std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (02/07/87)
This is the latest in a series of similar mod.std.unix articles.
This time, I'm cross-posting it to comp.org.usenix to see what happens.
Corrections and additions to this article are solicited.
Access information is given in this article for the following:
user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, EUUG, AUUG, DECUS
newsletters: ;login:, CommUNIXations, EUUG, AUUGN
magazines: UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD
UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T.
USENIX is "The Professional and Technical UNIX(R) Association."
USENIX Association
P.O. Box 7
El Cerrito, CA 94530
415-528-8649
{ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office
USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers,
as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences:
Jun 8-12 1987 Hyatt Regency, Phoenix, AZ
Feb 10-12 1988 Registry Hotel, Dallas, TX, concurrent with Uniforum
Jun 21-24 1988 Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Feb 1- 3 1989 Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, CA
Jun 13-16 1989 Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
Jun 11-15 1990 Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
They also sponsor workshops, such as
Apr 9-10 1987 Palace Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
Large Installation System Administrator's Workshop
Oct 8- 9 1987 Cambridge Marriott, Cambridge, MA
4th USENIX Computer Graphics Workshop
Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at
the door and by mail later.
USENIX publishes ";login: The USENIX Association Newsletter"
bimonthly. It is sent free of charge to all their members and
includes technical papers. There is a USENET newsgroup,
comp.org.usenix, for discussion of USENIX-related matters.
They also publish an edition of the 4.3BSD manuals, and they
occasionally sponsor experiments, such as methods of improving
the USENET and UUCP networks, that are of interest and use to
the membership. They also distribute tapes of contributed software
and are pursuing expanding that activity.
There is a USENIX Institutional Representative on the IEEE P1003
Portable Operating System for Computer Environments Committee.
That representative also moderates the USENET newsgroup mod.std.unix,
which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
For more details, see the posting in mod.std.unix about Access
to UNIX-Related Standards.
/usr/group is "the commercially oriented UNIX system users organization."
/usr/group
4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Santa Clara, California 95054
408-986-8840
The annual UniForum Conferences are sponsored by /usr/group and feature
a large trade show, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.
Feb 10-12 1988 Infomart, Dallas, TX, concurrent with USENIX
March 1989 San Francisco
Winter 1990 Washington, D.C.
They have also started a regional show:
August 1988 Washington, D.C.
/usr/group publishes a bimonthly newsletter called CommUNIXations,
which includes much current industry news.
They also publish the UNIX Products Directory, which offers
information on UNIX-related products.
/usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
having sponsored the /usr/group Standard, providing an Institutional
Representative to the IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer
Environments Committee, and sponsoring the /usr/group Working Groups
on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. For more details, see the
posting about Access to UNIX-Related Standards.
EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group.
EUUG secretariat
Owles Hall
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9PL
England
seismo!mcvax!euug
They have a newsletter and hold two conferences a year.
AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems users Group.
AUUG
P.O. Box 366
Kensington
N.S.W. 2033
Australia
seismo!munnari!auug
auug@munnari.oz.au
Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225
AUUG holds biennial conferences, usually of 2 days each:
the next one will probably be in late February 1986.
They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined
to be every 2 months.
There are similar groups in other parts of the world, such as Japan and
Korea. If such a group wishes to be included in later versions of this
access list, they should please send me information.
Also, DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society,
has a UNIX SIG (Special Interest Group) which participates
in its meetings, which are held twice a year. The next
one will be in Nashville, Tennessee, 27 April - 1 May 1987.
DECUS U.S. Chapter
219 Boston Post Road, BP02
Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752-1850
617-480-3418
See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus.
The two main general circulation magazines about the UNIX system are
UNIX REVIEW UNIX/WORLD
Miller Freeman Publications Co. Tech Valley Publishing
500 Howard Street 444 Castro St.
San Francisco, CA 94105 Mountain View, CA 94041
415-397-1881 415-940-1500
Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 51std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (03/11/87)
This is the latest in a series of similar mod.std.unix articles.
Corrections and additions to this article are solicited.
The newsgroup mod.std.unix will very soon be known as comp.std.unix.
Access information is given in this article for the following:
user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, EUUG, AUUG, DECUS
newsletters: ;login:, CommUNIXations, EUUG, AUUGN
magazines: UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD
UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T.
USENIX is "The Professional and Technical UNIX(R) Association."
USENIX Association
P.O. Box 7
El Cerrito, CA 94530
415-528-8649
{ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office
USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers,
as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences:
Jun 8-12 1987 Hyatt Regency, Phoenix, AZ
Feb 10-12 1988 Registry Hotel, Dallas, TX, concurrent with Uniforum
Jun 21-24 1988 Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Feb 1- 3 1989 Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, CA
Jun 13-16 1989 Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
Jun 11-15 1990 Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
They also sponsor workshops, such as
Apr 9-10 1987 Palace Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
Large Installation System Administrator's Workshop
Oct 8- 9 1987 Cambridge Marriott, Cambridge, MA
4th USENIX Computer Graphics Workshop
Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at
the door and by mail later.
USENIX publishes ";login: The USENIX Association Newsletter"
bimonthly. It is sent free of charge to all their members and
includes technical papers. There is a USENET newsgroup,
comp.org.usenix, for discussion of USENIX-related matters.
They also publish an edition of the 4.3BSD manuals, and they
occasionally sponsor experiments, such as methods of improving
the USENET and UUCP networks, that are of interest and use to
the membership. They also distribute tapes of contributed software
and are pursuing expanding that activity.
There is a USENIX Institutional Representative on the IEEE P1003
Portable Operating System for Computer Environments Committee.
That representative also moderates the USENET newsgroup mod.std.unix,
which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
For more details, see the posting in mod.std.unix about Access
to UNIX-Related Standards.
/usr/group is "the commercially oriented UNIX system users organization."
/usr/group
4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Santa Clara, California 95054
408-986-8840
The annual UniForum Conferences are sponsored by /usr/group and feature
a large trade show, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.
Feb 10-12 1988 Infomart, Dallas, TX, concurrent with USENIX
March 1989 San Francisco
Winter 1990 Washington, D.C.
They have also started a regional show:
August 1988 Washington, D.C.
/usr/group publishes a bimonthly newsletter called CommUNIXations,
which includes much current industry news.
They also publish the UNIX Products Directory, which offers
information on UNIX-related products.
/usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
having sponsored the /usr/group Standard, providing an Institutional
Representative to the IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer
Environments Committee, and sponsoring the /usr/group Working Groups
on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. For more details, see the
posting about Access to UNIX-Related Standards.
EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group.
EUUG secretariat
Owles Hall
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9PL
England
seismo!mcvax!euug
They have a newsletter and hold two conferences a year.
AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems users Group.
AUUG
P.O. Box 366
Kensington
N.S.W. 2033
Australia
seismo!munnari!auug
auug@munnari.oz.au
Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225
AUUG holds biennial conferences, usually of 2 days each:
the next one will probably be in late February 1986.
They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined
to be every 2 months.
There are similar groups in other parts of the world, such as Japan and
Korea. If such a group wishes to be included in later versions of this
access list, they should please send me information.
Also, DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society,
has a UNIX SIG (Special Interest Group) which participates
in its meetings, which are held twice a year. The next
one will be in Nashville, Tennessee, 27 April - 1 May 1987.
DECUS U.S. Chapter
219 Boston Post Road, BP02
Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752-1850
617-480-3418
See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus.
The two main general circulation magazines about the UNIX system are
UNIX REVIEW UNIX/WORLD
Miller Freeman Publications Co. Tech Valley Publishing
500 Howard Street 444 Castro St.
San Francisco, CA 94105 Mountain View, CA 94041
415-397-1881 415-940-1500
Volume-Number: Volume 10, Number 20std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (03/14/88)
This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles,
intended to give summary information about UNIX User groups
and publications; to be accurate, but not exhaustive.
I'm cross-posting it to comp.org.usenix and comp.unix.questions
because there might be interest there. There is also a lengthy article
on access to UNIX-related standards, but that's only in comp.std.unix.
Corrections and additions to this article are solicited.
Recent additions: ADUS, AMIX. IX Magazine is now
Multi-User Computing Magazine.
Access information is given in this article for the following:
user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, EUUG, AUUG, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, AMIX,
DECUS UNIX SIG, Sun User Group, Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society
newsletters: ;login:, /usr/digest, EUUGN, AUUGN, NUZ
journal: Computing Systems
magazines: CommUNIXations, UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD,
Multi-User Computing Magazine, UNIX Systems, UNIX Magazine
Telephone numbers are given in international format, i.e., +n at
the beginning for the country code, e.g., +44 is England, +81 Japan,
+82 Korea, +61 Australia, +64 New Zealand, and +1 is U.S.A. or Canada.
UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T.
USENIX is ``The Professional and Technical UNIX(R) Association.''
USENIX Association
P.O. Box 2299
Berkeley, CA 94710
U.S.A.
+1-415-528-8649
{uunet,ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office
office@usenix.org
USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers,
as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences:
Jun 20-24 1988 Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Jan 31-Feb 3 1989 Town & Country Inn, San Diego, CA
Jun 12-16 1989 Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington, DC
Jun 11-15 1990 Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
Jan 22-25 1991 Dallas
Jun 10-14 1991 Opryland, Nashville
They also sponsor workshops, such as
May 12-13 1988 Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
Fifth Workshop on Real-Time Software and Operating Systems
IEEE Computer Society and USENIX Association
Aug 29-30 1988 UNIX Security, Portland, OR
Sep 26-27 1988 UNIX & Supercomputing, Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 17-20 1988 C++ Conference (tentative), Denver, CO
Nov 17-18 1988 Large Installation System Administration II, Monterey,CA
Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at
the door and by mail later.
USENIX publishes ``;login: The USENIX Association Newsletter''
bimonthly. It is sent free of charge to all their members and
includes technical papers. There is a USENET newsgroup,
comp.org.usenix, for discussion of USENIX-related matters.
In 1988, USENIX will start publishing a new refereed quarterly
technical journal, ``Computing Systems: The Journal of the USENIX
Association,'' in cooperation with University of California Press.
They also publish an edition of the 4.3BSD manuals, and they
occasionally sponsor experiments, such as methods of improving the
USENET and UUCP networks (e.g., uunet), that are of interest and use to
the membership. They distribute tapes of contributed software and are
pursuing expanding that activity.
There is a USENIX Institutional Representative on the IEEE P1003
Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments Committee.
That representative also moderates the USENET newsgroup comp.std.unix,
which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
For more details, see the posting in comp.std.unix about Access
to UNIX-Related Standards.
/usr/group is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the promotion
of products and services based on the UNIX operating system.
/usr/group
4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A.
tel: +1-408-986-8840
fax: +1-408-986-1645
The annual UniForum Conference and Trade Show is sponsored by /usr/group
and features vendor exhibits, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.
Feb 28-Mar 3 1989 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
Jan 22-25 1991 Infomart, Dallas, TX
Jan 21-24 1992 Moscone Center, San Francisco CA (tentative)
They also sponsor a regional show, UniForum D.C.:
Aug 2-4 1988 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Proceedings for all conferences are available at the shows and later
by mail.
/usr/group publishes ``CommUNIXations,'' a member magazine that
features articles by industry leaders and observers, technical issues,
standards coverage, and new product announcements.
/usr/group also publishes the ``UNIX Products Directory,'' which lists
products and services developed specifically for the UNIX operating system.
``/usr/digest'' is also published by /usr/group. This newsletter covers
product announcements and industry projections, and is sent biweekly
to General members of /usr/group and to non-member subscribers.
/usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
having sponsored the ``/usr/group 1984 Standard,'' providing an Institutional
Representative to the IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer
Environments Committee, and sponsoring the /usr/group Technical Committee
on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. They have recently produced
an executive summary, ``Your Guide to POSIX,'' and a technical overview
``POSIX Explored,'' and funded production of a draft of a ``Rationale and
Notes'' appendix for IEEE 1003.1.
EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group.
EUUG secretariat
Owles Hall
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9PL
England
Telephone +44 763 73039
Telefax +44 763 73255
uunet!mcvax!inset!euug
euug@inset.co.uk
They have a newsletter, EUUGN, and hold two conferences a year:
11-15 April 1988, London, England
3-7 October 1988, Lisbon, Portugal
AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems Users Group.
AUUG
P.O. Box 366
Kensington
N.S.W. 2033
Australia
uunet!munnari!auug
auug@munnari.oz.au
Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225
AUUG holds at least one conference a year, usually in the spring
(August or September). The next one will be in Melbourne on 13-15
September 1988, will be the first three day meeting, will have a larger
equipment exhibition than any before, and will be professionally
organized for the first time.
They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined to be every 2 months.
The New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group, Inc. (NZUSUGI) has an annual meeting
and publishes a newsletter, ``NUZ.''
New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group
P.O. Box 585
Hamilton
New Zealand
+64-9-454000
The next and fifth annual meeting is the New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group
(NZUSUGI) 1988 Conference, June 9-11 1988, in Wellington, New Zealand.
If you wish to present a paper, acceptance of which entitles you to a free
conference registration, please contact the local speakers organiser,
Dr Dick Cooper, ADATA, PO Box 2555, Christchurch, New Zealand,
dick%cantuar@comp.vuw.ac.nz or ...uunet!vuwcomp!cantuar!dick
If you would just like to attend, please respond to Ray Brownrigg, including
a postal address for the delivery of further information as it becomes
available. Registration forms are expected to be available in February.
UUCP: {utai!calgary,uunet}!vuwcomp!dsiramd!ray
ACSnet: ray@dsiramd.nz[@munnari]
Ray Brownrigg
Applied Maths Div, DSIR
PO Box 1335
Wellington
New Zealand
The Korean UNIX User Group (KUUG) has a software distribution service
and a newsletter.
Korean UNIX User Group
ETRI
P.O. Box 8
Daedug Science Town
Chungnam 300-32
Republic of Korea
+82-042-822-4455
The Japan UNIX Society has two meetings a year, and a newsletter.
Japan UNIX Society
#505 Towa-Hanzomon Corp. Bldg.
2-12 Hayabusa-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
Japan
+81-03-234-2611
AMIX - the Israeli UNIX user group, is a S.I.G. of the Israeli Processing
Association (IPA). AMIX has a yearly conference (next one on 4-6 July 1988)
and a yearly workshop (last one was in November).
AMIX, c/o IPA
P.O. Box 919
Ramat-Gan
Israel, 52109
Tel: 00972-3-715770,715772
amix@bimacs.bitnet
amix@bimacs.biu.ac.il
There are similar groups in other parts of the world. If such a group
wishes to be included in later versions of this access list, they
should please send me information.
There is a partial list of national organizations in the November/December
1987 CommUNIXations.
DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society,
has a UNIX SIG (Special Interest Group) that participates
in its general meetings, which are held twice a year.
DECUS U.S. Chapter
219 Boston Post Road, BP02
Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752-1850
U.S.A.
+1-617-480-3418
See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus.
The Sun User Group (SUG) is an international organization that promotes
communication among Sun users, OEMs, third party vendors, and Sun
Microsystems, Inc. SUG sponsors conferences, collects and distributes
software, produces the README newsletter and T-shirts, sponsors local
user groups, and communicates members' problems to Sun employees and
management.
Sun Microsystems User Group, Inc.
2550 Garcia Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
U.S.A.
+1 415 960 1300
users@sun.com
sun!users
They have not set a date/location for the 1988 conference yet, but are
actively looking for a hotel (with good pricing and lots of room).
They've narrowed it down to several locations - Miami/Tampa Florida,
Houston/Dallas Texas, and New Orleans LA. The date will probably be
very early December, 1988.
ADUS is the Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society:
Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society
c/o Andrea Woloski, ADUS Coordinator
Apollo Computer Inc.
330 Billerica Rd.
Chelmsford, MA 01824
+1-617-256-6600, x4448
The main general circulation (more than 10,000 copies per issue) magazines
about the UNIX system are
UNIX REVIEW UNIX/WORLD
Miller Freeman Publications Co. Tech Valley Publishing
500 Howard Street 444 Castro St.
San Francisco, CA 94105 Mountain View, CA 94041
U.S.A. U.S.A.
+1-415-397-1881 +1-415-940-1500
Multi-User Computing magazine UNIX Systems
Storyplace Ltd. Eaglehead Publishing Ltd.
42 Colebrook Row Maybury Road
London N1 8AF Woking, Surrey GU21 5HX
England England
+44 1 704 9351 +44 48 622 7661
UNIX Magazine
Jouji Ohkubo
c/o ASCII Corp.
jou-o@ascii.junet
+81-3-486-4523
fax: +81-3-486-4520
telex: 242-6875 ASCIIJ
In addition:
Computing Systems CommUNIXations
USENIX Association /usr/group
P.O. Box 2299 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Berkeley, CA 94710 Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A. U.S.A.
+1-415-528-8649 +1-408-986-8840
Some of the above information about magazines was taken from the
November/December 1987 issue of CommUNIXations, which also lists
some smaller-circulation magazines and newsletters. The following
information about bookstores was taken from the same issue. In the
interests of space, I have arbitrarily limited the selection listed
here to those bookstores or suppliers specifically dedicated to
computer books, and not part of other organizations.
Computer Literacy Bookshop UNIX Book Service
2590 No. First St. 35 Bermuda Terrace
San Jose, CA 95131 Cambridge, CB4 3LD
U.S.A. England
+1-408-4350-1118 +44-223-313273
Cucumber Bookshop Jim Joyce's UNIX Book Store
5611 Kraft Ave. 47 Potomac St.
Rockville, MD 20852 San Francisco, CA 94117
U.S.A. U.S.A.
+1-301-881-2722 +1-415-626-7581
Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 21std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (04/18/88)
This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles,
intended to give summary information about UNIX User groups
and publications; to be accurate, but not exhaustive.
I'm cross-posting it to comp.org.usenix and comp.unix.questions
because there might be interest there.
There are two related articles, posted at the same time as this one,
and with subjects ``Calendar of UNIX-related Events'' and ``Access to
UNIX-Related Standards.'' The latter is posted only to comp.std.unix.
Corrections and additions to this article are solicited. I keep track
of the conferences, groups, and publications that I attend, am a member
of, or subscribe to. All others (the majority of the listings) I derive
either from listings elsewhere, or from contributions by readers.
In particular, the meeting schedules and descriptions of most of the
groups are provided by their members. If a group doesn't have a
meeting schedule listed, it's because nobody has sent me one. This is
a low-budget operation: I publish what I have on hand when the time
comes (approximately monthly).
Recent additions: AT&T Technical Journal, Byte, The C Users Journal, Unique.
Access information is given in this article for the following:
user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, EUUG, AUUG, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, AMIX,
DECUS UNIX SIG, Sun User Group, Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society
newsletters: ;login:, /usr/digest, EUUGN, AUUGN, NUZ
journal: Computing Systems
magazines: CommUNIXations, UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD,
Multi-User Computing Magazine, UNIX Systems, UNIX Magazine
Telephone numbers are given in international format, i.e., +n at
the beginning for the country code, e.g., +44 is England, +81 Japan,
+82 Korea, +61 Australia, +64 New Zealand, and +1 is U.S.A. or Canada.
UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T.
USENIX is ``The Professional and Technical UNIX(R) Association.''
USENIX Association
P.O. Box 2299
Berkeley, CA 94710
U.S.A.
+1-415-528-8649
{uunet,ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office
office@usenix.org
USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers,
as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences:
Jun 20-24 1988 Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Jan 31-Feb 3 1989 Town & Country Inn, San Diego, CA
Jun 12-16 1989 Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington, DC
Jun 11-15 1990 Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
Jan 22-25 1991 Dallas, TX
Jun 10-14 1991 Opryland, Nashville, TN
They also sponsor workshops, such as
May 12-13 1988 Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
Fifth Workshop on Real-Time Software and Operating Systems
IEEE Computer Society and USENIX Association
Aug 29-30 1988 UNIX Security, Portland, OR
Sep 26-27 1988 UNIX & Supercomputing, Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 17-20 1988 C++ Conference (tentative), Denver, CO
Nov 17-18 1988 Large Installation System Administration II, Monterey,CA
Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at
the door and by mail later.
USENIX publishes ``;login: The USENIX Association Newsletter''
bimonthly. It is sent free of charge to all their members and
includes technical papers. There is a USENET newsgroup,
comp.org.usenix, for discussion of USENIX-related matters.
In 1988, USENIX started publishing a new refereed quarterly
technical journal, ``Computing Systems: The Journal of the USENIX
Association,'' in cooperation with University of California Press.
They also publish an edition of the 4.3BSD manuals, and they
occasionally sponsor experiments, such as methods of improving the
USENET and UUCP networks (e.g., uunet), that are of interest and use to
the membership. They distribute tapes of contributed software and are
pursuing expanding that activity.
There is a USENIX Institutional Representative on the IEEE P1003
Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments Committee.
That representative also moderates the USENET newsgroup comp.std.unix,
which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
For more details, see the posting in comp.std.unix, ``Access to
UNIX-Related Standards.''
/usr/group is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the promotion
of products and services based on the UNIX operating system.
/usr/group
4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A.
tel: +1-408-986-8840
fax: +1-408-986-1645
The annual UniForum Conference and Trade Show is sponsored by /usr/group
and features vendor exhibits, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.
Feb 28-Mar 3 1989 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
Jan 22-25 1991 Infomart, Dallas, TX
Jan 21-24 1992 Moscone Center, San Francisco CA (tentative)
They also sponsor a regional show, UniForum D.C.:
Aug 2-4 1988 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Proceedings for all conferences are available at the shows and later
by mail.
/usr/group publishes ``CommUNIXations,'' a member magazine that
features articles by industry leaders and observers, technical issues,
standards coverage, and new product announcements.
/usr/group also publishes the ``UNIX Products Directory,'' which lists
products and services developed specifically for the UNIX operating system.
``/usr/digest'' is also published by /usr/group. This newsletter covers
product announcements and industry projections, and is sent biweekly
to General members of /usr/group and to non-member subscribers.
/usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
having sponsored the ``/usr/group 1984 Standard,'' providing an Institutional
Representative to the IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer
Environments Committee, and sponsoring the /usr/group Technical Committee
on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. They have recently produced
an executive summary, ``Your Guide to POSIX,'' and a technical overview
``POSIX Explored,'' and funded production of a draft of a ``Rationale and
Notes'' appendix for IEEE 1003.1.
EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group, which is currently
celebrating its tenth anniversary. EUUG is closely coordinated with
national groups in Europe, and with the European UNIX network, EUnet.
EUUG secretariat
Owles Hall
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9PL
England
Telephone +44 763 73039
Telefax +44 763 73255
uunet!mcvax!inset!euug
euug@inset.co.uk
They have a newsletter, EUUGN (a previous version of this article
appeared in the latest one), and hold two conferences a year:
3-7 October 1988, Lisbon, Portugal
April 1989, Brussels, Belgium
AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems Users Group.
AUUG
P.O. Box 366
Kensington
N.S.W. 2033
Australia
uunet!munnari!auug
auug@munnari.oz.au
Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225
AUUG holds at least one conference a year, usually in the spring
(August or September). The next one will be in Melbourne on 13-15
September 1988, will be the first three day meeting, will have a larger
equipment exhibition than any before, and will be professionally
organized for the first time.
They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined to be every 2 months.
The New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group, Inc. (NZUSUGI) has an annual meeting
and publishes a newsletter, ``NUZ.''
New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group
P.O. Box 585
Hamilton
New Zealand
+64-9-454000
The next and fifth annual meeting is the New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group
(NZUSUGI) 1988 Conference, June 9-11 1988, in Wellington, New Zealand.
If you wish to present a paper, acceptance of which entitles you to a free
conference registration, please contact the local speakers organiser,
Dr Dick Cooper, ADATA, PO Box 2555, Christchurch, New Zealand,
dick%cantuar@comp.vuw.ac.nz or ...uunet!vuwcomp!cantuar!dick
If you would just like to attend, please respond to Ray Brownrigg, including
a postal address for the delivery of further information as it becomes
available. Registration forms are expected to be available in February.
UUCP: {utai!calgary,uunet}!vuwcomp!dsiramd!ray
ACSnet: ray@dsiramd.nz[@munnari]
Ray Brownrigg
Applied Maths Div, DSIR
PO Box 1335
Wellington
New Zealand
The Korean UNIX User Group (KUUG) has a software distribution service
and a newsletter.
Korean UNIX User Group
ETRI
P.O. Box 8
Daedug Science Town
Chungnam 300-32
Republic of Korea
+82-042-822-4455
The Japan UNIX Society has two meetings a year, and a newsletter.
Japan UNIX Society
#505 Towa-Hanzomon Corp. Bldg.
2-12 Hayabusa-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
Japan
+81-03-234-2611
AMIX - the Israeli UNIX user group, is a S.I.G. of the Israeli Processing
Association (IPA). AMIX has a yearly conference (next one on 4-6 July 1988)
and a yearly workshop (last one was in November).
AMIX, c/o IPA
P.O. Box 919
Ramat-Gan
Israel, 52109
Tel: 00972-3-715770,715772
amix@bimacs.bitnet
amix@bimacs.biu.ac.il
There are similar groups in other parts of the world. If such a group
wishes to be included in later versions of this access list, they
should please send me information.
There is a partial list of national organizations in the November/December
1987 CommUNIXations.
DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society,
has a UNIX SIG (Special Interest Group) that participates
in its general meetings, which are held twice a year.
DECUS U.S. Chapter
219 Boston Post Road, BP02
Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752-1850
U.S.A.
+1-617-480-3418
The next two DECUS Symposia are:
May 16-20, 1988 Cincinnati, Ohio
Oct 17-21, 1988 Anaheim, California
See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus.
The Sun User Group (SUG) is an international organization that promotes
communication among Sun users, OEMs, third party vendors, and Sun
Microsystems, Inc. SUG sponsors conferences, collects and distributes
software, produces the README newsletter and T-shirts, sponsors local
user groups, and communicates members' problems to Sun employees and
management.
Sun Microsystems User Group, Inc.
2550 Garcia Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
U.S.A.
+1 415 960 1300
users@sun.com
sun!users
They have not set a date/location for the 1988 conference yet, but are
actively looking for a hotel (with good pricing and lots of room).
They've narrowed it down to several locations - Miami/Tampa Florida,
Houston/Dallas Texas, and New Orleans LA. The date will probably be
very early December, 1988.
ADUS is the Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society:
Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society
c/o Andrea Woloski, ADUS Coordinator
Apollo Computer Inc.
330 Billerica Rd.
Chelmsford, MA 01824
+1-617-256-6600, x4448
The main general circulation (more than 10,000 copies per issue) magazines
specifically about the UNIX system are:
UNIX REVIEW UNIX/WORLD
Miller Freeman Publications Co. Tech Valley Publishing
500 Howard Street 444 Castro St.
San Francisco, CA 94105 Mountain View, CA 94041
U.S.A. U.S.A.
monthly monthly
+1-415-397-1881 +1-415-940-1500
Multi-User Computing magazine UNIX Systems
Storyplace Ltd. Eaglehead Publishing Ltd.
42 Colebrook Row Maybury Road
London N1 8AF Woking, Surrey GU21 5HX
England England
+44 1 704 9351 +44 48 622 7661
UNIX Magazine
Jouji Ohkubo
c/o ASCII Corp.
jou-o@ascii.junet
+81-3-486-4523
fax: +81-3-486-4520
telex: 242-6875 ASCIIJ
Some of the above information about magazines was taken from the
November/December 1987 issue of CommUNIXations, which also lists
some smaller-circulation magazines and newsletters.
In addition, there is the Journal of the USENIX Association and
the /usr/group member magazine:
Computing Systems CommUNIXations
USENIX Association /usr/group
P.O. Box 2299 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Berkeley, CA 94710 Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A. U.S.A.
quarterly bimonthly
+1-415-528-8649 +1-408-986-8840
Finally, Dominic Dunlop <domo@sphinx.co.uk> has pointed out several
publications that frequently include articles about the UNIX system or
the C language. I've listed them below; the comments after each entry
are his. I have excluded listings of magazines about specific hardware.
AT&T Technical Journal
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Circulation Dept.
Room 1K-424
101 J F Kennedy Parkway
Short Hills, NJ 07078
Bimonthly
$40/yr (US); $50/yr (overseas)
+1 201 564-2582
While few issues are devoted to UNIX,
most turn out to mention its applications.
Byte
McGraw-Hill Inc.
Phoenix Mill Lane
Peterborough, NH 03458
Monthly
$22/yr (US); $25/yr(Mex,Can); $37/yr (surface); $69/yr (air,Europe)
+1 603 924-9281
Concentrates mainly on personal computers,
but covers low end of UNIX market in some depth.
The C Users Journal
``A service of the C Users Group.''
R&D Publications Inc
PO Box 97
McPherson, KS 67460
Eight issues per year
$20/yr (US/Mex/Can); $30/yr (overseas)
+1 316 241-1065
Mainly DOS-oriented; some UNIX.
Unique
``The UNIX System Information Source.''
Infopro Systems
PO Box 220
Rescue, CA 95672
Monthly
$79/yr (US,overseas); $99/yr (air)
+1 916 677-5870
High-quality industry newsletter.
Emphasis on marketing implications of technical developments.
The following information about bookstores was taken from the
November/December 1987 issue of CommUNIXations. In the interests of
space, I have arbitrarily limited the selection listed here to those
bookstores or suppliers specifically dedicated to computer books, and
not part of other organizations.
Computer Literacy Bookshop UNIX Book Service
2590 No. First St. 35 Bermuda Terrace
San Jose, CA 95131 Cambridge, CB4 3LD
U.S.A. England
+1-408-4350-1118 +44-223-313273
Cucumber Bookshop Jim Joyce's UNIX Book Store
5611 Kraft Ave. 47 Potomac St.
Rockville, MD 20852 San Francisco, CA 94117
U.S.A. U.S.A.
+1-301-881-2722 +1-415-626-7581
Volume-Number: Volume 14, Number 3std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (05/18/88)
This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles,
intended to give summary information about UNIX User groups
and publications; to be accurate, but not exhaustive.
I'm cross-posting it to comp.org.usenix and comp.unix.questions
because there might be interest there.
There are two related articles, posted at the same time as this one,
and with subjects ``Calendar of UNIX-related Events'' and ``Access to
UNIX-Related Standards.'' The latter is posted only to comp.std.unix.
Corrections and additions to this article are solicited. I keep track
of the conferences, groups, and publications that I attend, am a member
of, or subscribe to. All others (the majority of the listings) I derive
either from listings elsewhere, or from contributions by readers.
In particular, the meeting schedules and descriptions of most of the
groups are provided by their members. If a group doesn't have a
meeting schedule listed, it's because nobody has sent me one. This is
a low-budget operation: I publish what I have on hand when the time
comes (approximately monthly).
Recent additions: AT&T Technical Journal, Byte, The C Users Journal, Unique.
Access information is given in this article for the following:
user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, EUUG, AUUG, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, AMIX,
DECUS UNIX SIG, Sun User Group, Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society
newsletters: ;login:, /usr/digest, EUUGN, AUUGN, NUZ
journal: Computing Systems
magazines: CommUNIXations, UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD,
Multi-User Computing Magazine, UNIX Systems, UNIX Magazine
Telephone numbers are given in international format, i.e., +n at
the beginning for the country code, e.g., +44 is England, +81 Japan,
+82 Korea, +61 Australia, +64 New Zealand, and +1 is U.S.A. or Canada.
UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T.
USENIX is ``The Professional and Technical UNIX(R) Association.''
USENIX Association
P.O. Box 2299
Berkeley, CA 94710
U.S.A.
+1-415-528-8649
{uunet,ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office
office@usenix.org
USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers,
as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences:
Jun 20-24 1988 Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Jan 31-Feb 3 1989 Town & Country Inn, San Diego, CA
Jun 12-16 1989 Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington, DC
Jun 11-15 1990 Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
Jan 22-25 1991 Dallas, TX
Jun 10-14 1991 Opryland, Nashville, TN
They also sponsor workshops, such as
May 12-13 1988 Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
Fifth Workshop on Real-Time Software and Operating Systems
IEEE Computer Society and USENIX Association
Aug 29-30 1988 UNIX Security, Portland, OR
Sep 26-27 1988 UNIX & Supercomputing, Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 17-20 1988 C++ Conference (tentative), Denver, CO
Nov 17-18 1988 Large Installation System Administration II, Monterey,CA
Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at
the door and by mail later.
USENIX publishes ``;login: The USENIX Association Newsletter''
bimonthly. It is sent free of charge to all their members and
includes technical papers. There is a USENET newsgroup,
comp.org.usenix, for discussion of USENIX-related matters.
In 1988, USENIX started publishing a new refereed quarterly
technical journal, ``Computing Systems: The Journal of the USENIX
Association,'' in cooperation with University of California Press.
They also publish an edition of the 4.3BSD manuals, and they
occasionally sponsor experiments, such as methods of improving the
USENET and UUCP networks (e.g., uunet), that are of interest and use to
the membership. They distribute tapes of contributed software and are
pursuing expanding that activity.
There is a USENIX Institutional Representative on the IEEE P1003
Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments Committee.
That representative also moderates the USENET newsgroup comp.std.unix,
which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
For more details, see the posting in comp.std.unix, ``Access to
UNIX-Related Standards.''
/usr/group is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the promotion
of products and services based on the UNIX operating system.
/usr/group
4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A.
tel: +1-408-986-8840
fax: +1-408-986-1645
The annual UniForum Conference and Trade Show is sponsored by /usr/group
and features vendor exhibits, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.
Feb 28-Mar 3 1989 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
Jan 22-25 1991 Infomart, Dallas, TX
Jan 21-24 1992 Moscone Center, San Francisco CA (tentative)
They also sponsor a regional show, UniForum D.C.:
Aug 2-4 1988 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Proceedings for all conferences are available at the shows and later
by mail.
/usr/group publishes ``CommUNIXations,'' a member magazine that
features articles by industry leaders and observers, technical issues,
standards coverage, and new product announcements.
/usr/group also publishes the ``UNIX Products Directory,'' which lists
products and services developed specifically for the UNIX operating system.
``/usr/digest'' is also published by /usr/group. This newsletter covers
product announcements and industry projections, and is sent biweekly
to General members of /usr/group and to non-member subscribers.
/usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
having sponsored the ``/usr/group 1984 Standard,'' providing an Institutional
Representative to the IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer
Environments Committee, and sponsoring the /usr/group Technical Committee
on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. They have recently produced
an executive summary, ``Your Guide to POSIX,'' and a technical overview
``POSIX Explored,'' and funded production of a draft of a ``Rationale and
Notes'' appendix for IEEE 1003.1.
EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group, which is currently
celebrating its tenth anniversary. EUUG is closely coordinated with
national groups in Europe, and with the European UNIX network, EUnet.
EUUG secretariat
Owles Hall
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9PL
England
Telephone +44 763 73039
Telefax +44 763 73255
uunet!mcvax!inset!euug
euug@inset.co.uk
They have a newsletter, EUUGN (a previous version of this article
appeared in the latest one), and hold two conferences a year:
3-7 October 1988, Lisbon, Portugal
April 1989, Brussels, Belgium
AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems Users Group.
AUUG
P.O. Box 366
Kensington
N.S.W. 2033
Australia
uunet!munnari!auug
auug@munnari.oz.au
Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225
AUUG holds at least one conference a year, usually in the spring
(August or September). The next one will be in Melbourne on 13-15
September 1988, will be the first three day meeting, will have a larger
equipment exhibition than any before, and will be professionally
organized for the first time.
They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined to be every 2 months.
The New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group, Inc. (NZUSUGI) has an annual meeting
and publishes a newsletter, ``NUZ.''
New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group
P.O. Box 585
Hamilton
New Zealand
+64-9-454000
The next and fifth annual meeting is the New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group
(NZUSUGI) 1988 Conference, June 9-11 1988, in Wellington, New Zealand.
If you wish to present a paper, acceptance of which entitles you to a free
conference registration, please contact the local speakers organiser,
Dr Dick Cooper, ADATA, PO Box 2555, Christchurch, New Zealand,
dick%cantuar@comp.vuw.ac.nz or ...uunet!vuwcomp!cantuar!dick
If you would just like to attend, please respond to Ray Brownrigg, including
a postal address for the delivery of further information as it becomes
available. Registration forms are expected to be available in February.
UUCP: {utai!calgary,uunet}!vuwcomp!dsiramd!ray
ACSnet: ray@dsiramd.nz[@munnari]
Ray Brownrigg
Applied Maths Div, DSIR
PO Box 1335
Wellington
New Zealand
The Korean UNIX User Group (KUUG) has a software distribution service
and a newsletter.
Korean UNIX User Group
ETRI
P.O. Box 8
Daedug Science Town
Chungnam 300-32
Republic of Korea
+82-042-822-4455
The Japan UNIX Society has two meetings a year, and a newsletter.
Japan UNIX Society
#505 Towa-Hanzomon Corp. Bldg.
2-12 Hayabusa-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
Japan
+81-03-234-2611
AMIX - the Israeli UNIX user group, is a S.I.G. of the Israeli Processing
Association (IPA). AMIX has a yearly conference (next one on 4-6 July 1988)
and a yearly workshop (last one was in November).
AMIX, c/o IPA
P.O. Box 919
Ramat-Gan
Israel, 52109
Tel: 00972-3-715770,715772
amix@bimacs.bitnet
amix@bimacs.biu.ac.il
There are similar groups in other parts of the world. If such a group
wishes to be included in later versions of this access list, they
should please send me information.
There is a partial list of national organizations in the November/December
1987 CommUNIXations.
DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society,
has a UNIX SIG (Special Interest Group) that participates
in its general meetings, which are held twice a year.
DECUS U.S. Chapter
219 Boston Post Road, BP02
Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752-1850
U.S.A.
+1-617-480-3418
The next two DECUS Symposia are:
May 16-20, 1988 Cincinnati, Ohio
Oct 17-21, 1988 Anaheim, California
See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus.
The Sun User Group (SUG) is an international organization that promotes
communication among Sun users, OEMs, third party vendors, and Sun
Microsystems, Inc. SUG sponsors conferences, collects and distributes
software, produces the README newsletter and T-shirts, sponsors local
user groups, and communicates members' problems to Sun employees and
management.
Sun Microsystems User Group, Inc.
2550 Garcia Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
U.S.A.
+1 415 960 1300
users@sun.com
sun!users
They have not set a date/location for the 1988 conference yet, but are
actively looking for a hotel (with good pricing and lots of room).
They've narrowed it down to several locations - Miami/Tampa Florida,
Houston/Dallas Texas, and New Orleans LA. The date will probably be
very early December, 1988.
ADUS is the Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society:
Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society
c/o Andrea Woloski, ADUS Coordinator
Apollo Computer Inc.
330 Billerica Rd.
Chelmsford, MA 01824
+1-617-256-6600, x4448
The main general circulation (more than 10,000 copies per issue) magazines
specifically about the UNIX system are:
UNIX REVIEW UNIX/WORLD
Miller Freeman Publications Co. Tech Valley Publishing
500 Howard Street 444 Castro St.
San Francisco, CA 94105 Mountain View, CA 94041
U.S.A. U.S.A.
monthly monthly
+1-415-397-1881 +1-415-940-1500
Multi-User Computing magazine UNIX Systems
Storyplace Ltd. Eaglehead Publishing Ltd.
42 Colebrook Row Maybury Road
London N1 8AF Woking, Surrey GU21 5HX
England England
+44 1 704 9351 +44 48 622 7661
UNIX Magazine
Jouji Ohkubo
c/o ASCII Corp.
jou-o@ascii.junet
+81-3-486-4523
fax: +81-3-486-4520
telex: 242-6875 ASCIIJ
Some of the above information about magazines was taken from the
November/December 1987 issue of CommUNIXations, which also lists
some smaller-circulation magazines and newsletters.
In addition, there is the Journal of the USENIX Association and
the /usr/group member magazine:
Computing Systems CommUNIXations
USENIX Association /usr/group
P.O. Box 2299 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Berkeley, CA 94710 Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A. U.S.A.
quarterly bimonthly
+1-415-528-8649 +1-408-986-8840
Finally, Dominic Dunlop <domo@sphinx.co.uk> has pointed out several
publications that frequently include articles about the UNIX system or
the C language. I've listed them below; the comments after each entry
are his. I have excluded listings of magazines about specific hardware.
AT&T Technical Journal
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Circulation Dept.
Room 1K-424
101 J F Kennedy Parkway
Short Hills, NJ 07078
Bimonthly
$40/yr (US); $50/yr (overseas)
+1 201 564-2582
While few issues are devoted to UNIX,
most turn out to mention its applications.
Byte
McGraw-Hill Inc.
Phoenix Mill Lane
Peterborough, NH 03458
Monthly
$22/yr (US); $25/yr(Mex,Can); $37/yr (surface); $69/yr (air,Europe)
+1 603 924-9281
Concentrates mainly on personal computers,
but covers low end of UNIX market in some depth.
The C Users Journal
``A service of the C Users Group.''
R&D Publications Inc
PO Box 97
McPherson, KS 67460
Eight issues per year
$20/yr (US/Mex/Can); $30/yr (overseas)
+1 316 241-1065
Mainly DOS-oriented; some UNIX.
Unique
``The UNIX System Information Source.''
Infopro Systems
PO Box 220
Rescue, CA 95672
Monthly
$79/yr (US,overseas); $99/yr (air)
+1 916 677-5870
High-quality industry newsletter.
Emphasis on marketing implications of technical developments.
The following information about bookstores was taken from the
November/December 1987 issue of CommUNIXations. In the interests of
space, I have arbitrarily limited the selection listed here to those
bookstores or suppliers specifically dedicated to computer books, and
not part of other organizations.
Computer Literacy Bookshop UNIX Book Service
2590 No. First St. 35 Bermuda Terrace
San Jose, CA 95131 Cambridge, CB4 3LD
U.S.A. England
+1-408-4350-1118 +44-223-313273
Cucumber Bookshop Jim Joyce's UNIX Book Store
5611 Kraft Ave. 47 Potomac St.
Rockville, MD 20852 San Francisco, CA 94117
U.S.A. U.S.A.
+1-301-881-2722 +1-415-626-7581
Volume-Number: Volume 14, Number 15std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (06/28/88)
This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles,
intended to give summary information about UNIX User groups
and publications; to be accurate, but not exhaustive.
I'm cross-posting it to comp.org.usenix and comp.unix.questions
because there might be interest there.
There are two related articles, posted at the same time as this one,
and with subjects ``Calendar of UNIX-related Events'' and ``Access to
UNIX-Related Standards.'' The latter is posted only to comp.std.unix.
Corrections and additions to this article are solicited. I keep track
of the conferences, groups, and publications that I attend, am a member
of, or subscribe to. All others (the majority of the listings) I derive
either from listings elsewhere, or from contributions by readers.
In particular, the meeting schedules and descriptions of most of the
groups are provided by their members. If a group doesn't have a
meeting schedule listed, it's because nobody has sent me one. This is
a low-budget operation: I publish what I have on hand when the time
comes (approximately monthly).
Recent additions: None.
Access information is given in this article for the following:
user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, EUUG, AUUG, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, AMIX,
DECUS UNIX SIG, Sun User Group, Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society,
AT&T and Sun V.4 Software Developer Conferences,
Open Software Foundation.
newsletters: ;login:, /usr/digest, EUUGN, AUUGN, NUZ
journal: Computing Systems
magazines: CommUNIXations, UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD,
Multi-User Computing Magazine, UNIX Systems, UNIX Magazine
Telephone numbers are given in international format, i.e., +n at
the beginning for the country code, e.g., +44 is England, +81 Japan,
+82 Korea, +61 Australia, +64 New Zealand, and +1 is U.S.A. or Canada.
UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T.
USENIX is ``The Professional and Technical UNIX(R) Association.''
USENIX Association
P.O. Box 2299
Berkeley, CA 94710
U.S.A.
+1-415-528-8649
{uunet,ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office
office@usenix.org
USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers,
as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences:
Jan 31-Feb 3 1989 Town & Country Inn, San Diego, CA
Jun 12-16 1989 Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington, DC
Jun 11-15 1990 Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
Jan 22-25 1991 Dallas, TX
Jun 10-14 1991 Opryland, Nashville, TN
They also sponsor workshops, such as
Aug 29-30 1988 UNIX Security, Portland, OR
Sep 26-27 1988 UNIX & Supercomputing, Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 17-20 1988 C++ Conference (tentative), Denver, CO
Nov 17-18 1988 Large Installation System Administration II, Monterey,CA
Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at
the door and by mail later.
USENIX publishes ``;login: The USENIX Association Newsletter''
bimonthly. It is sent free of charge to all their members and
includes technical papers. There is a USENET newsgroup,
comp.org.usenix, for discussion of USENIX-related matters.
In 1988, USENIX started publishing a new refereed quarterly
technical journal, ``Computing Systems: The Journal of the USENIX
Association,'' in cooperation with University of California Press.
They also publish an edition of the 4.3BSD manuals, and they
occasionally sponsor experiments, such as methods of improving the
USENET and UUCP networks (e.g., uunet), that are of interest and use to
the membership. They distribute tapes of contributed software and are
pursuing expanding that activity.
There is a USENIX Institutional Representative on the IEEE P1003
Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments Committee.
That representative also moderates the USENET newsgroup comp.std.unix,
which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
For more details, see the posting in comp.std.unix, ``Access to
UNIX-Related Standards.''
/usr/group is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the promotion
of products and services based on the UNIX operating system.
/usr/group
4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A.
tel: +1-408-986-8840
fax: +1-408-986-1645
The annual UniForum Conference and Trade Show is sponsored by /usr/group
and features vendor exhibits, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.
Feb 28-Mar 3 1989 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
Jan 22-25 1991 Infomart, Dallas, TX
Jan 21-24 1992 Moscone Center, San Francisco CA (tentative)
They also sponsor a regional show, UniForum D.C.:
Aug 2-4 1988 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Proceedings for all conferences are available at the shows and later
by mail.
/usr/group publishes ``CommUNIXations,'' a member magazine that
features articles by industry leaders and observers, technical issues,
standards coverage, and new product announcements.
/usr/group also publishes the ``UNIX Products Directory,'' which lists
products and services developed specifically for the UNIX operating system.
``/usr/digest'' is also published by /usr/group. This newsletter covers
product announcements and industry projections, and is sent biweekly
to General members of /usr/group and to non-member subscribers.
/usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
having sponsored the ``/usr/group 1984 Standard,'' providing an Institutional
Representative to the IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer
Environments Committee, and sponsoring the /usr/group Technical Committee
on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. They have recently produced
an executive summary, ``Your Guide to POSIX,'' and a technical overview
``POSIX Explored,'' and funded production of a draft of a ``Rationale and
Notes'' appendix for IEEE 1003.1.
EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group, which is currently
celebrating its tenth anniversary. EUUG is closely coordinated with
national groups in Europe, and with the European UNIX network, EUnet.
EUUG secretariat
Owles Hall
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9PL
England
Telephone +44 763 73039
Telefax +44 763 73255
uunet!mcvax!inset!euug
euug@inset.co.uk
They have a newsletter, EUUGN (a previous version of this article
appeared in the latest one), and hold two conferences a year:
3-7 October 1988, Lisbon, Portugal
April 1989, Brussels, Belgium
AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems Users Group.
AUUG
P.O. Box 366
Kensington
N.S.W. 2033
Australia
uunet!munnari!auug
auug@munnari.oz.au
Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225
AUUG holds at least one conference a year, usually in the spring
(August or September). The next one will be in Melbourne on 13-15
September 1988, will be the first three day meeting, will have a larger
equipment exhibition than any before, and will be professionally
organized for the first time.
They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined to be every 2 months.
The New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group, Inc. (NZUSUGI) has an annual meeting
and publishes a newsletter, ``NUZ.''
New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group
P.O. Box 585
Hamilton
New Zealand
+64-9-454000
The next and fifth annual meeting is the New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group
(NZUSUGI) 1988 Conference, June 9-11 1988, in Wellington, New Zealand.
If you wish to present a paper, acceptance of which entitles you to a free
conference registration, please contact the local speakers organiser,
Dr Dick Cooper, ADATA, PO Box 2555, Christchurch, New Zealand,
dick%cantuar@comp.vuw.ac.nz or ...uunet!vuwcomp!cantuar!dick
If you would just like to attend, please respond to Ray Brownrigg, including
a postal address for the delivery of further information as it becomes
available. Registration forms are expected to be available in February.
UUCP: {utai!calgary,uunet}!vuwcomp!dsiramd!ray
ACSnet: ray@dsiramd.nz[@munnari]
Ray Brownrigg
Applied Maths Div, DSIR
PO Box 1335
Wellington
New Zealand
The Korean UNIX User Group (KUUG) has a software distribution service
and a newsletter.
Korean UNIX User Group
ETRI
P.O. Box 8
Daedug Science Town
Chungnam 300-32
Republic of Korea
+82-042-822-4455
The Japan UNIX Society has two meetings a year, and a newsletter.
Japan UNIX Society (JUS)
#505 Towa-Hanzomon Corp. Bldg.
2-12 Hayabusa-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
Japan
+81-03-234-2611
1988 Jul 6-8 UNIX Symposium Tokyo, Japan
1988 Nov 10-11 UNIX Symposium Osaka, Japan
AMIX - the Israeli UNIX user group, is a S.I.G. of the Israeli Processing
Association (IPA). AMIX has a yearly conference (next one on 4-6 July 1988)
and a yearly workshop (last one was in November).
AMIX, c/o IPA
P.O. Box 919
Ramat-Gan
Israel, 52109
Tel: 00972-3-715770,715772
amix@bimacs.bitnet
amix@bimacs.biu.ac.il
There are similar groups in other parts of the world. If such a group
wishes to be included in later versions of this access list, they
should please send me information.
There is a partial list of national organizations in the November/December
1987 CommUNIXations.
DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society,
has a UNIX SIG (Special Interest Group) that participates
in its general meetings, which are held twice a year.
DECUS U.S. Chapter
219 Boston Post Road, BP02
Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752-1850
U.S.A.
+1-617-480-3418
The next two DECUS Symposia are:
Oct 17-21, 1988 Anaheim, California
May 8-12, 1989 Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 6-10, 1989 Anaheim, California
May 7-11, 1990 New Orleans, Louisiana
See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus.
The Sun User Group (SUG) is an international organization that promotes
communication among Sun users, OEMs, third party vendors, and Sun
Microsystems, Inc. SUG sponsors conferences, collects and distributes
software, produces the README newsletter and T-shirts, sponsors local
user groups, and communicates members' problems to Sun employees and
management.
Sun Microsystems User Group, Inc.
2550 Garcia Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
U.S.A.
+1 415 960 1300
users@sun.com
sun!users
They have not set a date/location for the 1988 conference yet, but are
actively looking for a hotel (with good pricing and lots of room).
They've narrowed it down to several locations - Miami/Tampa Florida,
Houston/Dallas Texas, and New Orleans LA. The date will probably be
very early December, 1988.
ADUS is the Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society:
Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society
c/o Andrea Woloski, ADUS Coordinator
Apollo Computer Inc.
330 Billerica Rd.
Chelmsford, MA 01824
+1-617-256-6600, x4448
AT&T and Sun Microsystems are holding a series of
Software Developer Conferences on System V Release 4.0,
related to the Sun/AT&T Applications Binary Interface (ABI).
1988 Sep 14-16 New York, NY
1988 Sep 27-29 Los Angeles, CA
1988 Oct 11-13 Tokyo, Japan
1988 Oct 25-27 London, England
1988 Nov 9-11 Boston, MA
1988 Nov 29-Dec 1 Chicago, IL
1988 Dec 13-15 Washington, DC
1988 TBA Toronto, ON
For more information, call 1-800-387-6100.
The Open Software Foundation (OSF) is a vendor group formed 17 May 1988
by Apollo, Bull, DEC, HP, IBM, Nixdorff, and Siemens. Excerpts from
a press release of that date:
The Open Software Foundation (OSF) will develop a software environment,
including application interfaces, advanced system extensions, and a new
operating system, using X/Open(tm) and POSIX* specifications as the
starting point. ... OSF membership is available to computer hardware
and software suppliers, educational institutions, and government
agencies around the world. ... The foundation has a management
organization, staff, and a funding comittment in excess of $90 million
to begin immediate operations. Its initial development will be based
on technologies offered by the members and its own research, to be
carried out worldwide.
A research institute is being created to fund research for the
advancement of applications portability, interoperability standards,
and other advanced technologies for future foundation use. An
academic advisory panel will provide guidance and input to the
institute. The Institute's research will be conducted worldwide.
For more information, contact:
Deborah Siegel
Cohn & Wolfe
+1 212-951-8300
or
Open Software Foundation
20 Ballard Way
Lawrence, MA 01843
The main general circulation (more than 10,000 copies per issue) magazines
specifically about the UNIX system are:
UNIX REVIEW UNIX/WORLD
Miller Freeman Publications Co. Tech Valley Publishing
500 Howard Street 444 Castro St.
San Francisco, CA 94105 Mountain View, CA 94041
U.S.A. U.S.A.
monthly monthly
+1-415-397-1881 +1-415-940-1500
Multi-User Computing magazine UNIX Systems
Storyplace Ltd. Eaglehead Publishing Ltd.
42 Colebrook Row Maybury Road
London N1 8AF Woking, Surrey GU21 5HX
England England
+44 1 704 9351 +44 48 622 7661
UNIX Magazine
Jouji Ohkubo
c/o ASCII Corp.
jou-o@ascii.junet
+81-3-486-4523
fax: +81-3-486-4520
telex: 242-6875 ASCIIJ
Some of the above information about magazines was taken from the
November/December 1987 issue of CommUNIXations, which also lists
some smaller-circulation magazines and newsletters.
In addition, there is the Journal of the USENIX Association and
the /usr/group member magazine:
Computing Systems CommUNIXations
USENIX Association /usr/group
P.O. Box 2299 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Berkeley, CA 94710 Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A. U.S.A.
quarterly bimonthly
+1-415-528-8649 +1-408-986-8840
Finally, Dominic Dunlop <domo@sphinx.co.uk> has pointed out several
publications that frequently include articles about the UNIX system or
the C language. I've listed them below; the comments after each entry
are his. I have excluded listings of magazines about specific hardware.
AT&T Technical Journal
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Circulation Dept.
Room 1K-424
101 J F Kennedy Parkway
Short Hills, NJ 07078
Bimonthly
$40/yr (US); $50/yr (overseas)
+1 201 564-2582
While few issues are devoted to UNIX,
most turn out to mention its applications.
Byte
McGraw-Hill Inc.
Phoenix Mill Lane
Peterborough, NH 03458
Monthly
$22/yr (US); $25/yr(Mex,Can); $37/yr (surface); $69/yr (air,Europe)
+1 603 924-9281
Concentrates mainly on personal computers,
but covers low end of UNIX market in some depth.
The C Users Journal
``A service of the C Users Group.''
R&D Publications Inc
PO Box 97
McPherson, KS 67460
Eight issues per year
$20/yr (US/Mex/Can); $30/yr (overseas)
+1 316 241-1065
Mainly DOS-oriented; some UNIX.
Unique
``The UNIX System Information Source.''
Infopro Systems
PO Box 220
Rescue, CA 95672
Monthly
$79/yr (US,overseas); $99/yr (air)
+1 916 677-5870
High-quality industry newsletter.
Emphasis on marketing implications of technical developments.
The following information about bookstores was taken from the
November/December 1987 issue of CommUNIXations. In the interests of
space, I have arbitrarily limited the selection listed here to those
bookstores or suppliers specifically dedicated to computer books, and
not part of other organizations.
Computer Literacy Bookshop UNIX Book Service
2590 No. First St. 35 Bermuda Terrace
San Jose, CA 95131 Cambridge, CB4 3LD
U.S.A. England
+1-408-4350-1118 +44-223-313273
Cucumber Bookshop Jim Joyce's UNIX Book Store
5611 Kraft Ave. 47 Potomac St.
Rockville, MD 20852 San Francisco, CA 94117
U.S.A. U.S.A.
+1-301-881-2722 +1-415-626-7581
Volume-Number: Volume 14, Number 24std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (07/24/88)
From: std-unix@uunet.UU.NET
This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles,
intended to give summary information about UNIX User groups
and publications; to be accurate, but not exhaustive.
I'm cross-posting it to comp.org.usenix and comp.unix.questions
because there might be interest there.
There are two related articles, posted at the same time as this one,
and with subjects ``Calendar of UNIX-related Events'' and ``Access to
UNIX-Related Standards.'' The latter is posted only to comp.std.unix.
Corrections and additions to this article are solicited. I keep track
of the conferences, groups, and publications that I attend, am a member
of, or subscribe to. All others (the majority of the listings) I derive
either from listings elsewhere, or from contributions by readers.
In particular, the meeting schedules and descriptions of most of the
groups are provided by their members. If a group doesn't have a
meeting schedule listed, it's because nobody has sent me one. This is
a low-budget operation: I publish what I have on hand when the time
comes (approximately monthly).
Recent additions: Sun User Group date and place. OSF update.
Access information is given in this article for the following:
user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, EUUG, AUUG, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, AMIX,
DECUS UNIX SIG, Sun User Group (SUG),
Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society (ADUS),
AT&T and Sun V.4 Software Developer Conferences,
Open Software Foundation (OSF).
newsletters: ;login:, /usr/digest, EUUGN, AUUGN, NUZ
journal: Computing Systems
magazines: CommUNIXations, UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD,
Multi-User Computing Magazine, UNIX Systems, UNIX Magazine
Telephone numbers are given in international format, i.e., +n at
the beginning for the country code, e.g., +44 is England, +81 Japan,
+82 Korea, +61 Australia, +64 New Zealand, and +1 is U.S.A. or Canada.
UNIX is a Registered Trademark of AT&T.
USENIX is ``The Professional and Technical UNIX(R) Association.''
USENIX Association
P.O. Box 2299
Berkeley, CA 94710
U.S.A.
+1-415-528-8649
{uunet,ucbvax,decvax}!usenix!office
office@usenix.org
USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers,
as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences:
Jan 31-Feb 3 1989 Town & Country Inn, San Diego, CA
Jun 12-16 1989 Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington, DC
Jun 11-15 1990 Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
Jan 22-25 1991 Dallas, TX
Jun 10-14 1991 Opryland, Nashville, TN
They also sponsor workshops, such as
Aug 29-30 1988 UNIX Security, Portland, OR
Sep 26-27 1988 UNIX & Supercomputing, Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 17-20 1988 C++ Conference, Denver, CO
Nov 17-18 1988 Large Installation System Administration II, Monterey,CA
Apr 1989 Software Management, New Orleans, LA
Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at
the door and by mail later.
USENIX publishes ``;login: The USENIX Association Newsletter''
bimonthly. It is sent free of charge to all their members and
includes technical papers. There is a USENET newsgroup,
comp.org.usenix, for discussion of USENIX-related matters.
In 1988, USENIX started publishing a new refereed quarterly
technical journal, ``Computing Systems: The Journal of the USENIX
Association,'' in cooperation with University of California Press.
They also publish an edition of the 4.3BSD manuals and distribute the
2.10BSD software distribution. They coordinate a software exchange for
appropriately licensed members. They occasionally sponsor experiments,
such as methods of improving the USENET and UUCP networks (e.g., UUNET),
that are of interest and use to the membership.
There is a USENIX Institutional Representative on the IEEE P1003
Portable Operating System Interface for Computer Environments Committee.
That representative also moderates the USENET newsgroup comp.std.unix,
which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
There is also a USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee following several
standards bodies. For more details, see the posting in comp.std.unix,
``Access to UNIX-Related Standards.''
/usr/group is a non-profit trade association dedicated to the promotion
of products and services based on the UNIX operating system.
/usr/group
4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A.
tel: +1-408-986-8840
fax: +1-408-986-1645
The annual UniForum Conference and Trade Show is sponsored by /usr/group
and features vendor exhibits, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.
Feb 28-Mar 3 1989 Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
Jan 22-25 1991 Infomart, Dallas, TX
Jan 21-24 1992 Moscone Center, San Francisco CA (tentative)
They also sponsor a regional show, UniForum D.C.:
Aug 2-4 1988 Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Proceedings for all conferences are available at the shows and later
by mail.
/usr/group publishes ``CommUNIXations,'' a member magazine that
features articles by industry leaders and observers, technical issues,
standards coverage, and new product announcements.
/usr/group also publishes the ``UNIX Products Directory,'' which lists
products and services developed specifically for the UNIX operating system.
``/usr/digest'' is also published by /usr/group. This newsletter covers
product announcements and industry projections, and is sent biweekly
to General members of /usr/group and to non-member subscribers.
/usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
having sponsored the ``/usr/group 1984 Standard,'' providing an Institutional
Representative to the IEEE P1003 Portable Operating System for Computer
Environments Committee, and sponsoring the /usr/group Technical Committee
on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. They have recently produced
an executive summary, ``Your Guide to POSIX,'' and a technical overview
``POSIX Explored,'' and funded production of a draft of a ``Rationale and
Notes'' appendix for IEEE 1003.1.
EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group, which is currently
celebrating its tenth anniversary. EUUG is closely coordinated with
national groups in Europe, and with the European UNIX network, EUnet.
EUUG secretariat
Owles Hall
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9PL
England
Telephone +44 763 73039
Telefax +44 763 73255
uunet!mcvax!inset!euug
euug@inset.co.uk
They have a newsletter, EUUGN (a previous version of this article
appeared in the latest one), and hold two conferences a year:
3-7 October 1988, Lisbon, Portugal
April 1989, Brussels, Belgium
AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems Users Group.
AUUG
P.O. Box 366
Kensington
N.S.W. 2033
Australia
uunet!munnari!auug
auug@munnari.oz.au
Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225
AUUG holds at least one conference a year, usually in the spring
(August or September). The next one will be in Melbourne on 13-15
September 1988, will be the first three day meeting, will have a larger
equipment exhibition than any before, and will be professionally
organized for the first time.
They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined to be every 2 months.
The New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group, Inc. (NZUSUGI) has an annual meeting
and publishes a newsletter, ``NUZ.''
New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group
P.O. Box 585
Hamilton
New Zealand
+64-9-454000
If you wish to present a paper, acceptance of which entitles you to a free
conference registration, please contact the local speakers organiser,
Dr Dick Cooper, ADATA, PO Box 2555, Christchurch, New Zealand,
dick%cantuar@comp.vuw.ac.nz or ...uunet!vuwcomp!cantuar!dick
If you would just like to attend, please respond to Ray Brownrigg, including
a postal address for the delivery of further information as it becomes
available. Registration forms are expected to be available in February.
UUCP: {utai!calgary,uunet}!vuwcomp!dsiramd!ray
ACSnet: ray@dsiramd.nz[@munnari]
Ray Brownrigg
Applied Maths Div, DSIR
PO Box 1335
Wellington
New Zealand
The Korean UNIX User Group (KUUG) has a software distribution service
and a newsletter.
Korean UNIX User Group
ETRI
P.O. Box 8
Daedug Science Town
Chungnam 300-32
Republic of Korea
+82-042-822-4455
The Japan UNIX Society has two meetings a year, and a newsletter.
Japan UNIX Society (JUS)
#505 Towa-Hanzomon Corp. Bldg.
2-12 Hayabusa-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
Japan
+81-03-234-2611
1988 Nov 10-11 UNIX Symposium Osaka, Japan
AMIX - the Israeli UNIX user group, is a S.I.G. of the Israeli Processing
Association (IPA). AMIX has a yearly conference (next one on 4-6 July 1988)
and a yearly workshop (last one was in November).
AMIX, c/o IPA
P.O. Box 919
Ramat-Gan
Israel, 52109
Tel: 00972-3-715770,715772
amix@bimacs.bitnet
amix@bimacs.biu.ac.il
There are similar groups in other parts of the world. If such a group
wishes to be included in later versions of this access list, they
should please send me information.
There is a partial list of national organizations in the November/December
1987 CommUNIXations.
DECUS, the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society,
has a UNIX SIG (Special Interest Group) that participates
in its general meetings, which are held twice a year.
DECUS U.S. Chapter
219 Boston Post Road, BP02
Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752-1850
U.S.A.
+1-617-480-3418
The next DECUS Symposia are:
Oct 17-21, 1988 Anaheim, California
May 8-12, 1989 Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 6-10, 1989 Anaheim, California
May 7-11, 1990 New Orleans, Louisiana
See also the USENET newsgroup comp.org.decus.
The Sun User Group (SUG) is an international organization that promotes
communication among Sun users, OEMs, third party vendors, and Sun
Microsystems, Inc. SUG sponsors conferences, collects and distributes
software, produces the README newsletter and T-shirts, sponsors local
user groups, and communicates members' problems to Sun employees and
management.
Sun Microsystems User Group, Inc.
2550 Garcia Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
U.S.A.
+1 415 960 1300
users@sun.com
sun!users
Their next annual conference is:
1988 Dec 5-7 Fontainebleau Hilton, Miami Beach, Florida
ADUS is the Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society:
Apollo DOMAIN Users' Society
c/o Andrea Woloski, ADUS Coordinator
Apollo Computer Inc.
330 Billerica Rd.
Chelmsford, MA 01824
+1-617-256-6600, x4448
AT&T and Sun Microsystems are holding a series of
Software Developer Conferences on System V Release 4.0,
related to the Sun/AT&T Applications Binary Interface (ABI).
1988 Sep 14-16 New York, NY
1988 Sep 27-29 Los Angeles, CA
1988 Oct 11-13 Tokyo, Japan
1988 Oct 25-27 London, England
1988 Nov 9-11 Boston, MA
1988 Nov 29-Dec 1 Chicago, IL
1988 Dec 13-15 Washington, DC
1988 TBA Toronto, ON
For more information, call 1-800-387-6100.
The Open Software Foundation (OSF) is a vendor group formed 17 May 1988
by Apollo, Bull, DEC, HP, IBM, Nixdorff, and Siemens, and later joined
by Philips. Excerpts from a press release of that date:
The Open Software Foundation (OSF) will develop a software environment,
including application interfaces, advanced system extensions, and a new
operating system, using X/Open(tm) and POSIX* specifications as the
starting point. ... OSF membership is available to computer hardware
and software suppliers, educational institutions, and government
agencies around the world. ... The foundation has a management
organization, staff, and a funding comittment in excess of $90 million
to begin immediate operations. Its initial development will be based
on technologies offered by the members and its own research, to be
carried out worldwide.
A research institute is being created to fund research for the
advancement of applications portability, interoperability standards,
and other advanced technologies for future foundation use. An
academic advisory panel will provide guidance and input to the
institute. The Institute's research will be conducted worldwide.
For more information, contact:
Deborah Siegel
Cohn & Wolfe
+1-212-951-8300
or
+1-508-683-6803
Larry Lytle or Gary McCormack
Open Software Foundation
20 Ballard Way
Lawrence, MA 01843
The main general circulation (more than 10,000 copies per issue) magazines
specifically about the UNIX system are:
UNIX REVIEW UNIX/WORLD
Miller Freeman Publications Co. Tech Valley Publishing
500 Howard Street 444 Castro St.
San Francisco, CA 94105 Mountain View, CA 94041
U.S.A. U.S.A.
monthly monthly
+1-415-397-1881 +1-415-940-1500
Multi-User Computing magazine UNIX Systems
Storyplace Ltd. Eaglehead Publishing Ltd.
42 Colebrook Row Maybury Road
London N1 8AF Woking, Surrey GU21 5HX
England England
+44 1 704 9351 +44 48 622 7661
UNIX Magazine
Jouji Ohkubo
c/o ASCII Corp.
jou-o@ascii.junet
+81-3-486-4523
fax: +81-3-486-4520
telex: 242-6875 ASCIIJ
Some of the above information about magazines was taken from the
November/December 1987 issue of CommUNIXations, which also lists
some smaller-circulation magazines and newsletters.
In addition, there is the Journal of the USENIX Association and
the /usr/group member magazine:
Computing Systems CommUNIXations
USENIX Association /usr/group
P.O. Box 2299 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Berkeley, CA 94710 Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A. U.S.A.
quarterly bimonthly
+1-415-528-8649 +1-408-986-8840
Finally, Dominic Dunlop <domo@sphinx.co.uk> has pointed out several
publications that frequently include articles about the UNIX system or
the C language. I've listed them below; the comments after each entry
are his. I have excluded listings of magazines about specific hardware.
AT&T Technical Journal
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Circulation Dept.
Room 1K-424
101 J F Kennedy Parkway
Short Hills, NJ 07078
Bimonthly
$40/yr (US); $50/yr (overseas)
+1 201 564-2582
While few issues are devoted to UNIX,
most turn out to mention its applications.
Byte
McGraw-Hill Inc.
Phoenix Mill Lane
Peterborough, NH 03458
Monthly
$22/yr (US); $25/yr(Mex,Can); $37/yr (surface); $69/yr (air,Europe)
+1 603 924-9281
Concentrates mainly on personal computers,
but covers low end of UNIX market in some depth.
The C Users Journal
``A service of the C Users Group.''
R&D Publications Inc
PO Box 97
McPherson, KS 67460
Eight issues per year
$20/yr (US/Mex/Can); $30/yr (overseas)
+1 316 241-1065
Mainly DOS-oriented; some UNIX.
Unique
``The UNIX System Information Source.''
Infopro Systems
PO Box 220
Rescue, CA 95672
Monthly
$79/yr (US,overseas); $99/yr (air)
+1 916 677-5870
High-quality industry newsletter.
Emphasis on marketing implications of technical developments.
The following information about bookstores was taken from the
November/December 1987 issue of CommUNIXations. In the interests of
space, I have arbitrarily limited the selection listed here to those
bookstores or suppliers specifically dedicated to computer books, and
not part of other organizations.
Computer Literacy Bookshop UNIX Book Service
2590 No. First St. 35 Bermuda Terrace
San Jose, CA 95131 Cambridge, CB4 3LD
U.S.A. England
+1-408-4350-1118 +44-223-313273
Cucumber Bookshop Jim Joyce's UNIX Book Store
5611 Kraft Ave. 47 Potomac St.
Rockville, MD 20852 San Francisco, CA 94117
U.S.A. U.S.A.
+1-301-881-2722 +1-415-626-7581
Volume-Number: Volume 14, Number 35jsq@longway.TIC.COM (John S. Quarterman) (07/26/88)
Peter Salus, USENIX Executive Director, reminds me that the dates I've been posting for winter USENIX Conferences are all off by one, because the USENIX Board of Directors decided several meetings ago to make them all five days long, i.e., Monday through Friday, not Tuesday through Friday. Also, there are conferences scheduled for 1992, and at least the month and general location is known for winter 1993. The correct dates for all scheduled USENIX Conferences (not including Workshops nor the C++ Conference) are these: 1989 Jan 30-Feb 3 Town & Country Inn, San Diego, CA 1989 Jun 12-16 Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD 1990 Jan 22-26 Washington, DC 1990 Jun 11-15 Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA 1991 Jan 21-25 Dallas, TX 1991 Jun 10-14 Opryland, Nashville, TN 1992 Jan 20-24 Hilton Square, San Francisco, CA 1992 Jun 8-12 Marriott, San Antonio, TX 1993 Jan somewhere in northeast of North America Also, the dates for the Spring 1989 EUUG are: 1989 Apr 10-14 Brussels, Belgium Volume-Number: Volume 14, Number 24