[news.announce.conferences] CONVENTION UNIX '89

philip@axis.fr (Philip Peake) (09/08/88)

			CONVENTION UNIX '89
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	Conference/Exhibition announcement & call for papers.
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As in previous years, the Assiciation Francaise des Utilisateurs d'Unix
(AFUU) will be organising a combined conference and exhibition in 1989.

The event will take place in Paris, from the 28th February to the 3rd of
March 1989.  The event is divided into the following sections:

Technical Conference.
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Any person or organisation wishing to present a paper at this conference
should contact the AFUU as soon as possible, sending a resume of the
proposed presentation, to:

		AFUU
		Conferences Techniques
		CONVENTION UNIX '89

		11 rue Carnot
		94270 Le Kremlin-Bicetre
		FRANCE

		Tel: +33 1 46 70 95 90
		Telex: 263887 F
		Email: anne@afuu.fr

The proposed themes for the conference are listed below, but the
program committee will be happy to consider other propositions:

	Distributed Systems
	User Interfaces
	Security
	New Architectures
	Real Time
	Fault Tolerance
	Object oriented environments
	Performance
	Networking and Communications
	Standardisation
	Applications: DBMS, IA, Videotex

Tutorials
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A series of tutorials will be available, these will cover technical
aspects of UNIX in considerable depth. Please contact the AFUU for
further details - NOTE: all tutorials will be given in French.

Exhibition
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The exhibition is organised in collabaration with the Bureau International
de Relations Publiques (B.I.R.P.).
It is currently one of the most successfull, and one of the largest
purely UNIX exhibitions in Europe, and attracts a large number of visitors.
In 1988 there were  more than 100 exibitors, and 6000 visitors, including
800 overseas visitors.
Any potential exhibitors should contact the BIRP at the address below:

		B.I.R.P.
		Attn: Christian MERCIER-LAURENT
		25 rue d'Astorg
		75008  PARIS
		FRANCE

		Tel: +33 1 47 42 20 21
		Telex: 643928 F

Commercial Presentations
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These presentations will run in parallel with the exhibition, and are
designed to allow exhibitors to give a detailed presentation of their
products, and their place in the UNIX market-place.

Any exhibitors interested in taking advantage of this possibility are
asked to contact the AFUU as soon as possible to reserve a slot for
their presentation.

Communications concerning commercial presentations should be
clearly marked:

		"Presentations Commerciales"

User experiences - debates
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Running in parelle with the technical conferences, during the 2nd and 3rd
of March, these days will be dedicated to presentations of experience of
the use of UNIX, and debates on the market and strategy for UNIX.

NOTE: The official language of the whole event is French, although
      it is expected that due to the international nature of this
      event, several presentations will be made in English.

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The AFUU is the French national UNIX user group, and member of the EUUG.
It is a non-profit making organisation, sponsoring conferences, workshops
and an annual exhibition.

It publishes a bi-monthly newsletter devoted to the UNIX community (TRIBUNIX).

For futher details of the AFUU please contact the secretariat at the
address given above.