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                   PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
                     AND CALL FOR PAPERS

     The International Workshop "Free Software Development and
Using" organized  by  the  Society  of Unix User Groups (SUUG)
jointly with the Russian Center  of  System  Programming  (the
chapter of the Free Software Foundation) and the International
Center of Scientifical and Technical Information will be  hold
in Moscow  from  April 19 till April 23 1993.  It's supposed a
participation of specialists from North  America,  Europe  and
Japan.
     The main proposed topics of the Workshop are:
     The current  state  of the GNU project and other projects
closed to FSF;
     Free software portability in Open System environments;
     Experiences with free software using;
     Using free  software  for  education  and  free  software
training;
     Legal aspects of free software.
     The set  of  topics  may  me  extended   according   with
additional proposals.
     Simultaneously with the Workshop  a  small  exibition  is
planned to  demonstrate  the using of various free software on
different  computers  connected  by  LAN.   Orgers   for   the
demonstation  of original free designs are accepted.  Also the
participation of computer and software companies is supposed.
     There are several alternatives for the precise  place  of
the Workshop, the final decision will be made later.
     The preliminary staff of the Programm Commitee includes:
     Sergei Kuznetsov, ph. +7 (095) 272-4425,
     e-mail: kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su (The Chairman)
     Peter Brusilovski, ph. +7 (095) 198-7055,
     e-mail: plb@plb.icsti.su
     Dmitry Volodin, ph. +7 (095) 231-2129
     e-mail: dvv@hq.demos.su
     Please send proposals for participation,  paper abstracts
and full papers via e-mail using above addresses.