RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) (11/16/87)
Announcing the Second Annual X Window System Conference! The date is January 14-15, 1988. The place is MIT, in Cambridge, MA. The price is right (free). Meals will not be provided. Parking will be limited. The conference will likely run from 8:30am to 5:30pm the first day, and 9:00am to 5:00pm the second day. Details of exact location, etc., will be available later. Likely talks: Xtk toolkit BE2 toolkit validation suites how clients should cope with window managers Siemens RTL Tiled Window Manager X3D-PEX extension extension mechanisms X on a high performance workstation X/NeWS merge Possible Birds of a Feather sessions (BOFs): X and Lisp X and Ada X servers on diskless terminals Xtk toolkit BE2 toolkit window managers documentation european and internationalization concerns computer conferencing server implementors Possible tutorials: Programming with X11 A Novice's View of X Xtk toolkit To register for the conference, send mail to xconference@zermatt.lcs.mit.edu or as a last resort (*please* use the net if at all possible) Bob Scheifler Laboratory for Computer Science 545 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 You *must* include, for *each* person, the name of the person, the name of the organization s/he works for, a postal address and phone number, and a list of the BOFs s/he would like to attend (ranked by desirability). Interest in attending specific tutorials, if any, must also be indicated. Requests without this information, or sent to the wrong address, have a high probability of being completely ignored. Registration by network mail will be acknowledged, receipt by post will not be acknowledged (although location information will be sent out later). Registration will be on a first-come-first-serve basis; if we cannot accommodate you, you will be informed as soon as possible. The conference talks will be videotaped, and copies will be available for purchase at a later date.