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	      CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

		International Free Software Conference
		      Development and Deployment

			   19-23 April 1993

			    Moscow, Russia

   A conference on Free Software will be held 19-23 April 1993 at the
International Center for Scientific and Technical Information in
Moscow, Russia.  The conference is hosted by SUUG, the Society of Unix
User Groups (formerly the Soviet Unix Users Group), the Russian Center
for Systems Programming (responsible for free software development and
distribution in Russia), and the International Center for Scientific
and Technical Information.

   Participant specialists are coming from North America, Europe,
Japan, and the Newly Independent States (NIS).  Richard Stallman,
founder of the Free Software Foundation and recipient of the ACM
Admiral Grace Hopper Award and the MacArthur Fellowship, will attend
the conference as Guest of Honor.

   The main topics of the conference include:

   - the current state of the GNU project and other FSF projects;
   - free software means information freedom and sharing;
   - free software portability in Open Systems environments;
   - user experiences with free software;
   - free software in education and training;
   - legal aspects of free software;
   - relevance of free software to NIS modernization and democracy;
   - how NIS scientists can contribute to free software.

   Concurrent with the conference, there will be a small exhibition
demonstrating free software in a networked heterogeneous environment.

   The conference encourages submissions of original designs, papers
and ideas, and it welcomes the participation of computer and software
companies.

Program Committee
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Jaap Akkerhuis, AT&T Bell Labs, USA
Peter Brusilovsky, ICSTI, Russia
Mick Farmer, Birkbeck College, UK
Jean-Michel Cornu, Jean-Michel Cornu Consultant, France
Judith Grass, AT&T Bell Labs, USA
Geoffrey S. Knauth, Marble Associates, Inc, USA (co-chair)
Sergei Kuznetsov, Institute for Problems of Cybernetics, Russia (co-chair)
Christoph Reisbeck, Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany
John Stasko, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Michael Tiemann, CYGNUS Support, USA
David M. Tilbrook, CS Computing Services, Inc, USA
Dmitry Volodin, DEMOS, Russia

Submission of Papers
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   The program commitee wishes to include both technical papers and
short reviews.

   Submissions should be either a complete paper (4 to 8 pages), or at
least an extended abstract (2 pages).  Please send submissions via
e-mail to the program committee chair, Dr. Sergei Kuznetsov
<kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su> by 15 February 1993.

   If your paper needs special formatting or includes figures, please
send camera-ready copy to the organizing committee, care of:

   Georgi Ostapenko, SUUG-FSF'93
   International Center for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)
   ulitsa Kuusinen, 21-b
   121252, Moscow, Russia.
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   Tel: +7 095 198-98-63, Fax: +7 095 943-00-89,
   Telex: 411 925, e-mail: elena@plb.icsti.su

   Submissions should include name(s) of authors, postal and e-mail
addresses, and a list of keywords.  Each submission will be examined
on the basis of its clarity, technical quality and adherence to the
general theme of the conference.  After review by the program
committee, acceptance/rejection of papers will be confirmed by
28 February 1993.  Abstracts will be distributed at the conference in
English and Russian.  Accepted papers will be published in Proceedings
and distributed at the conference.  Papers will be presented in forty
minute sessions with consecutive translation.

   The International Center for Scientific and Technical Information
hosting the conference in Moscow will also provide a special social
and cultural program to give participants the opportunity to:

  - establish contacts and have meetings with colleagues from Russia
    and other Newly Independent States;
  - get first-hand impressions of current governmental, economic
    and social developments in Russia;
  - gain a better knowledge of Russian history, architecture,
    museums and theatre.

   For further information, you may contact any of the following
members of the program committee:

Name                        Telephone            E-mail
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Moscow
  Sergei Kuznetsov (chair)  +7 (095) 272-4425    kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su
  Peter Brusilovsky         +7 (095) 198-7055    plb@plb.icsti.su
  Dmitry Volodin            +7 (095) 231-2129    dvv@hq.demos.su
Boston
  Geoffrey S. Knauth        +1 (617) 891-5555    gsk@marble.com