Access to UNIX User Groups
jsq at longway.tic.com
jsq at longway.tic.com
Fri Jan 20 16:05:15 AEST 1989
This is the latest in a series of similar comp.std.unix articles,
intended to give summary information about UNIX User groups;
to be accurate, but not exhaustive. It's cross-posted to
comp.org.usenix and comp.unix.questions because there might be
interest there.
There are three related articles, posted at the same time as this one,
and with subjects
Calendar of UNIX-related Events
Access to UNIX-Related Publications
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).
Changes since last posting: Hungarian address. Exact JUS dates for 1989.
AMIX events. ICX89. New OSF address.
Access information is given in this article for the following:
user groups: USENIX, /usr/group, UNIX Expo, /usr/group/cdn,
EUUG, AFUU, UKUUG, /usr/group/uk, GUUG, i2u,
UUGA, BUUG, DKUUG, FUUG, Hungary, ICEUUG, IUUG,
NLUUG, NUUG, EUUG-S,
AUUG, NZUSUGI, JUS, KUUG, Sinix, CUUG, AMIX, ICX89,
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).
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 at usenix.org
USENIX sponsors two USENIX Conferences a year, featuring technical papers,
as well as tutorials, and with vendor exhibits at the summer conferences:
1989 Jan 30-Feb 3 USENIX Town & Country Inn, San Diego, CA
1989 Jun 12-16 USENIX Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
1990 Jan 22-26 USENIX Washington, DC
1990 Jun 11-15 USENIX Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
1991 Jan 21-25 USENIX Dallas, TX
1991 Jun 10-14 USENIX Opryland, Nashville, TN
1992 Jan 20-24 USENIX Hilton Square, San Francisco, CA
1992 Jun 8-12 USENIX Marriott, San Antonio, TX
1993 Jan USENIX somewhere in northeast of North America
They also sponsor workshops, such as
1989 Apr 3-4 Software Management Workshop Hilton, New Orleans, LA
1989 Oct 5-6 Dist. Systems Workshop Marriott Marina, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1989 Oct Large Systems Installation Workshop, Colorado Springs, CO
1989 Nov/Dec Graphics Workshop V
Proceedings for all conferences and workshops are available at
the door and by mail later. Some of the older ones have been
out of print, but reprints are being planned.
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.
1989 Feb 28-Mar 2 UniForum Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
1990 Jan 23-26 UniForum Washington Hilton, Washington, DC
1991 Jan 22-25 UniForum Infomart, Dallas, TX
1992 Jan 21-24 UniForum Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
1993 Mar 2-4 UniForum 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.
UNIX EXPO is an annual very large vendor exhibit in New York City
with tutorials and technical presentations. It is held at the
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, with lodging arrangements with
the Sheraton Centre Hotel, both in Manhattan.
1989 Nov 1-3 UNIX EXPO Javits Conv. C, New York, NY
National Expositions Co., Inc.
15 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
U.S.A.
+1-212-391-9111
fax: +1-212-819-0755
Reservations Department
Sheraton Centre Hotel
811 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10019
U.S.A.
+1-212-581-1000
Fax: +1-212-262-4410
Telex: 421130
/usr/group/cdn is the Canadian branch of /usr/group, and holds an
annual spring conference and trade show modeled after UniForum,
usually at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. They also hold
a UNIX in Government show in the winter in Ottawa.
Exhibitors and attendees can contact:
Fawn Lubman
Communications 2000
4195 Dundas St. #201
Etobicoke, Ontario M8X 1Y4
Canada
+1-416-239-3043
/usr/group/cdn
241 Gamma St.
Etobicoke, Ontario M8W 4G7
Canada
+1-416-259-8122
1989 Jan 10-11 U in Gov. C&T /usr/group/cdn, Ottawa, ON
1989 May U 8x/etc C&T /usr/group/cdn, Toronto, ON
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
+44 763 73039
fax: +44 763 73255
uunet!mcvax!inset!euug
euug at inset.co.uk
They have a quarterly newsletter, EUUGN, and hold two conferences a year:
1989 Apr 3-7 EUUG Palais des Congres, Brussels, Belgium
Chair: Prof Marc Nyssen
<marc at minf.vub.uucp>
uunet!mcvax!prlb2!vub!minf1!marc
+32-2-477-4000
fax: +32-2-477-4424
Medical Informaticas Dept.
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Laarbeeklaan 103
B-1090 Jette
Belgium
1989 Sep 18-22 EUUG WU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Chair: eva Kuehn
1990 Apr 23-27 EUUG Munich, Germany (tentative)
1990 Autumn EUUG south of France
1991 Spring EUUG Tromso?, Norway (tentative)
1992 Spring EUUG Jersey, U.K. (tentative)
1992 Autumn EUUG Amsterdam, Netherlands (tentative)
AFUU is the Association Franc\*,aise des Utilisateurs d'UNIX,
or French UNIX Users' Group. They are holding a small convention
in November and a large one in the spring with tutorials and a
vendor exhibit.
AFUU
11 Rue Carnot
94270 Le Kremlin Bicetre
France
+33-1-4670-9590
Telex: 263 887 F
1989 Feb 28-Mar 3 U Convention AFUU, Paris, France
UKUUG is the United Kingdom Unix systems Users' Group.
Bill Barrett
UKUUG
Owles Hall
Buntingford
Herts. SG9 9PL
United Kingdom
+44 763 73039
1988 Dec 19-20 UKUUG London
/usr/group/UK is the U.K. affiliate of /usr/group, and holds an annual
COMUNIX Conference in June in conjunction with the European UNIX User Show,
which is an achibition organised by EMAP INternation Exhibitions.
Tracy MacIntyre
Exhibition Manager
EMAP International Exhibitions Ltd.
Abbot's Court
34 Farringdon Lane
London EC1R 3AU
United Kingdom
+44-1-404-4844
1989 Jun 7-9 COMUNIX /usr/group/UK, Alexandra Palace, London
1989 Jun 7-9 Eur. U User Show EMAP Int. Exh., Alexandra Palace, London
The German UNIX Systems User Group (GUUG) has an annual convention in the fall.
Dieter Laengle
AIC Software
Mozartstrasse 3
D-8000, Muenchen 2
Federal Republic of Germany
+49 89 5380503
laengle at aicmuc.uucp
The Italian UNIX Systems User Group (i2u) holds an annual summer
Italian UNIX Convention, with tutorials and a vendor exhibition.
Carlo Mortarino
i2u Secretariat
Via Monza, 347
20126 Milano
Italy
+39-2-2520-2530
i2u at i2unix.uucp
1989 Jun Italian U C i2u, Italy
The following information about European groups courtesy EUUG:
Austria (UUGA)
Friedrich Kofler
c/o Austro Olivetti
Rennwe 9
A-1030 Vienna
Austria
+43 222 7345010
kofler at oliol.uucp
Belgium (BUUG)
Marc Nyssen
Department of Medical Informatics
VUB
Laarbeeklaan 103
B-1090 Brussels
Belgium
+32 2 4784890 Ext. 1424
buug at vub.uucp
Denmark (DKUUG)
Mogens Buhelt
Kabbeleejvej 27B
DK-2700 Bronshoj
Denmark
+45 2 865533
dkuug at diku.dk
Finland (FUUG)
Johan Helsingius
Oy Penetron Ab
Box 21
02171 Espoo
Finland
+358 0 427632 or 673280
julf at penet.fi
Hungary
Dr El\o'o^'d Knuth
Computer and Automation Institute
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
P.O. Box 63
H-1502 Budapest 112
Hungary
+36 1 665 435
Iceland (ICEUUG)
Marius Olafsson
University Computer Center
Hjardarhaga 4
Reykjavik
Iceland
+354 1 25088
iceuug at rhi.is
Ireland (IUUG)
John Carolan
Glockenspiel Ltd.
19 Belvedere Place
Dublin
Ireland
+353 1364515
john at puschi.uucp
Netherlands (NLUUG)
Patricia H. Otter
c/o Xirion bv.
World Trade Centre
Strawinskylaan 1135
1077 XX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31 206649411
patricia at xirion.uucp
Norway (NUUG)
Jan Brandt Jensen
NUUG
c/o Unisoft A.S.
Enebakkvn 154
N-O680 Oslo 6
Norway
+47 2 688970
ndosl!ZEUS!jan
Sweden (EUUG-S)
Hans Johansson
NCR Svenska AB
Box 1206
S-164 28 Kista
Sweden
euug at enea.se
AUUG is the Australian UNIX systems Users Group.
Tim Roper
Secretary
AUUG
timr at labtam.oz.au
uunet!labtam.oz.au!timr
AUUG
P.O. Box 366
Kensington
N.S.W. 2033
Australia
uunet!munnari!auug
auug at munnari.oz.au
Phone contact can occasionally be made at +61 3 344 5225
AUUG holds one major national Conference and Exhibition per year during
August or September, and regional, technical meetings in February or
March. The next one will be
1989 Aug 8-11 AUUG Hilton Hotel, Sydney
There will be tutorials on 8 August, and technical sessions the other
two days. The vendor exhibition will be open from the afternoon of
8 August through the morning of 11 August.
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 Japan UNIX Society has three meetings a year, and a newsletter.
The JUS UNIX Symposium is held twice annually, once in the winter and
once in the summer. It has technical presentations, tutorials,
and a vendor exhibit. The JUS UNIX Fair is held once a year, and
has a vendor exhibit, tutorials, and seminars.
Japan UNIX Society (JUS)
#505 Towa-Hanzomon Corp. Bldg.
2-12 Hayabusa-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
Japan
bod%jus.junet at uunet.uu.net
+81-3-234-5058
UNIX Fair '88 Association
1-1-1 Hirakawa-chu,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
Japan
1988 Dec 7-8 JUS UNIX FAIR '88 Tokyo, Japan
1989 Jul 10-12 13th JUS UNIX S Tokyo
1989 Nov 9-10 14th JUS UNIX S Osaka
1989 Dec 5-6 UNIX Fair '89 JUS, Tokyo
The Korean UNIX User Group (KUUG) has a software distribution service
and a newsletter. They hold an annual Korean UNIX Symposium in the winter.
Korean UNIX User Group
ETRI
P.O. Box 8
Daedug Science Town
Dae Jeon CIty
Chungnam 301-350
Republic of Korea
Kee Wook Rim
rim at kiet.etri.re.kr
+82-42-822-4455 x4646
fax: +82-42-823-1033
1988 Dec 10 Korean U S KUUG, Korea
The Singapore UNIX Association (Sinix) holds an annual Southeast Asian
Regional Computer Conference.
James Clark
Sinix
c/o Computer Systems Advisers, Ltd.
203 Henderson Industrial Park
Wing B #1207-1214
Singapore 0315
+65-273-0681
fax: 65-278-1783
The China UNIX User Group (CUUG) is the Chinese /usr/group affiliate.
Xu Kongshi
China UNIX User Group
P.O. Box 8718
Beijing, 100080
People's Republic of China
+86-1-282013
AMIX - the Israeli UNIX user group, is a S.I.G. of the Israeli Processing
Association (IPA). AMIX has a yearly conference and other activities:
1989 January 25 One day tutorial on "UNIX Interfaces",
given by Dr. M. Bach and Dr. J. Issacson, at Kfar Hamacabia, Israel.
1989 January 26 One day workshop on "Graphical User Interfaces",
talks on DEC XUI, HP NewWave, Apollo OpenDialogue, Sun/ATT OpenLook,
and SCO Xenix Multiview), also at Kfar Hamacabia, Israel.
1989 May 14-16 4th AMIX conference. Theme - "UNIX in Israel - Research,
Development and Implementation". A balanced mixture of
technical sessions and tutorials is planned.
Also at Kfar Hamacabia, Israel.
AMIX, c/o IPA
P.O. Box 919
Ramat-Gan
Israel, 52109
Tel: +972-3-715770
Tel: +972-3-715772
amix at bimacs.bitnet
amix at bimacs.biu.ac.il
ICX89 is the First International Conference on Advanced Computing,
and is being organised by the IEEE Student Branch and the Department
of Electronics of the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (USM).
``This first conference will be devoted to the UNIX operating
system and related topics. This subject was chosen to establish
the universal character of this event, as UNIX is now considered.''
There will be a plenary, technical sessions, tutorials, and vendor
and book exhibitions. Official languages will be English and Spanish,
with simultaneous translation.
Submissions of tecnical papers or abstracts should be by three
paper copies or by electronic mail by 15 January 1989. Preliminary
notification of acceptance will be by February 15th, 1989.
Final versions of the papers should be written according to
the IEEE transaction format, and are are due by April 14th, 1989.
Final official notification will be sent by May 15th, 1989.
1989 Jun 19-23 ICX89 IEEE, USM, Valparaiso, Chile
Submissions:
Prof. Leopoldo Silva B.
Department of Electronics
lsb at usmcsd.utfsm.cl
uunet!uchdcc!usmcsd!lsb
Other correspondence:
ICX89
Organizing Committee
icx89 at usmcsd.utfsm.cl
uunet!uchdcc!usmcsd!icx89
+56-32-66-0176 AX 359
Telex: 330622 UTFSM CX
Fax: 056 32 660176 147
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
P.O. Box 110-V
Valparaiso
Chile
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:
1989 May 8-12 DECUS S Atlanta, Georgia
1989 Nov 6-10 DECUS S Anaheim, California
1990 May 7-11 DECUS S 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 at sun.com
sun!users
Their next annual conference is:
1989 Dec SUG ?
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 have held 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 V.4 Soft. Dev. Hanover, NJ
1988 Sep 27-29 V.4 Soft. Dev. Los Angeles, CA
1988 Oct 12-14 V.4 Soft. Dev. Tokyo, Japan
1988 Oct 26-28 V.4 Soft. Dev. London, England
1988 Nov 9-11 V.4 Soft. Dev. Boston, MA
1988 Nov 29-Dec 1 V.4 Soft. Dev. Chicago, IL
1988 Dec 6-8 V.4 Soft. Dev. San Francisco, CA
1988 Dec 13-15 V.4 Soft. Dev. Washington D.C.
For more information:
Melinda L. Marrs
1-800-387-6100
melinda at Sun.COM
Conference Coordinator
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Garcia St.
Mountain View, CA
U.S.A.
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:
+1-617-621-8700
Larry Lytle or Gary McCormack
Open Software Foundation
11 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02139
U.S.A.
Volume-Number: Volume 16, Number 6
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