gc@cbnewsh.att.com (eugene.cristofor) (05/14/91)
UUNET & IOCCC BOF ================= Starting at 6:30pm, Rick Adams will discuss UUNET/Usenet: UUNET configuration, load history, load stats, future network directions, recent Usenet events and issues, etc. Starting at 7:45pm, Landon Curt Noll will discuss International Obfuscated C Code Contest IOCCC): overview, how the contest is judged, presentation of winning programs, 'Best of Show' program, etc. By tradition, the 4.xBSD BOF starts in the same room afterwards. -- Gene Cristofor AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ 07733 att!vax135!gc or gc@vax135.ATT.COM
heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) (05/14/91)
gc@cbnewsh.att.com (eugene.cristofor) writes: >Starting at 6:30pm, Rick Adams will discuss UUNET/Usenet: ... >Starting at 7:45pm, Landon Curt Noll will discuss International Sounds great! Those are being held *each* evening, right? :-) -- Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com Moderator: comp.newprod "Wrong is wrong, even when it helps you." Popeye
spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua) (05/15/91)
heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) writes: <gc@cbnewsh.att.com (eugene.cristofor) writes: <>Starting at 6:30pm, Rick Adams will discuss UUNET/Usenet: <... <>Starting at 7:45pm, Landon Curt Noll will discuss International <Sounds great! Those are being held *each* evening, right? :-) "Everybody" knows that the UUNET/BSD is never on the night of the Reception (Thursday) and that no "real" BOFs are on Tuesday or Friday. ->Spike -- The World - Public Access Unix - +1 617-739-9753 24hrs {3,12,24,96,192}00bps
bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (05/17/91)
These sound suspiciously more like presentations (with overhead projectors and microphones and prepared speakers) than BOFS (with very informal discussion between similarly-feathered birds). Why not just include them into the normal conference session schedule?
emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) (05/17/91)
If anyone is organizing a 2d archivist's bof, please let me know so that I can forward you details of what's going on at MSEN. I'm on the one-per-year usenix schedule for a while, sigh. (Kent? You going to be there?) The first one was reasonably well attended, drew some interesting discussion, and it would be nice to find someone to take on coordinating it for the summer usenix. -- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com "(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational and training software; " "High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 272"
kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) (05/21/91)
In article <EMV.91May16185027@poe.aa.ox.com> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes: > >If anyone is organizing a 2d archivist's bof, please let me know so >that I can forward you details of what's going on at MSEN. I'm on the >one-per-year usenix schedule for a while, sigh. (Kent? You going to >be there?) No sadly I will have to miss it as well... >The first one was reasonably well attended, drew some interesting >discussion, and it would be nice to find someone to take on >coordinating it for the summer usenix. It did not take much effort to have an enjoyable and interesting evening. Whoever does the coordination, could you please send me some email as well ? There are a few things that I would like passed along in my absence. Thanks. -Kent+ -- Kent Landfield INTERNET: kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM Sterling Software, IMD UUCP: uunet!sparky!kent Phone: (402) 291-8300 FAX: (402) 291-4362 Please send comp.sources.misc-related mail to kent@uunet.uu.net.
emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) (05/26/91)
In article <1991May21.022218.13168@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) writes: >If anyone is organizing a 2d archivist's bof, please let me know... It did not take much effort to have an enjoyable and interesting evening. Whoever does the coordination, could you please send me some email as well ? I've had half a dozen mail messages in response (generally positive to the idea), but no one to step forward to iron out the details. The charter of this bof is real simple: talk about matters regarding internet archives administration, to include but not be limited by - ftp-by-mail services, their past present and future; or "mail based archives servers are Evil and Rude;" hopefully someone from DEC and from Princeton will be around, as well as the Toronto-area folks who were worst affected. - cataloging and indexing efforts, including "archie", comp.archives, any other efforts going on; the likelihood of actual Federal funding for any or all of these endeavors; private enterprise and its role. - a discussion of the role of archive sites and archivists relative to that of formal academic journals; I'd like to hear word from the folks who run the Neuroprose archive at Ohio State on that one. - mechanics of running an archive site - logging ftpd's, caching and shadowing software, etc. The scope of the discussion matches the proposed usenet newsgroup 'comp.archives.admin'; for some reason that group already exists at this site :) so I've cross-posted there. What's needed is a time and place at Nashville, an overhead projector with foils or a whiteboard, someone to take copious quantities of notes to post to comp.archives.admin, and someone to step forward to take (minimal) responsibility to do it all. Have fun in Nashville! -- Edward Vielmetti, moderator, comp.archives, emv@msen.com "(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational and training software; " "High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 272"