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Submitted-by: duke@portal.paperboy.osf.org (Robert Robillard)

In article <1arghmINNnbe@ftp.UU.NET> sp@osf.org (Simon Patience) writes:
   In article <1aq5e3INN5rh@ftp.UU.NET>, ejsvehla@happy.colorado.edu writes:
   > I am looking for information pertaining to participating in POSIX working
   > groups.  Does anybody out there know how to do this?

Maybe we should add this to the FAQ?

   Yes, go to the next POSIX meeting. It is in Utrecht, Netherlands starting
   on the 26th of this month. I don't have the details, sorry.

Actually, it's the week before that October 19-23, at the Holiday Inn
(030-910368) and Scandic Crown (030-925200) Hotels in Utrecht.  Not
all the groups are going; however, the biggies are (1003.1, .2, .3,
.4, .5, .6, .7, .8, .10/.15, .11, .12, .14, .17, and 1201.2).

I can't find the address to write to if you want to get on the mailing 
lists for POSIX meeting minutes and drafts, but if you contact the
company that does the copying and mailing, I'm sure they'll take your
money:

        NAPS International
        9611 12th Ave South
        Bloomington, MN 55425
        USA
        612 888-0074
        612 888-0135

They may not know the word "POSIX."  You may have to use the phrase
"IEEE TCOS" (which stands for Technical Committee on Operating Systems.
TCOS is the parent organization of POSIX).

If you want to get on the list of people who get asked to vote on standards,
send mail to 

        IEEE Standards Office
        Attn: Anna Kaczmarek
        PO Box 1331
        Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331
        USA

and tell her you want to join the "TCOS Standards Subcommittee." Give 
your IEEE or IEEE Computer Society Number, if you've got one.  It says 
here that "Only IEEE or Computer Society members are eligibble balloters
on IEEE proposed Standards; non-members can participate as Parties of 
Interest."  This means non-member can vote and object, but their vote 
doesn't count in the final tally.

Joining the IEEE Computer Society is a lot cheaper than joining the
IEEE;  I think about $50 as opposed to about $100. Contact

        Computer Society of the IEEE
        1730 Massachusetts Ave NW
        Washington, DC 20036-1903
        USA

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Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 51