If you have experience or questions about Digital Unix, here is a chance to
meet face to face with the responsible Compaq (nee Digital) Engineers and
talk with them about your Digital Unix problems, issues and concerns.
Please do not reply to alpha managers, but direct all discussions of this
topic to the mailing list: "unix-sig_at_decus.org"
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Mark your calendars....
12-17 June, 1999. Providence, Rhode Island.
6-11 November 1999. San Diego, California.
The Unix SIG is assigned the task of defining the Unix program track for
the Spring and Fall DECUS events in 1999.
The Call for Participation (CFP) for the Spring DECUS has been posted on
the DECUS website.
http://ww2.decus.org/cfp/cfpinitial.asp
Deadline for submission is 31 December 1998.
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The Spring event will be billed with a title something like
"The Engineering Conference of our time."
Why...? Because Providence is about a 1-2 hour drive from the homes
of something like 90% of the Digital Unix Engineering team!
Makes it easy for them to attend, present, and otherwise get taken out to
dinner by grateful customers eager to pour the next enhancements they want
into the engineer's brains along with some food and wine.
(Hmmm... how about a Unix SIG banquet one night? Food options in Providence
are wonderful! Or maybe we just do beer and pizza on the floor of a room
covered with wrestling mats?)
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Ok, Here's the important stuff...
Compaq will be providing approximately 80% of the content of the entire
conference.... product updates, specific engineering presentations, etc.
We are asked to beat the bushes and provide 20%.
There are basically 2 ways to effect the content of the Conference.
1- Tell Compaq what Unix sessions we want.
2- Make the Unix presentations ourselves.
Your input can be
by working directly on the CAT (sounds like an old Dr. Shock
movie.. Igor, bring me the forceps...)
[Currently, myself and Rochelle Lauer are the only two
volunteers on the Unix Conference Advisory Team, and it
would be nice to have some others to assist.]
by submitting your ideas, requests, presentations either
directly to us or via the CFP form mentioned above.
Please feel free to discuss this via the unix-sig_at_decus.org mailing list
or email me or Rochelle directly.
Rochelle Lauer, Yale Univ Physics" <LAUER_at_hepvms.physics.yale.edu>
* * * If Elected, an iMac on the dining room table for everyone! * * *
===<"DeSIGnated Baby Seal" and DECUS "UNIX SIG Chair Protem">===
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill Senior Systems Administrator
Information Services and Computing (ISC) University of Pennsylvania
Internet: magill_at_isc.upenn.edu magill_at_acm.org
magill_at_upenn.edu
http://pobox.upenn.edu/~magill/
Received on Mon Dec 21 1998 - 22:25:16 NZDT