carolyn@usenix.ORG (Carolyn Carr) (08/10/90)
X -- INTO THE FUTURE European X User Group CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION 24 -- 26 September 1990 University of Surrey, Guildford, England Three-day Conference, Vendor Exhibition, and ``Connectathon''. Speakers include some of originators and principal architects of the X system: Jim Gettys of Digital -- has worked on X and Project Athena since 1984, played a major part in the design of X11: Keynote Speech. Paul Asente of Adobe -- designed and implemented the X toolkit: conducting a tutorial, and describing X Server extensions. Keith Packard of the MIT X Consortium: use of the X Selections mechanism. Chris Peterson of ICS and formerly of the X Consortium: editres -- a brand-new interactive resouce editing system. Tom Lestrange (the ``T'' in TWM) of Solbourne. Todd Newman of Digital -- worked on implementing the first X server. PLUS papers on X terminals, PEX, user's experiences using X for real applications, X development and tools, aids to porting and migrating non-X programs, graphics tools, etc, etc. TIMETABLE Tutorials 24 Sept. Conference 24--26 Sept. Exhibition 25--26 Sept. Connectathon 24 -- Sept BOF's 24,25 Sept EXUG'90 EXHIBITION A major Exhibition is being held in conjunction with the conference. This gives vendors the opportunity to show and sell their products and services, and allow users to keep up to date with the commercial market. For further information: Tom Yeates EXUG'90 Exhibition Coordinator phone +44 256 843 333 (DEC, Basingstoke) CONNECTATHON The connectathon is held in parallel to the main exhibition. The emphasis is on the networking and connectivity aspects of X. It demonstrates what can be achieved with X and how it can play an important role in providing a consistent environment across machines of many different types, sizes and power. FURTHER INFORMATION The Secretary EXUG 185 High St Cottenham Cambridge CB4 4RX England tel: +44 954 51727 email: exug@unipalm.co.uk