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Subject: FIG Suspends Chapter Coordinator!
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Date: 9 May 90 03:44:44 GMT
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Category 8,  Topic 24
Message 21        Mon May 07, 1990
DANMILLER [dr. dan]          at 23:15 CDT
 
No dark secret.  ACM SIGFORTH was started to promote Forth. Not in
 competition with FIG but to address a different market. To reach
 the computer establishment and gain some programming jobs.  We tried
 linking to IEEE but that is very difficult for a small group.  The
 ACM has been very hospitable.  The link to ACM gives us a presence
 and mature stature.  We will be hosting our annual conference next
 year in San Antonio to coincide with and draw attendees from the
 ACM SIGCSE  (computer science education conference ) whose attendees
 number in the several thousands!  hopefully a few will drop by
 the Forth conference.  Sigforth is volunteer and has the manpower
 shortage/volunteer shortage any volunteer group has, exacerbated
 by the small number of active forth programmers.  I think fig does
 and has done a good job. (jax, raspberries) .  Sigforth has been
 attempting to reach out in a different direction, not in competition,
 but for the same end.  I might add, that so far its not been any
 more sucessful than FIG.  but hopefully the effects of the two
 groups will be cumulative.
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