Xref: utzoo comp.std.unix:236 comp.org.usenix:596 comp.unix.questions:9171 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!longway!std-unix From: std-unix@uunet.UU.NET Newsgroups: comp.std.unix,comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.questions Subject: Access to UNIX User Groups Message-ID: <242@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 11 Sep 88 20:07:20 GMT Expires: 2 Nov 88 21:45:37 GMT Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.UU.NET Lines: 390 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) From: std-unix@uunet.UU.NET This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles, intended to give summary information about UNIX User groups; to be accurate, but not exhaustive. It's cross-posted to comp.org.usenix and comp.unix.questions because there might be interest there. There are three related articles, posted at the same time as this one, and with subjects Calendar of UNIX-related Events Access to UNIX-Related Publications Access to UNIX-Related Standards The latter is posted only to comp.std.unix. Corrections and additions to this article are solicited. I keep track of the conferences, groups, and publications that I attend, am a member of, or subscribe to. All others (the majority of the listings) I derive either from listings elsewhere, or from contributions by readers. In particular, the meeting schedules and descriptions of most of the groups are provided by their members. If a group doesn't have a meeting schedule listed, it's because nobody has sent me one. This is a low-budget operation: I publish what I have on hand when the time comes (approximately monthly). Changes since last posting: USENIX Conferences 1992 and 1993, and corrected dates, 1989-1991. UniForum 1993. UNIX EXPO. EUUG dates, locations, hotels, 1988-1991. JUS UNIX Fair '88 dates. AMIX date. All dates put in same format as in the calendar posting. Publications split into separate posting. Access information is given in this article for the following: user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, UNIX Expo, EUUG, AUUG, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, AMIX, DECUS UNIX SIG, Sun User Group (SUG), Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society (ADUS), AT&T and Sun V.4 Software Developer Conferences, Open Software Foundation (OSF). 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: 1989 Jan 30-Feb 3 USENIX Town & Country Inn, San Diego, CA 1989 Jun 12-16 USENIX Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD 1990 Jan 22-26 USENIX Washington, DC 1990 Jun 11-15 USENIX Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA 1991 Jan 21-25 USENIX Dallas, TX 1991 Jun 10-14 USENIX Opryland, Nashville, TN 1992 Jan 20-24 USENIX Hilton Square, San Francisco, CA 1992 Jun 8-12 USENIX Marriott, San Antonio, TX 1993 Jan USENIX somewhere in northeast of North America They also sponsor workshops, such as 1988 Sep 26-27 U&Supercomp. W USENIX, Pittsburgh, PA 1988 Oct 17-21 C++ Conference USENIX, Denver, CO 1988 Nov 17-18 Large Install. Syst. Adm. W II, USENIX, Monterey, CA 1989 Apr Soft. Management W USENIX, New Orleans, LA 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 started 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 distribute the 2.10BSD software distribution. They coordinate a software exchange for appropriately licensed members. 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. 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. There is also a USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee following several standards bodies. For more details, see the posting in comp.std.unix, ``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. 1989 Feb 28-Mar 3 UniForum Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA 1990 Jan 23-26 UniForum Washington Hilton, Washington, DC 1991 Jan 22-25 UniForum Infomart, Dallas, TX 1992 Jan 21-24 UniForum Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA 1993 Mar 2-4 UniForum 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 biweekly to General members of /usr/group and to non-member subscribers. /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 executive summary, ``Your Guide to POSIX,'' and a technical overview ``POSIX Explored,'' and funded production of a draft of a ``Rationale and Notes'' appendix for IEEE 1003.1. UNIX EXPO is an annual very large vendor exhibit in New York City with tutorials and technical presentations. It is held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, with lodging arrangements with the Sheraton Centre Hotel, both in Manhattan. 1988 Oct 31-Nov 2 UNIX EXPO Javits Conv. C, New York, NY National Expositions Co., Inc. 15 West 39th Street New York, NY 10018 U.S.A. +1-212-581-1000 Telex: 421130 Fax: +1-212-262-4410 Reservations Department Sheraton Centre Hotel 811 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10019 U.S.A. EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group, which is currently celebrating its tenth anniversary. EUUG is closely coordinated with national groups in Europe, and with the European UNIX network, EUnet. EUUG secretariat Owles Hall Buntingford Herts SG9 9PL England +44 763 73039 fax: +44 763 73255 uunet!mcvax!inset!euug euug@inset.co.uk They have a newsletter, EUUGN (a previous version of this article appeared in the latest one), and hold two conferences a year: 1988 Oct 3-7 Lisbon, Portugal 1989 Apr 10-14 Brussels, Belgium 1988 Oct 3-7 EUUG Hotel Estoril Sol, Estoril, Portugal Chair: Dr Peter Collinson 1988 Apr 3-7 EUUG Palais des Congres, Brussels, Belgium Chair: Prof Marc Nyssen 1989 Sep 18-22 EUUG WU Vien, Vienna, Austria Chair: eva Kuehn 1990 Apr 23-27 EUUG Munich, Germany (tentative) 1990 Autumn EUUG south of France 1991 Spring EUUG Tromso?, Norway (tentative) 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 at least one conference a year, usually in the spring (August or September). The next one will be 1988 Sep 13-15 AUUG Melbourne It will be the first three day meeting, will have a larger equipment exhibition than any before, and will be professionally organized for the first time. 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 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 (KUUG) 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 (JUS) #505 Towa-Hanzomon Corp. Bldg. 2-12 Hayabusa-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102 Japan bod%jus.junet@uunet.uu.net +81-3-234-5058 1988 Nov 10-11 UNIX Symposium Osaka, Japan 1988 Dec 17-18 UNIX FAIR '88 Tokyo, Japan AMIX - the Israeli UNIX user group, is a S.I.G. of the Israeli Processing Association (IPA). AMIX has a yearly conference: 1989 May 14-16 AMIX Israel AMIX, c/o IPA P.O. Box 919 Ramat-Gan Israel, 52109 Tel: +972-3-715770 Tel: +972-3-715772 amix@bimacs.bitnet amix@bimacs.biu.ac.il 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. DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society, has a UNIX SIG (Special Interest Group) that participates in its general 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 The next DECUS Symposia are: 1988 Oct 17-21 DECUS S Anaheim, California 1989 May 8-12 DECUS S Atlanta, Georgia 1989 Nov 6-10 DECUS S Anaheim, California 1990 May 7-11 DECUS S New Orleans, Louisiana See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus. The Sun User Group (SUG) is an international organization that promotes communication among Sun users, OEMs, third party vendors, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. SUG sponsors conferences, collects and distributes software, produces the README newsletter and T-shirts, sponsors local user groups, and communicates members' problems to Sun employees and management. Sun Microsystems User Group, Inc. 2550 Garcia Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 U.S.A. +1 415 960 1300 users@sun.com sun!users Their next annual conference is: 1988 Dec 5-7 SUG Fontainebleau Hilton, Miami Beach, Florida ADUS is the Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society: Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society c/o Andrea Woloski, ADUS Coordinator Apollo Computer Inc. 330 Billerica Rd. Chelmsford, MA 01824 +1-617-256-6600, x4448 AT&T and Sun Microsystems are holding a series of Software Developer Conferences on System V Release 4.0, related to the Sun/AT&T Applications Binary Interface (ABI). 1988 Sep 14-16 New York, NY 1988 Sep 27-29 Los Angeles, CA 1988 Oct 11-13 Tokyo, Japan 1988 Oct 25-27 London, England 1988 Nov 9-11 Boston, MA 1988 Nov 29-Dec 1 Chicago, IL 1988 Dec 13-15 Washington, DC 1988 TBA Toronto, ON For more information, call 1-800-387-6100. The Open Software Foundation (OSF) is a vendor group formed 17 May 1988 by Apollo, Bull, DEC, HP, IBM, Nixdorff, and Siemens, and later joined by Philips. Excerpts from a press release of that date: The Open Software Foundation (OSF) will develop a software environment, including application interfaces, advanced system extensions, and a new operating system, using X/Open(tm) and POSIX* specifications as the starting point. ... OSF membership is available to computer hardware and software suppliers, educational institutions, and government agencies around the world. ... The foundation has a management organization, staff, and a funding comittment in excess of $90 million to begin immediate operations. Its initial development will be based on technologies offered by the members and its own research, to be carried out worldwide. A research institute is being created to fund research for the advancement of applications portability, interoperability standards, and other advanced technologies for future foundation use. An academic advisory panel will provide guidance and input to the institute. The Institute's research will be conducted worldwide. For more information, contact: Deborah Siegel Cohn & Wolfe +1-212-951-8300 or +1-508-683-6803 Larry Lytle or Gary McCormack Open Software Foundation 20 Ballard Way Lawrence, MA 01843 Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 10