Access to UNIX User Groups

std-unix at uunet.UU.NET std-unix at uunet.UU.NET
Mon Sep 12 06:07:20 AEST 1988


From: std-unix at 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 at 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 at 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	<pc at ukc.ac.uk>
1988 Apr 3-7	EUUG	Palais des Congres, Brussels, Belgium
		Chair:	Prof Marc Nyssen	<marc at minf.vub.uucp>
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 at 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 at 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 at bimacs.bitnet
		amix at 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 at 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



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