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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