Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!std-unix From: std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (Moderator, John Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Access to UNIX User Groups and Publications Message-ID: <974@uunet.UU.NET> Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 23:13:59 EDT Article-I.D.: uunet.974 Posted: Mon Aug 17 23:13:59 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Aug-87 02:51:40 EDT Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Lines: 169 Approved: jsq@uunet (Moderator, John Quarterman) This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles. Corrections and additions to this article are solicited. 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 UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T. USENIX is "The Professional and Technical UNIX(R) Association." USENIX Association P.O. Box 2299 Berkeley, CA 94710 415-528-8649 {uunet,ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers, as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences: 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 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 Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at the door and by mail later. 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. 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. 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. /usr/group is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the promotion of products and services based on the UNIX operating system. /usr/group 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200 Santa Clara, California 95054 tel: 408-986-8840 fax: 408-986-1645 The annual UniForum Conference and Trade Show is sponsored by /usr/group and features vendor exhibits, as well as tutorials and technical sessions. 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) They also sponsor a regional show, UniForum D.C.: Aug 2-4 1988 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. Aug 1-3 1989 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. Proceedings for all conferences are available at the shows and later by mail. /usr/group publishes "CommUNIXations", a member magazine that featues articles by industry leaders and observers, technical issues, standards coverage, and new product announcements. /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. /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. EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group. EUUG secretariat Owles Hall Buntingford Herts SG9 9PL England seismo!mcvax!euug euug@inset.uucp 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. AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems Users Group. AUUG P.O. Box 366 Kensington N.S.W. 2033 Australia seismo!munnari!auug auug@munnari.oz.au Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225 AUUG holds biennial conferences, usually of 2 days each. They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined to be every 2 months. 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). 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. 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. DECUS U.S. Chapter 219 Boston Post Road, BP02 Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752-1850 617-480-3418 See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus. The two main general circulation magazines about the UNIX system are 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 Volume-Number: Volume 12, Number 15