Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!std-unix From: std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Access to UNIX User Groups and Publications Message-ID: <4284@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 19 Dec 87 23:16:26 GMT Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Lines: 251 Approved: jsq@uunet.uu.net (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles, intended to give summary information about UNIX User groups and publications; to be accurate, but not exhaustive. 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, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, DECUS journal: Computing Systems newsletters: ;login:, CommUNIXations, /usr/digest, EUUGN, AUUGN, NUZ magazines: UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD, IX Magazine, UNIX Systems, UNIX Magazine Telephone numbers are given in international format, i.e., +n at the beginning for the country code, e.g., +44 is England, +81 Japan, +82 Korea, +61 Australia, +64 New Zealand, and +1 is U.S.A. or Canada. 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 U.S.A. +1-415-528-8649 {uunet,ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office office@usenix.org 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 May 12-13 1987 Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC Fifth Workshop on Real-Time Software and Operating Systems IEEE Computer Society and USENIX Association 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. In 1988, USENIX will start publishing a new refereed quarterly technical journal, ``Computing Systems: The Journal of the USENIX Association,'' in cooperation with University of California Press. 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 (e.g., uunet), 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 Interface 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 U.S.A. tel: +1-408-986-8840 fax: +1-408-986-1645 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. Proceedings for all conferences are available at the shows and later by mail. /usr/group publishes ``CommUNIXations,'' a member magazine that features 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 Technical Committee on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. They have recently produced an overview of the POSIX standard, ``POSIX Explored,'' 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 Telephone +44 763 73039 Telefax +44 763 73260 uunet!mcvax!inset!euug euug@inset.co.uk They have a newsletter, EUUGN, and hold two conferences a year. The next one is in London, England, 11-15 April 1988, followed by Lisbon, Portugal, in October. AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems Users Group. AUUG P.O. Box 366 Kensington N.S.W. 2033 Australia uunet!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. The next meeting is in February 1987. They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined to be every 2 months. The New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group, Inc. (NZUSUGI) has an annual meeting (in June this year), and publishes a newsletter, ``NUZ.'' New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group P.O. Box 585 Hamilton New Zealand +64-9-454000 The Korean UNIX User Group has a software distribution service and a newsletter. Korean UNIX User Group ETRI P.O. Box 8 Daedug Science Town Chungnam 300-32 Republic of Korea +82-042-822-4455 The Japan UNIX Society has two meetings a year, and a newsletter. Japan UNIX Society #505 Towa-Hanzomon Corp. Bldg. 2-12 Hayabusa-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102 Japan +81-03-234-2611 There are similar groups in other parts of the world. If such a group wishes to be included in later versions of this access list, they should please send me information. There is a partial list of national organizations in the November/December 1987 CommUNIXations. 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 U.S.A. +1-617-480-3418 See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus. The main general circulation (more than 10,000 copies per issue) 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 U.S.A. U.S.A. +1-415-397-1881 +1-415-940-1500 IX Magazine UNIX Systems Storyplace Ltd. Eaglehead Publishing Ltd. 137-139 Euston Road Maybury Road London NW1 2AU Woking, Surrey GU21 5HX England England +44-48-6227661 UNIX Magazine Jouji Ohkubo c/o ASCII Corp. jou-o@ascii.junet +81-3-486-4523 fax: +81-3-486-4520 telex: 242-6875 ASCIIJ Some of the above information about magazines was taken from the November/December 1987 issue of CommUNIXations, which also lists some smaller-circulation magazines and newsletters. The following information about bookstores was taken from the same issue. In the interests of space, I have arbitrarily limited the selection listed here to those bookstores or suppliers specifically dedicated to computer books, and not part of other organizations. Computer Literacy Bookshop UNIX Book Service 2590 No. First St. 35 Bermuda Terrace San Jose, CA 95131 Cambridge, CB4 3LD U.S.A. England +1-408-4350-1118 +44-223-313273 Cucumber Bookshop Jim Joyce's UNIX Book Store 5611 Kraft Ave. 47 Potomac St. Rockville, MD 20852 San Francisco, CA 94117 U.S.A. U.S.A. +1-301-881-2722 +1-415-626-7581 Volume-Number: Volume 12, Number 28