donn@sdchema.UUCP (Donn Seeley) (08/10/83)
For us lazy (or frugal) West Coast types who didn't make it to the Toronto Usenix, could I ask where the January 1984 Usenix is really going to be held? Someone must have mentioned this but I missed it. Is it going to be on the West Coast? Who is the sponsoring organization? Is there going to be another Usenix vs. /usr/group (or Uniforum or whatever) fiasco? Will there be a vendor exposition? I was previously under the impression that the venue was going to be Salt Lake City; who had the bright idea to change this to June 1984? Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn
thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) (08/17/83)
Salt Lake lost out at the SD conference (big fight at the board meeting, you should have been there). The Winter 84 conference (joint with /usr/group, or whatever their name is this month) is supposed to be in D.C. See you in Salt Lake in June 84. =Spencer
trb@floyd.UUCP (Andy Tannenbaum) (08/17/83)
Winter USENIX in Washinton DC, summer USENIX in SLC? I hear the skiing in DC is pretty hot. And we're going back to joint conferences with /usr/group? Oh, that really sucks. It sucks. I can only assume that there was some transcendental logic behind these decisions. I hope that the hackers unite at the next USENIX to chase away /usr/group forever. Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491 This note is, of course, my opinion rather than the Bell System (or whatever we have to call it today) company line. I imagine that it's also the opinion of much of the hacker and skier contingent.
ber@gummo.UUCP () (08/18/83)
Trb's right. It does suck! But the recreational aspect is not important. I would guess that the compromises (changing the meeting location holding a winter meeting in the East, collaborating with usr-group) were made out of consideration for the new Unix community. usr-group represents that community. Unfortunately I have very little in common with the binary only world. I guess that'll leave me out in the cold (probably skiing in Vermont) in the near future. All in favor of a Unix boff at Salt Lake during the DC meeting send mail to utah-cs!fjl. We'll talk about we're doing? Put together a common kernel distribution (how many levels of #ifdef can cpp handle)? Think up some new games? Try to get all our shell scripts down to one liners? Heck, we could spend a day trying to convince everyone why they should fix/break uucp*. This is a "Sign of the Times", The Belle Stars *uucp is a trademark of lauren weinstein