verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) (02/23/90)
It looks like I am the person who is coordinating bring SLUG back to life. Most people seem to think that we should come back as a general Unix group (rather than Sun specific) to broaden our appeal. We are trying to involve more of the community. We are hoping to create a local group where professionals and enthusiasts can exchange experience, knowledge, etc. with one another. The primary thrust of the group will be education and cooperation between sites. There is a mailing list for information and discussion between members of CLUG. The mailing list is: clug@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu Requests like please add/remove me from the list should go to: clug-request@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There are currently plans for four initial projects: (1) Monthly meetings. Most meetings will be on a particular topic. The meetings will normal start with the group business, continue on to a presentation on the key topic. All meetings will be the first Monday of the month, between 7-9pm on the OSU campus, in Baker Systems room 120. Tentative plans for the first few speakers are: Mar Large Scale NFS Service Dr. Bruce Nelson, Auspex Apr Unix: Past, Present, Future Bob Fraik, NeXT May Improving Unix Security Steve Romig, OSU CIS June Choosing a Window System Bob Sutterfield, MorningStar July Co-Existence: Macs, PC, Unix Mark Verber, OSU Physics Aug Networking Karl Kleinpaste (2) Quarterly newsletter. The newsletter will summarize developments in the Unix community at large, and in Central Ohio in particular. We will have some regular columns, letters to the editor, and announcements. (3) Workshops and tutorials. The group will organize and cooperate tutorials that are of interest to the general Unix community. These tutorials with be taught by qualified personal. The tutorials will either be free, or offered at a low cost. Some of you may have attended some of our initial tutorials on the OSU campus when they were sponsored by the IRCC. Initial tutorials will include: Networking with TCP/IP Basic Unix System Administration (4) Provide a free "public" access Unix machine. This machine will have mail and netnews. It looks like Pinnacle Systems will be donating a Sun 3/180 with terminal lines and two disks. We already have a number of people who will admin the machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To get this project off the ground, we are asking people to step forward who can offer any of the following. *Name* We need a name. What do you like? Suggest a name, or vote for one of the names already suggested: calix Columbus Area Local Unix clu Columbus Local Unix clue Columbus Local Unix Environments clug Columbus Local Unix Group colug Central Ohio Local Unix Group crux Columbus Region Unix *Non-Profit Law* We hope to incorporation this group as a non-profit educational organization (along the lines of Usenix Associate) so we can receive tax-deducible donations. If you have experience with non-profit law, please contact me. *Money* We would be happy to take money from anyone who wants to add to our startup budget. Money will be used for supporting the public Unix machine and some startup expenses. *Writers* We would like the newsletter to be of the highest quality. We are looking for people who would be interested in writing articles or columns. We are thinking about columns on new products, people, networking, etc. It looks like the editor I had lined up has gotten too busy, so was are also looking for a person to manage the newsletter. *Coordinators* We are trying to set up at least one coordinator in each large organization (eg OCLC, OSU, Chem Abs, etc) that will help organize their own company people, make people aware of the local Unix group, and try and get people involved. A number of people have already volunteered to do this work. Anyone from one of these companies that is interested in helping: please contact the appropriate coordinator. Otherwise feel free to contact me. Teja Betz 860-7027 AT&T tab@cbusa.att.com Dave Burhans 764-6268 OCLC osu-cis!sppy00!dwb Bob Henkel 292-7352 OSU henkel@cis.ohio-state.edu Bob Kalal 292-4843 OSU kalal@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu Larry Virden 447-3600 x2487 ChemAbs chemabs!lwv27 lwv27@cas.bitnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheers, Mark Verber, Ohio State University, Physics Department verber@mps.ohio-state.edu (614) 292-8002