Access to UNIX User Groups and Publications

[std-unix at ut-sally.UUCP]

This is the latest in a series of similar mod.std.unix articles.
This time, I'm cross-posting it to comp.org.usenix to see what happens.
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 7
		El Cerrito, CA 94530
		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

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 also 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 mod.std.unix,
which is for discussion of UNIX-related standards, especially P1003.
For more details, see the posting in mod.std.unix about Access
to UNIX-Related Standards.


/usr/group is "the commercially oriented UNIX system users organization."

		/usr/group
		4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
		Santa Clara, California 95054
		408-986-8840

The annual UniForum Conferences are sponsored by /usr/group and feature
a large trade show, as well as tutorials and technical sessions.

	Feb 10-12 1988 Infomart, Dallas, TX, concurrent with USENIX
	March	  1989 San Francisco
	Winter	  1990 Washington, D.C.

They have also started a regional show:

	August	  1988 Washington, D.C.

/usr/group publishes a bimonthly newsletter called CommUNIXations,
which includes much current industry news.

They also publish the UNIX Products Directory, which offers
information on UNIX-related products.

/usr/group has long been deeply involved in UNIX standardization,
having sponsored the /usr/group 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.  For more details, see the
posting about Access to UNIX-Related Standards.


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.


AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems users Group.

		AUUG
		P.O. Box 366
		Kensington
		N.S.W.	2033
		Australia

		seismo!munnari!auug
		auug at 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 one will probably be in late February 1986.
They publish a newsletter (AUUGN) at a frequency defined
to be every 2 months.


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.  The next
one will be in Nashville, Tennessee, 27 April - 1 May 1987.

		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 9, Number 51