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From: fgreco@shearson.com (Frank Greco)
>Does anyone have any highlights/lowlights of the 1992 SUG conference?

Nothing official, but I'll take a stab from a board member's
informal perspective:

The overall conference attendence was the highest since 1990 (which
was our highest ever), almost double 1991. That would be around 3500
total attendees (this includes exhibition attendees) vs. around 4000
in 1990 and 2000 (?) in 1991.

There were 105 vendors exhibiting at the show, comments were very
positive and many signed up for next year from the floor.

Sun was noticeably absent, something which infuriated at least some of
the vendors on the floor. Sun did have a listening booth on the floor
but not much else.

Sun cited budgetary constraints repeatedly as the reason, let's hope
they can straighten out their financial problems and manage to make it
8 miles down the road next year. At the open board meeting SunPro
claimed their budget was too tight to accept even the free booth SUG
offered them, so things must be very tight over there!

As usual I was dragged into so much SUG business I didn't get to many
technical talks though I hear they went well. Rob Gingell and company
from the SunOS group did their annual Developer's Panel. I know that
was well attended (as usual) because around 9PM I got a frantic call
that they had run out of beer, a problem which we quickly fixed.

Perhaps someone can summarize Steve Bourne and Rob Kolstad's talks?

Michael Tiemann of Cygnus, Inc and GCC/G++ fame gave a very
interesting and entertaining lunchtime talk on how Cygnus has built a
very successful business supporting "free" software and what that
might mean to the industry and the rest of us.

Your turn...

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Lowlites included the poor planning for the all day technical seminars.
The room I was in for the Internet Protocols tutorial was packed.  Extra
chairs were brought in, but sitting in a chair juggling notes, paper, and
writing instruments without the benefit of a table gets tiresome.

The seminar rooms were the same rooms as the technical session rooms,
except they were cut in half with the sliding room dividers.  Nothing
was on the other side of the room dividers except space which could
have been used to handle the overflow crowd.  We had about 2 hours off
for lunch.  Surely they could have opened up the room and put in more
tables in 2 hours.

In any case, $450 for a week of technical sessions and gourmet food for
lunch :-) is still a bargain!!

It would be nice if someone from SUG would follow up with the presentors
and get all those slides put on sunsite.unc.edu as promised.

JR.


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