std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman) (05/24/87)
This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles. The convention schedules and writeups for USENIX and /usr/group have been updated with information from their respective Executive Directors, and the next conferences of AUUG and EUUG are indicated. 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 2299 Berkeley, CA 94710 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 Oct 1987 Contact Jim McGinness: decvax!jmcg POSIX Implementation Workshop Nov 1987 Santa Fe, NM Contact Dave Yost: C++ Workshop {attmail,uunet,usenix}!grand!day 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 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 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 tel: 408-986-8840 fax: 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 8-11 1988 Infomart, Dallas, TX, concurrent with USENIX 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. Aug 1-3 1989 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 featues 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 to members biweekly. /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 Working Groups on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. They have recently produced an Executive Summary of the POSIX standard and funded production of a draft of a Rationale and Notes appendix for that standard. 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. The next one is in Dublin, Ireland, in September. 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. They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined to be every 2 months. The next meeting is in Sydney, 27-28 August 1987. The host is by NSWIT, and for more info people should contact gregw@nswitgould.oz.au, or to submit a paper, bob@basser.cs.su.oz.au (deadline for Abstracts is July 10). 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. 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 20 Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 33
std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (Moderator, John Quarterman) (08/18/87)
This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles. 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 2299 Berkeley, CA 94710 415-528-8649 {uunet,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: 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 Oct 8- 9 1987 Cambridge Marriott, Cambridge, MA 4th USENIX Computer Graphics Workshop Oct 22-23 1987 Contact Jim McGinness: decvax!jmcg POSIX Portability Workshop Nov 1987 Santa Fe, NM Contact Dave Yost: C++ Workshop {attmail,uunet,usenix}!grand!day 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 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 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 tel: 408-986-8840 fax: 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 8-11 1988 Infomart, Dallas, TX, concurrent with USENIX 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. Aug 1-3 1989 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 featues 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 to members biweekly. /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 Working Groups on areas that P1003 has not yet addressed. They have recently produced an Executive Summary of the POSIX standard and funded production of a draft of a Rationale and Notes appendix for that standard. EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group. EUUG secretariat Owles Hall Buntingford Herts SG9 9PL England seismo!mcvax!euug euug@inset.uucp They have a newsletter and hold two conferences a year. The next one is in Dublin, Ireland, 21-25 September, followed by London, England, 11-15 April 1988. 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. They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined to be every 2 months. The next meeting is in Sydney, 27-28 August 1987. The host is by NSWIT, and for more info people should contact gregw@nswitgould.oz.au, or to submit a paper, bob@basser.cs.su.oz.au (deadline for Abstracts is July 10). 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. 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 12, Number 15
std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) (12/20/87)
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. 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, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, DECUS journal: Computing Systems newsletters: ;login:, CommUNIXations, /usr/digest, EUUGN, AUUGN, NUZ magazines: UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD, IX 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: 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 May 12-13 1987 Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC Fifth Workshop on Real-Time Software and Operating Systems IEEE Computer Society and USENIX Association 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 8-11 1988 Infomart, Dallas, TX, concurrent with USENIX 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 to members biweekly. /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 overview of the POSIX standard, ``POSIX Explored,'' and funded production of a draft of a ``Rationale and Notes'' appendix for that standard. EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group. EUUG secretariat Owles Hall Buntingford Herts SG9 9PL England Telephone +44 763 73039 Telefax +44 763 73260 uunet!mcvax!inset!euug euug@inset.co.uk They have a newsletter, EUUGN, and hold two conferences a year. The next one is in London, England, 11-15 April 1988, followed by Lisbon, Portugal, in October. 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 biennial conferences, usually of 2 days each. The next meeting is in February 1987. 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 (in June this year), and publishes a newsletter, ``NUZ.'' New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group P.O. Box 585 Hamilton New Zealand +64-9-454000 The Korean UNIX User Group 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 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. 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. 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 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 IX Magazine UNIX Systems Storyplace Ltd. Eaglehead Publishing Ltd. 137-139 Euston Road Maybury Road London NW1 2AU Woking, Surrey GU21 5HX England England +44-48-6227661 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. 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 12, Number 28
std-unix@uunet.UU.NET (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) (01/16/88)
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. 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, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, DECUS journal: Computing Systems newsletters: ;login:, CommUNIXations, /usr/digest, EUUGN, AUUGN, NUZ magazines: UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD, IX 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: Feb 9-12 1988 Grand Kempinski Hotel, Dallas, TX, concurrent w/UniForum 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 8-11 1988 Infomart, Dallas, TX, concurrent with USENIX 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 to members biweekly. /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 overview of the POSIX standard, ``POSIX Explored,'' and funded production of a draft of a ``Rationale and Notes'' appendix for that standard. EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group. EUUG secretariat Owles Hall Buntingford Herts SG9 9PL England Telephone +44 763 73039 Telefax +44 763 73260 uunet!mcvax!inset!euug euug@inset.co.uk They have a newsletter, EUUGN, and hold two conferences a year. The next one is in London, England, 11-15 April 1988, followed by Lisbon, Portugal, in October. 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 biennial conferences, usually of 2 days each. The next meeting is in February 1987. 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 (in June this year), and publishes a newsletter, ``NUZ.'' New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group P.O. Box 585 Hamilton New Zealand +64-9-454000 The Korean UNIX User Group 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 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. 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. 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 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 IX Magazine UNIX Systems Storyplace Ltd. Eaglehead Publishing Ltd. 137-139 Euston Road Maybury Road London NW1 2AU Woking, Surrey GU21 5HX England England +44-48-6227661 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. 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 Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Access to UNIX User Groups and Publications Reply-To: 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. 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, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, DECUS UNIX SIG, Sun User Group newsletters: ;login:, /usr/digest, EUUGN, AUUGN, NUZ journal: Computing Systems magazines: CommUNIXations, UNIX REVIEW, UNIX/WORLD, IX 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: Feb 10-12 1988 Grand Kempinski Hotel, Dallas, TX, concurrent w/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 May 12-13 1988 Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC Fifth Workshop on Real-Time Software and Operating Systems IEEE Computer Society and USENIX Association 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 8-11 1988 Infomart, Dallas, TX, concurrent with USENIX 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 (in June this year), and publishes a newsletter, ``NUZ.'' New Zealand UNIX Systems User Group P.O. Box 585 Hamilton New Zealand +64-9-454000 The Korean UNIX User Group 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 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. 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 IX Magazine UNIX Systems Storyplace Ltd. Eaglehead Publishing Ltd. 137-139 Euston Road Maybury Road London NW1 2AU Woking, Surrey GU21 5HX England England +44 1 380 1510 +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 12, Number 32
std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) (02/16/88)
From: Dominic Dunlop <uunet!mcvax!sphinx.co.uk!domo> In article <119@longway.TIC.COM> you write: >The main general circulation (more than 10,000 copies per issue) magazines >about the UNIX system are > ... > IX Magazine > Storyplace Ltd. > 137-139 Euston Road > London NW1 2AU > England > +44 1 380 1510 Please be aware that, as of the November, 1987 issue, IX magazine is now Multi-User Computing, ``The Magazine for Open Systems Solutions''. (Ho hum. I like to think that some single-user systems are open, too, but never mind.) While Storyplace is still the publisher, most other details have changed, too: Multi-User Computing magazine Storyplace Ltd. 42 Colebrook Row London N1 8AF England +44 1 704 9351 Further information: ISSN 0267-5692 ``Multi-User Computing deals with open systems based on portable multi-user operating systems. It is available free of charge to managers specifying or influencing the purchase of such systems; DP staff working with them; and management, development and marketing staff in supplier organisations.'' Should this capacious net not catch you... UK subscription: pounds 18 per annum European subscription: pounds 25 per annum Rest of world subscription: pounds 25 per annum -- Dominic Dunlop domo@sphinx.co.uk domo@riddle.uucp Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 17
std-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 21
std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) (03/16/88)
From: Dominic Dunlop <uunet!mcvax!sphinx.co.uk!domo> Hi John, Don't know how far you want to go on UNIX-related periodicals. [ Me neither. Does anyone have any comments as to which of these they would like to see in the usual UNIX User Groups and Publications article? If so, please mail to std-unix-request. I'll summarize later, probably by incorporating some of the listings from below into the article. -mod ] Here are six more possibles: 3B/Journal ``A publication written by 3B computer Owens-Laing Publications Inc users for the support of 3B computer PO Box 2409 users.'' Covers AT&T UNIX boxes. Redmond WA 98073-2409 Bimonthly +1 206 868-0913 $25/yr (US); $35/yr (Can); $82/yr (air) attmail!alpha!jou AT&T Technical Journal Not much to be said. While few issues AT&T Bell Laboratories are devoted to UNIX, most turn out to Circulation Dept. mention its applications. Room 1K-424 101 J F Kennedy Parkway Bimonthly Short Hills NJ 07078 $40/yr (US); $50/yr (overseas) +1 201 564-2582 Byte Concentrates mainly on personal McGraw-Hill Inc. computer, but covers low end of UNIX Phoenix Mill Lane market in some depth. Peterborough NH 03458 Monthly +1 603 924-9281 $22/yr (US); $25/yr(Mex,Can); $37/yr (surface); $69/yr (air,Europe) The C Users Journal ``A service of the C Users Group.'' R&D Publications Inc Mainly DOS-oriented; some UNIX. PO Box 97 McPherson KS 67460 Eight issues per year $20/yr (US/Mex/Can); $30/yr (overseas) +1 316 241-1065 Microsoft Systems Journal Concentrates mainly on MS-DOS and Microsoft Corp OS/2; some references to Xenix 666 Third Avenue creep in. New York NY 10017 Bimonthly (actually very sporadic) 800 533-6625 $50/yr (US); $65/yr (Mex,Can); 800 533-3157 (Ohio) ``International rates on request'' Overseas: contact local Microsoft office Unique ``The UNIX System Information Source.'' Infopro Systems High-quality industry newsletter. PO Box 220 Emphasis on marketing implications of Rescue CA 95672 technical developments. +1 916 677-5870 Monthly $79/yr (US,overseas); $99/yr (air) Use it as you see fit. -- Dominic Dunlop domo@sphinx.co.uk domo@riddle.uucp Volume-Number: Volume 13, Number 31
std-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 3
dalesys@lamont.Columbia.edu (dale chayes) (04/25/88)
From: uunet!lamont!dalesys@lamont.Columbia.edu (dale chayes) Thanks for the summary of Unix User Groups and Pubs. We are small but growing, so please add the Masscomp Users Society to your list. Masscomp Users Society One Technology Park Westford, MA 01886 Attn: Laurie Menard +1 (800) 451-1824 We hold an annual meeting in April. (The 1988 meeting was last week. The date and location for the 1989 meeting will be posted to comp.sys.masscomp as soon as it is set.) We publish a news letter (Musings) quarterly (approximately.) Information is available from Laurie at the number above, by email or phone from me, or by posting to comp.sys.masscomp. -- Dale Chayes Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University usmail: Route 9W, Palisades, N.Y. 10964 voice: (914) 359-2900 extension 434 fax: (914) 359-6817 UUCP: ...philabs!lamont!dale Volume-Number: Volume 14, Number 10
std-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 15
std-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 24
std-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 35
jsq@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