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Dear SGML Users Group:  

	The next meeting of the Washington Area SGML Users Group
will be held on Wednesday, November 19, at 7:00 p.m.  Meetings
usually last approximately 2 hours.  

	The meeting will be held at the American Geophysical Union,
2000 Florida Avenue, Washington, D.C.  Public parking is available
across the street or you can take the Metro and get off at the Dupont
Circle Metro stop.  Our host is Jon Sears from the AGU. For directions
to AGU, point your Web browser to:  http://www.agu.org/directns.html.  

	For those interested, Corel has sent 50 90 day free trials
of Word Perfect 8 with SGML.  Also, the latest International
SGML Users Group Newsletters will also be available.

IMPORTANT:  The doors at AGU are locked afterhours.  Someone is 
	    at the door until 7:30 to let people in.  If you arrive
            after 7:30, please wait a few minutes and someone will
            check the doors periodically.

Attached is the agenda for the meeting.   

        Harvey Bingham - Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation.  The YRIF
		is a non-profit charitable organization.  If anyone
		would like to help donate to cover the cost of 
		Harvey's travel from New England, please let me
		know.
	TBD - Crystal Software - Astoria Component Management System


		In June of this year, Chrystal Software was invited to 
		participate in an event sponsored by the NY SGML Forum.  The 
		event was intended to provide the attendees with insight into 
		the capabilities of 3 popular document management systems.  
		Copyrighted scenarios were provided to each vendor, along with 
		a data set and each vendor was asked to demonstrate his/her 
		document management system as it applied to the scenarios.  
		The scenarios, of course, were designed to exercise the 
		repositories in areas that the event's sponsors believed to be 
		critical to successful document management implementations.  

		Chrystal has obtained permission from the NY SGML Forum to 
		reuse the scenarios and data set at the November 19, 1997 
		meeting of the Washington SGML Users' Group.  Representatives 
		from Chrystal Software will use this context to demonstrate 
		Astoria 2.0.  We invite you all to attend this information 
		filled event and to evaluate the Astoria Document Management 
		System's ability to satisfy these exacting requirements.
 
There will not be a meeting of the Users Group in December due to SGML 97.

Below is the tentative agenda for the January 1998 meeting.  Several 
People have been discussing the possibility of having more user oriented 
tutorials next year.  Your feedback and comments about what kind of things you 
would like to see would be appreciated.  We will try to get volunteers to to 
give these mini-tutorials.

Barry Schaeffer, Information Strategies
William Farley, Arbortext 
		GEM Editorial Support System 
		Editorial productivity in SGML, view of new 
		authoring for electronic delivery. 
 
Greg Meyer
		Nichols Business Solutions Division (NBS) at 
		Nichols Research, Inc.  SGML to Solve Business 
		Problems 

Washington Area SGML Users Group Web Site:  http://www.eccnet.com/sgmlug
Electronic copies of papers supplied from speakers are available on-line.

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