dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) (01/27/89)
I called the USENIX office to see about scheduling a unix-pc BOF but
apparently they have already starting to pack things up to head for San
Diego. The person who is doing the scheduling of the BOFs (Judy) has my
name and I am supposed to talk with her about it when I arrive. I will be
arriving late Sunday and they will probably have closed the desk by the time
I get there but I will try to get together with her first thing Monday. I
am going to try to schedule the BOF for either Tuesday night or Wednesday
night. My first preference is Tuesday because there is already a bunch of
stuff scheduled for Wednesday. If you have strong feelings one way or the
other about the choice of nights, send me e-mail right away or call the
hotel and either leave a message for me at the desk or leave a message for
me with the USENIX folks.
What I would like to do at the BOF is the following:
1. An informal panel discussion about some of the issues we all face. What
is the future of the 3b1? What software is available for the machine? What
are some of the security issues that we all should be addressing? What
would other people like to talk about?
2. If any of the more prominent members of our group (John Milton, Lenny
Tropiano, Mike Ditto, etc) are present they will be asked if they could tell
us about the status of the projects they are working on.
3. If by some miracle of circumstance any of the developers from ATT are at
the conference maybe they could be persuaded to give us some info on the
current set of fix disks (unofficially, of course).
4. If anyone wants to stand up and talk about something interesting they are
doing with their machine or some interesting software they have either
developed or have access to, they will certainly be welcome to do so.
One last thing, we are trying to make arrangements for a software exchange.
If anyone has a machine they can bring, and you have not been contacted
already, please call me at the hotel on Monday. If you have any software
that you think others might want, please bring it. Also bring blank disks.
I will have both source and binary distributions of sendmail available as
well as some other stuff such as RCS, *Berkeley Mail*, and whatever else I
have time to write out to disk before I leave.
If anybody has any other ideas for what we might do, feel free to let me
know. I have never tried to organize a BOF before so I am more than willing
to accept suggestions, especially if you've ever done something like this
before.
Hope to see as many of you as possible in San Diego. Bye for now.
--
David H. Brierley
Home: dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US {rayssd,xanth,lazlo,jclyde}!galaxia!dave
Work: dhb@rayssd.ray.com {sun,decuac,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!dhbscs@itivax.iti.org (Steve C. Simmons) (01/28/89)
In article <541@galaxia.Newport.RI.US> dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) writes: >I called the USENIX office to see about scheduling a unix-pc BOF but >apparently they have already starting to pack things up to head for San >Diego . . . going to try to schedule either Tuesday night or Wednesday night We have a volunteer to bring his PC! Kevin O'Gorman (kosman!kevin) is willing to drive in (4hrs) from Oxnard, bringing his 3B1. He has a tape drive as well. It's important that he know the date of the thing, but is willing to live with fairly short notice. I have his phone #, and will be contacting him from SD as soon as we know the date. -- Steve Simmons scs@vax3.iti.org Industrial Technology Institute Ann Arbor, MI. "Velveeta -- the Spam of Cheeses!" -- Uncle Bonsai
lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) (01/28/89)
In article <541@galaxia.Newport.RI.US> dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) writes: ... |> |>What I would like to do at the BOF is the following: |> |>1. An informal panel discussion about some of the issues we all face. What |>is the future of the 3b1? What software is available for the machine? What |>are some of the security issues that we all should be addressing? What |>would other people like to talk about? |> I hope that you can post a summary of what transpired over at the San Diego USENIX when you get back, for the benefit of those who couldn't be there this time. Hope to see you all at the Spring/Summer USENIX, for those who go to that one ... |>2. If any of the more prominent members of our group (John Milton, Lenny |>Tropiano, Mike Ditto, etc) are present they will be asked if they could tell |>us about the status of the projects they are working on. |> I just wanted to mention that I have to give my good friend, Gil Kloepfer (gil@limbic) a good portion of the credit for our current project (the 2nd hard drive plans), he was most of the brains for this one :-) I know I have had my share of stuff before though ... Thanks for including me :-) We're looking forward to hearing how you made out!! -Lenny -- Lenny Tropiano ICUS Software Systems [w] +1 (516) 582-5525 lenny@icus.islp.ny.us Telex; 154232428 ICUS [h] +1 (516) 968-8576 {talcott,decuac,boulder,hombre,pacbell,sbcs}!icus!lenny attmail!icus!lenny ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752