[comp.sys.dec] European X window User group Conference

celvin@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK (Chris Elvin) (08/17/90)

                EXUG Conference and Exhibition
                    X into the future
                    Guilford Surrey UK
                 24th-26th September 1990

The first residential conference of the European X user Group
will take place at Surrey University, Guilford UK on 24-26th September
1990.

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

Conference
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Speakers include:

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 --
a brand-new interactive resouce editing system.

Jim Fulton of NCD and formerly of the X Consortium --
implementing X for X terminals

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	morning
Conference	&	24 Sept Afternoon -- 26 Sept.
Exhibition	&	25--26 Sept.
BOF's		&	24,25 Sept evenings

Costs   (all costs subject to VAT at 15%)
=====

The exhibition is free and open to the public. Guilford is well served
by road and rail links and there are car parks at the University
We hope to provide a coach service from central London to the University;
more details as they become available.

Costs include the conference and accomodation Monday and Tuesday night,
Evening Meal on Monday, meals on Tuesday and Breakfast Wednesday.
Accomodation with Evening meal and breakfast for Sunday and/or Wednesday
night is available

There will be a conference dinner on Monday 24th September

Conference
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EXUG members 	250 pounds
non members	300 pounds

Tutorial
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100 pounds

Extras
------

Accomodation on Monday/Wednesday   30 pounds per night


For further information:

Tom Yeates
EXUG'90 Exhibition Coordinator
Digital Equipment Co Ltd
Hampshire House
Wade Road
Basingstoke
Hants UK
phone +44 256 843 333
fax +44 256 479 457

or
EXUG Secretary
185 High Street
Cottenham
Cambs
UK
phone +44 954 211 860
fax +44 954 211 244

or
Chris Elvin
Dept of Elec. Eng
University of Surrey
Guilford UK
phone +44 483 509 104
fax +44 483 34 139
email  C.Elvin@ee.surrey.ac.uk

--
Chris Elvin
C.Elvin@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK                    "Beware of low flying butterflies!"
Dept of Elec. Eng, University of Surrey,
Guildford, Surrey, GU2 5XH. England. PHONE: +44 483 509104  FAX: +44 483 34139