellers of hardware and software either produced or licensed by Sun Microsystems, or which expands or enhances the capabilities of such equipment. The Sun User Group encourages communication of innovative research and development of technology through its conferences, exhibits and publications. The Sun User Group also serves as a distribution point for contributed software in tape and CD-ROM formats. The Sun User Group is incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a not-for-profit, educational, and charitable organization. SUG is governed by a Board of Directors, each of whom serves a three-year term. Members receive: * Software and Hardware Discounts * Discounts with leading technical publishers * Discounts on conference registrations * Bimonthly newsletter README * Right to purchase contributed software * Access to the Members-Only Electronic Mailing List * Local User Group support Membership is open to all interested individuals and costs: * $40 per year * $55 if outside the USA Additonally, membership benefits may be extended to employees of sponsoring companies. Please contact the SUG office at (617) 232- 0514 for more information. Conferences The Sun User Group sponsors one major conference each December in San Jose, California. This Conference has a large vendor exhibit and features a day of tutorials and several days of technical sessions. The conferences are attended by members from around the world: the 1992 Conference was attended by over 4000 individuals from 24 countries, and 43 of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia. We also provide tutorials and technical sessions at other exhibitions and conferences around the world. Past tutorials have included:. The Internet Basic and Advanced Systems Administration UNIX Device Drivers XView Migrating to Solaris Writing Distributed Applications The Domain Name System Perl Mixed-OS Administration The Sun User Group is dedicated to keeping in the forefront of Sun and Sun-licensed technology. Our tutorials reflect the changing interests and demands of our technical and professional community. Technical proceedings, containing written versions of most of the papers presented at the conferences, are available for the past three SUG conferences. In 1993, the Sun User Group in cooperation with PCI, began the SUG-East shows. Like the annual SUG conferences, the SUG-East shows feature three days of technical tracks, tutorials, and exhibits. The next SUG-East is in Boston, MA on July 27-29 1993. For more information about SUG-East, please call 1 (800) 727-EXPO or the Sun User Group office. Local User Groups One of the ways of getting to know your colleagues is through a local user group. Local User Groups (LUGs) exist throughout the world. Currently, there are LUGs in 25 states and 15 countries. The Sun User Group supports these local groups with listings, literature, a mailing list, and organizational assistance. Several international LUGs have entered into formal arrangements with the Sun User Group to ensure that their members receive README and other SUG benefits. Periodicals The Sun User Group publishes a bimonthly newsletter, README, which contains technical articles, User Group news, and Sun Microsystems and third-party vendor information. README is also one of the ways through which SUG keeps its members informed about new developments, beneifts, and shows. Submissions are encouraged, and may be sent to readme@sug.org. Past issues included articles concerning superuser privileges, domain name servers, and networks. Sun User Group members are also entitled to receive monthly copies of SunExpert magazine and Workstation News. SunExpert, published by Computer Publishing Group, serves the UNIX workstation environment, emphasizing Sun, SPARC, and Sun-compatible systems. Workstation News is a monthly publication devoted to presenting the latest industry information for the UNIX user. Member Discounts Sun User Group members are entitled to a variety of textbook and training discounts from publishers. * Addison-Wesley 15% off books and training * O'Reilly and Assoc. 10% off books * Prentice Hall 15% off books * USENIX 30% off on Computing Systems * Dataram up to 40% on memory modules * Qualix Group 15% on software purchases * DUX Software SimCity for more than 15% off * Software Moguls 15% on SM-arch We are negotiating with other publishers as well as with other hardware and software vendors to offer further member discounts. The Email List For our members with electronic mail, the Sun User Group maintains an electronic mailing list. The mailing-list is available only as a benefit of membership in the Sun User Group. If your SUG membership is not current you will not be placed on the mailing-list even if you request it. The list is a forum for the discussion of the needs of SUG members, both from the user group and from vendors. It also provides SUG with a fast and easy way to alert users to new developments in user group, such as new member benefits or late-breaking conference news. If you would like to be added to the electronic mailing list, be sure to check off the appropriate box on the membership application and include a valid email address. Alternately, you can send mail to 'member-request@sug.org'. Software Library The Sun User Group makes available public domain (unsupported, donated) software. In the past, there have been software tapes; in 1991, keeping in the technological forefront, SUG issued a CD-ROM. The 1991 SUG CD-ROM contains 300MB of source code, fully-indexed archives of Sun-related net postings, plug-and-play X11R4, compiled Sun 4 binaries and nearly 200MB of Sun Micro- systems' software patches. The 1992.1 disk, which was assembled by Robert A. Bruce, has 543MB of material, including X11R5, 212MB of contributed X sources, GNU sources, libraries, SPARC binaries, and an archive of comp.source.X postings. The 1992.2 disk has nearly 650MB including more SPARC binaries, resource materials, archives, patches, and source code not found on previous disks. For further information on any of our CDs, send email to office@sug.org. Sun User Group Individual Membership Application Mail, Email, or FAX the application to: Sun User Group, Inc. 1330 Beacon Street, Suite 315 Brookline, MA 02146 USA +1 617 232-0514 Email: office@sug.org Fax: (617) 232-1347 You may also join over the telephone with a Master Card or Visa. Please print or type the information required. 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