evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) (09/07/90)
The first meeting of the Toronto Unix User Group is to take place
Tuesday, September 11 at 7:00 pm, in the Burgundy Room of the North York
Memorial Community Hall.
The group, which has been in the formative stages for a number of months,
is intended to serve as a forum for Unix users of all degrees of experience
as well as the merely curious.
Guest speaker at the inaugural meeting is Trevor John Thompson,
Vice President of Strategic Planning for Mortice Kern Systems
in Kitchener. He will speak on the similarities and differences between
Unix, MS--DOS and OS/2.
No memberships or fees are required to attend this meeting.
Along with giving Unix users the opportunity to meet each other, the
group is designed to help users learn more about Unix. A number of
Special Interest Groups (SIGs), each with its own leader, will deal with
particular elements of Unix:
SIG LEADER
Communications Richard Greenall, Digital Equipment Corp
Databases Lou Ferrante, Sequent Computer Systems
New Users Ted Cowie, TVC Enterprises
Programming D'Arcy Cain, D'Arcy Cain Consulting
Text/Word Processing Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software
Unix Tools Peter Renzland, Ontario Ministry of Health
Graphics/Windows SIG John Dorn, GraphOn
Also planned is an extensive software library, which will offer users
access to the extensive archives of useful Unix free software. Unlike
freely distributed software offered for microcomputers, the programs
offered for Unix come with complete source code, and authors rarely ask
for contributions.
The user group's software library will be maintained by Rick McCalla of
Comspec Computers, Georg Nikodyn of SCO Canada, and Drew Sullivan of
Systems Software.
The user group, which has tentatively been named Torix, will be
affiliated with Uniforum Canada, the national association of Unix
vendors and users. We are also listed as a Local User Group by Usenix.
The North York Memorial Community Hall is located on the bottom floor of
the North York Main Library building, located next to North York
City Hall at the corner of Yonge Street and Park Home Avenue. It is
a short indoor walk from the North York Centre station of the Toronto
subway.
For further information call me at (416) 452--0504.
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Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
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