The Columbus Local Unix Group comes out of the SLUG ashes
Mark A. Verber
verber at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
Fri Feb 23 14:47:03 AEST 1990
It looks like I am the person who is coordinating bring SLUG back to
life. Most people seem to think that we should come back as a general
Unix group (rather than Sun specific) to broaden our appeal. We are
trying to involve more of the community.
We are hoping to create a local group where professionals and
enthusiasts can exchange experience, knowledge, etc. with one
another. The primary thrust of the group will be education and
cooperation between sites.
There is a mailing list for information and discussion between members
of CLUG. The mailing list is:
clug at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
Requests like please add/remove me from the list should go to:
clug-request at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
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There are currently plans for four initial projects:
(1) Monthly meetings.
Most meetings will be on a particular topic. The meetings will normal
start with the group business, continue on to a presentation on the
key topic. All meetings will be the first Monday of the month,
between 7-9pm on the OSU campus, in Baker Systems room 120.
Tentative plans for the first few speakers are:
Mar Large Scale NFS Service Dr. Bruce Nelson, Auspex
Apr Unix: Past, Present, Future Bob Fraik, NeXT
May Improving Unix Security Steve Romig, OSU CIS
June Choosing a Window System Bob Sutterfield, MorningStar
July Co-Existence: Macs, PC, Unix Mark Verber, OSU Physics
Aug Networking Karl Kleinpaste
(2) Quarterly newsletter.
The newsletter will summarize developments in the Unix community at
large, and in Central Ohio in particular. We will have some regular
columns, letters to the editor, and announcements.
(3) Workshops and tutorials.
The group will organize and cooperate tutorials that are of interest
to the general Unix community. These tutorials with be taught by
qualified personal. The tutorials will either be free, or offered at
a low cost. Some of you may have attended some of our initial
tutorials on the OSU campus when they were sponsored by the IRCC.
Initial tutorials will include:
Networking with TCP/IP
Basic Unix System Administration
(4) Provide a free "public" access Unix machine.
This machine will have mail and netnews. It looks like Pinnacle
Systems will be donating a Sun 3/180 with terminal lines and two
disks. We already have a number of people who will admin the machine.
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To get this project off the ground, we are asking people to step forward
who can offer any of the following.
*Name*
We need a name. What do you like? Suggest a name, or vote for one of
the names already suggested:
calix Columbus Area Local Unix
clu Columbus Local Unix
clue Columbus Local Unix Environments
clug Columbus Local Unix Group
colug Central Ohio Local Unix Group
crux Columbus Region Unix
*Non-Profit Law*
We hope to incorporation this group as a non-profit educational
organization (along the lines of Usenix Associate) so we can receive
tax-deducible donations. If you have experience with non-profit law,
please contact me.
*Money*
We would be happy to take money from anyone who wants to add to our
startup budget. Money will be used for supporting the public Unix
machine and some startup expenses.
*Writers*
We would like the newsletter to be of the highest quality. We are looking
for people who would be interested in writing articles or columns. We
are thinking about columns on new products, people, networking, etc.
It looks like the editor I had lined up has gotten too busy, so was are
also looking for a person to manage the newsletter.
*Coordinators*
We are trying to set up at least one coordinator in each large
organization (eg OCLC, OSU, Chem Abs, etc) that will help organize
their own company people, make people aware of the local Unix group,
and try and get people involved. A number of people have already
volunteered to do this work. Anyone from one of these companies that
is interested in helping: please contact the appropriate coordinator.
Otherwise feel free to contact me.
Teja Betz 860-7027 AT&T tab at cbusa.att.com
Dave Burhans 764-6268 OCLC osu-cis!sppy00!dwb
Bob Henkel 292-7352 OSU henkel at cis.ohio-state.edu
Bob Kalal 292-4843 OSU kalal at nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu
Larry Virden 447-3600 x2487 ChemAbs chemabs!lwv27 lwv27 at cas.bitnet
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Cheers,
Mark Verber, Ohio State University, Physics Department
verber at mps.ohio-state.edu
(614) 292-8002
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