dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) (01/14/91)
The 3B1/7300 Birds Of a Feather session at the USENIX conference in Dallas has been officially confirmed for Thursday January 24th at 8:00 pm. The exact location of the BOF is not known yet, although it will be somewhere within the Grand Kempinski hotel. Check the BOF board in the conference registration area for the room assignment. I forgot to specify how long I expected the BOF to last so I'm not sure how long the room is available to us. In the past, most BOFs have been scheduled for 2 hours so I would assume that the same holds true for this one but I will check on it when I arrive at the conference. As of this writing (Sunday 1/13 at 8pm) I have not had any solid offers of a machine that we can use for a software exchange. If there is anyone in or around Dallas that is willing to bring in a machine, or if you know of someone or some organization that can be convinced to lend us a machine, please let me know right away. Without a machine it will be a little difficult to have a software exchange. If we do get a machine then not only can we have a software exchange but we can use the machine during the BOF and poke around inside of it. I have gotten a few offers from people who are willing to talk at the BOF but I would like to get more. If I can get enough people who are willing to present a short talk then nobody would have to talk for more than five or ten minutes (unless you want to talk for longer). Please remember that you don't have to be the worlds greatest expert or be working on the worlds most exciting project in order for other people to want to hear what you have to say. From past experience, the group will consist of everything from experts who might be able to lend some insight into the project you are working on all the way down to total novices who are looking for all the help you are willing to give and even who a few people who don't even own a 3B1 but are interested in hearing about it. Come on people, I have been told that I can be talkative but I don't relish the idea of sitting up there by myself for two hours! If we do not have a software exchange, or even if we do, I am willing to collect donations of software and make them available for anonymous uucp both on my machine and on osu-cis (hopefully). I am also willing to make copies of the disks for people, provided they pay for postage. Any source programs that people bring in will be used to prime the queue for the about-to-be-created comp.sources.3b1 unless you tell me otherwise when you give it to me. -- David H. Brierley Home: dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US Work: dhb@quahog.ssd.ray.com Can I be excused, my brain is full.
lenny@risctakr.austin.ibm.com (Lenny Tropiano) (01/15/91)
Hi everyone! Sorry for the silence on this end. It's been a busy (very busy) few months. I'm very much settled here in Austin, TX, and settled in with IBM. (Obviously you can tell I found out where I can read news and post!). Nevertheless, I want to thank Dave in advance for setting up an UNIX PC BOF. I'm really sorry that I couldn't attend the USENIX Conference this year, being that it's only 2.5 hours north by car from Austin. IBM has me real busy these days, and starting on the 21st I'll be going to a three week course. Again, I apologize that I slacked off on the monthly postings for OSU-Archives and the FAQ posting. I will try my hardest to start up with that again in February. I also am working on details on how I can get a local direct Internet feed (possibly from IBM) so I can ftp to osu-cis and keep the archives up-to-date. I have a bunch of stuff I'd like to put on it, it's just been one thing after another. Slowly but surely life is getting back to normalcy again. Once again I'm enjoying it for a change. In any case, back to reality here ... Please someone who is going to the BOF volunteer as the official "scribe" and take good notes. Then write some BOF "Minutes" so the rest of the world can benefit from anything said at the BOF. Enjoy USENIX everyone and hope to see you all at the next one ... Take care, Lenny --- Lenny Tropiano Internet : lenny@risctakr.austin.ibm.com IBM V-Net : AUSVM8(TROPIANO) MaBell Net: 512-823-3008 Tie Line : T/L 793-3008