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Article #1102Access to UNIX User Groups and Publications
From: Moderator, John S. Quarterman
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1988 17:22
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1988 17:22
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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 9-12 1988 Grand Kempinski Hotel, Dallas, TX, concurrent w/UniForum
Jun 20-24 1988 Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Jan 31-Feb 3 1989 Town & Country Inn, San Diego, CA
Jun 12-16 1989 Hyatt Regency, Baltimore, MD
Jan 23-26 1990 Washington, DC
Jun 11-15 1990 Marriott Hotel, Anaheim, CA
Jan 22-25 1991 Dallas
Jun 10-14 1991 Opryland, Nashville
They also sponsor workshops, such as
May 12-13 1988 Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
Fifth Workshop on Real-Time Software and Operating Systems
IEEE Computer Society and USENIX Association
Aug 29-30 1988 UNIX Security, Portland, OR
Sep 26-27 1988 UNIX & Supercomputing, Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 17-20 1988 C++ Conference (tentative), Denver, CO
Nov 17-18 1988 Large Installation System Administration II, Monterey,CA
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
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Access to UNIX User Groups and Publications
Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.UU.NET
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 UNIX SIG, Sun User Group
newsletters: ;login:, /usr/digest, EUUGN, AUUGN, NUZ
journal: Computing Systems
magazines: CommUNIXations, 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 Grand Kempinski Hotel, Dallas, TX, concurrent w/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 1988 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 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.
EUUG is the European UNIX systems Users Group.
EUUG secretariat
Owles Hall
Buntingford
Herts SG9 9PL
England
Telephone +44 763 73039
Telefax +44 763 73255
uunet!mcvax!inset!euug
euug@inset.co.uk
They have a newsletter, EUUGN, and hold two conferences a year:
11-15 April 1988, London, England
3-7 October 1988, Lisbon, Portugal
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 at least one conference a year, usually in the spring
(August or September). The next one will be in Melbourne on 13-15
September 1988, will be the first three day meeting, will have a larger
equipment exhibition than any before, and will be professionally
organized for the first time.
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.
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
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@sun.com
sun!users
They have not set a date/location for the 1988 conference yet, but are
actively looking for a hotel (with good pricing and lots of room).
They've narrowed it down to several locations - Miami/Tampa Florida,
Houston/Dallas Texas, and New Orleans LA. The date will probably be
very early December, 1988.
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 1 380 1510 +44 48 622 7661
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
In addition:
Computing Systems CommUNIXations
USENIX Association /usr/group
P.O. Box 2299 4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
Berkeley, CA 94710 Santa Clara, California 95054
U.S.A. U.S.A.
+1-415-528-8649 +1-408-986-8840
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
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