Amcnc.1081
net.general
utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!jte
Tue Mar  9 13:07:28 1982
Re: decvax.182: Usenix and /usr/group
	I agree with decvax!aps concerning the joint USENIX-/usr/group
conference possibility. There is just no room in the schedule
format for 50% more talks. However, having expanded vendor
presentations would be nice, and being able to interact with
the /usr/group members would be very benificial. There are
(at least) two possibilities.
	1) Goto overlapped presentations ala larger conferences
with technical talks at the same time as commercial/vendor talks.
Thus, it would be possible to see a pure set of USENIX talks,
or one could take in /u/g presentations of individual interest.
This allows maximum interaction between the two groups.
	2) Ask /usr/group to do like Software Tools and plan their
conference just before or after USENIX. Vendors could stay around
and people interested in both groups could overlap one or more days.
	As I recall, the board discussed this subject in a meeting
I did not attend (due to some BOF), but I do not remember any
summary of that discussion during the daily presentations.
If this is all correct, I too would disagree with the board
committing us to a joint conference. If someone is seriously
upset with the board on this (or some other) matter, I have my
USENIX officer nominations form handy and would be pleased
to nominate anyone willing to put in the necessary time!
			- James Ellis