weekend pay-for-it conference on GNU

[rodney at sabletech.com (Rodney Thayer)]

here's what Linus is doing this weekend.

>To: Rodney Thayer <rodney at sabletech.com>
>Subject: Re: please send info 
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:20:51 -0500
>From: "Peter H. Salus" <peter at va.pubnix.com>
>
>
>Conference on Freely Redistributable Software
>
>Sponsored by the Free Software Foundation
>
>Over the past 15 years freely redistributable software
>with accessible code has become ubiquitous.  GNU 
>Emacs is the most popular Unix editor in the world;
>Linux may well be the most exciting Unix-compatible 
>kernel;  Perl has become indispensable to 
>system administrators;  Expect automates and controls
>interactive programs.
>
>Join us for a unique conference that will bring together 
>implementors of different types of freely redistributable 
>software as well as the publishers of the operating 
>systems and the tools and applications.
>
>Systems and kernels involved will be the Gnu/Hurd, Linux, 
>NetBSD, 386/BSD, and FreeBSD; tools and applications 
>include Bison, Flex, Expect, Emacs, PERL, and GCC.
>
>This is the first conference dedicated to bringing together all 
>those involved in freely redistributable software.
>
>Join us for this and much, much more!
>
>Cambridge Center Marriott 
>Friday, February 2 through Monday, February 5, 1996
>
>Full Conference Schedule
>
>Friday, February 2, 1996
>	Registration 6-10pm
>	Reception 7-9pm
>
>Saturday, February 3, 1996
>	Registration 8am - 6pm
>	Tutorials 9am - 5pm
>		S1: Linux: An Open System for Everyone
>		           (am) - Phil Hughes
>		S2: Installing and Running Linux (pm)
>			   Phil Hughes
>		S3: Expect (full day) - Don Libes
>		S5: Advanced editing with Emacs (pm)
>		           Richard M. Stallman
>	[box lunch is included with tutorial registration]
>	BoFs 7pm - 10pm
>
>SPECIAL!  GAMELAN CONCERT 8-10pm
>
>Sunday, February 4, 1996
>	Registration 8am - 6pm
>
>	9-10am: Keynote: Linus Torvalds, introduced by Phil Hughes
>
>	10:30am: Session I - Chris Demetriou, chair
>
>		Automated Management of an Heterogeneous
>		Distributed Production Environment -
>		Ph. Defert et al., CERN
>
>		Freely Redistributable Software across the 
>		Internet - Neil Smith, University of Kent
>
>		Linux for Research and Teaching of 
>		Operating Systems - Victor Yodaiken, New Mexico
>		Institute of Mining and Technology
>
>	1:30pm: Session II - Don Libes, Session Chair
>
>		Freely Redistributable Instead of Commercial
>		Software -- Yugoslav Experience - Radivoje
>		Zonjic, University of Belgrade
>
>		Linux on the OSF Mach3 micro-kernel -
>		Francois Barbou des Places, OSF/Grenoble
>
>		Internationalization in the GNU Project -
>		Ulrich Drepper, University of Karlsruhe
>
>		Free Software vs. the Medical Challenges 
>		of the 1990's - Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris
>		Cancer Center
>
>	3:30pm: Session III 
>
>		The RPM Packaging System - Marc Ewing & 
>		Erik Troan, Red Hat Software
>
>		Coordinating Joint Cost/No-cost Rights for 
>		Software Developed with SBIR Funding -
>		Philip A. Wilsey & Dale E. Martin,
>		University of Cincinnati
>
>		Licensing Alternatives for Freely 
>		Redistributable Software - L. Peter Deutsch,
>		Aladdin Enterprises
>
>	5:15pm: Keynote:  Richard M. Stallman, introduced by
>		L. Peter Deutsch
>
>	8-9pm: Special Presentation on INN - Rich Salz, OSF
>
>	8-10pm: BoFs
>
>Monday, 5 February 1996
>	8-10am: Registration
>	9am - 5pm: Tutorials
>		M1: Programming the GNU/Hurd (full day) - 
>			Michael I. Bushnell	
>		M2: BSD Internals (am) - Margo Seltzer & 
>			Aaron Brown
>		M3: GCC (pm) - Richard M. Stallman
>		M4: Perl (full day) - Tom Christiansen
>
>Conference Registration: $250 (Students see *)
>
>Tutorial fees:
>Half-day		$220
>One day 		$375
>One-and-a-half		$570
>Two days		$640
>(Students see *)
>
>HOTEL INFORMATION
>
>The conference will be held at the Cambridge Center Marriott,
>just across the street from the MIT campus and at the Kendall/MIT
>station of the Red Line ``T'' \(em the Boston subway.
>
>To Make Your Hotel Reservation
>
>Special hotel rates have been arranged for attendees at the Conference on 
>Freely Redistributable Software:  US $95/night single or double.  There
>are non-smoking rooms available.  Call the Cambridge Center Marriott 
>directly: +1 800 228-9290 in the US and Canada; +1 617 494-6600 from 
>elsewhere.  Fax: +1 617 494-0036.  To ensure that you get the 
>special hotel rate, tell ``reservations'' that you 
>are an attendee at the Conference on Freely Redistributable 
>Software.
>
>+1 800 228-9290 in the US and Canada; 
>+1 617 494-6600 elsewhere
>
>Program committee
>
>Peter H. Salus, chair
>Robert J. Chassell
>Chris Demetriou
>John Gilmore
>Marshall Kirk McKusick
>Rich Morin
>Eric S. Raymond 
>Vernor Vinge
>----
>
>TUTORIAL OFFERINGS
>
>Saturday, February 3
>
>Course S1.  Linux: An Open System For Everyone
>(half-day tutorial, am); Instructor: Phil Hughes
>
>Originally a PC-based product, Linux now runs on other hardware including
>the Alpha. Linux is making serious inroads into commercial areas and,
>in many cases, offers a viable Unix alternative at low cost.
>
>Topics covered include:  What is Linux?; The Linux Copyright--GPL;
>Linux Design Philosophy; Linux Distributions; Is Linux Commer-cially 
>Viable?; Using Linux; Future of Linux.
>
>Phil Hughes is the publisher of the \fILinux Journal\fP, the monthly 
>magazine of the Linux community.
>
>Course S2.  Installing and Running Linux
>(half-day, pm); Instructor: Phil Hughes
>
>This is a look ``under the hood.'' It will cover what makes up a Linux
>system, what you need, how to install it, and what to do when something
>goes wrong. 
>
>Topics will include:  Assessing Hardware Requirements; Comparison of Linux 
>Distributions; Configuration Decisions; Installation; Systems Administration;
>Networking and Interoperability; What to do when something goes wrong.
>
>Course S3. Expect -- Automating Interactive Applications
>(full-day tutorial); Instructor: Don Libes
>
>This tutorial will teach students how to automate
>interactive programs such as telnet, ftp, passwd, and many other
>applications.  It will also explain how to test interactive
>applications, how to connect such applications, how to
>reuse interactive programs in Web applications, and how to build X GUIs
>without rewriting existing code; all this with security
>and reliability.  An hour will be devoted to Tcl/tk.
>
>Don Libes is the author of Exploring Expect 
>and co-author of Life with Unix.  In another life he
>works at NIST.
>
>Course S5. Advanced editing with Emacs
>(half-day tutorial, pm); Instructor: Richard M. Stallman
>
>Emacs is both an editor and a programming environment.  In 
>this tutorial, the creator of the most popular of all Unix editors
>will move beyond the everyday.  This tutorial will explain advanced 
>Emacs facilities for editing text and programs and manipulating 
>files -- features including programming language major modes, tags 
>tables, enriched mode, and shell buffers -- all without Emacs Lisp 
>programming.
>
>Richard M. Stallman is the President of the Free Software 
>Foundation and the creator of Emacs.  He is also the 
>principal author of Bison and GCC.  
>
>Monday, February 5
>
>Course M1. Programming the GNU/Hurd
>(full-day tutorial); Instructor: Michael I. Bushnell
>
>The GNU/Hurd is a multi-server operating system which runs on Mach
>3.0.  In Unix and most Mach-based systems, the majority of system
>facilities are concentrated in a single entity (called variously the
>`kernel' or the `single server').  The goal of this tutorial is to describe
>the architecture of the Hurd with special attention to its innovative
>aspects, as well as to provide guidance to programmers who wish to
>program or extend the Hurd.  It will describe the existing Hurd servers 
>and the library as well as cover subjects such as: The core interfaces of the 
>GNU/Hurd for process management and I/O;  The implementation of signals 
>entirely in the library, and how correctness is achieved;  How to use 
>the additional libraries the Hurd provides to make writing servers easier;
>The implementation of fork and exec.
>
>Michael Bushnell is the principal architect and designer of the
>GNU/Hurd.  He works for the FSF doing operating systems development.
>
>Course M2.  BSD Internals
>(half-day tutorial, am); Instructors: Margo Seltzer and Aaron Brown
>
>This tutorial will present an overview of the kernel architecture
>of 4.4BSD.  The presentation will emphasize porting to new
>architectures.
>
>Margo Seltzer received her Ph.D. from the University
>of California at Berkeley, where she worked on file systems.
>She is an assistant professor of Computer Science at Harvard University;
>Aaron Brown is at Harvard University, where he has 
>recently ported NetBSD to the SS 20.
>
>Course M3.  Writing machine descriptions using GCC
>(half-day tutorial, pm); Instructor: Richard M. Stallman
>
>This tutorial will explain the overall organization of the GNU C
>compiler and the RTL data structure, and how to use it to write 
>a new machine description.  Students don't need to know anything about 
>the GNU C internals, but should be prepared to learn fast.
>
>Richard M. Stallman is the principal author of GCC.
>
>Course M4. Perl Programming
>(full-day tutorial); Instructor: Tom Christiansen
>
>Perl is a publicly available and highly portable interpreted 
>programming language occupying the large niche between shell and 
>C programming.  Perl's syntax and features resemble C, in combination 
>with the best parts of sh, sed, awk, etc.  Because Perl incorporates 
>aspects of more than a dozen other Unix tools, experienced 
>users will come up to speed on Perl rapidly.  This course is suitable 
>for individuals who have barely looked at Perl before.  It is essential
>that students have a strong background in Unix shell programming, with
>a good working knowledge of regular expressions.  Some background in
>sed, awk, and some C programming is useful but not essential.  Topics of 
>this tutorial include detailed descriptions and numerous
>examples of the syntax and semantics of the language, its data types,
>operators, control flow, regular expressions, and I/O facilities, and
>the Perl debugger.
>
>Tom Christiansen is a software consultant specializing in Perl 
>applications, optimizations, and training.  He serves on the 
>Board of Directors of the USENIX Association, and is well-known 
>for his courses in Perl programming.  
>
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>Conference on Freely Redistributable Software
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>TUTORIALS
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>Saturday, 3 February
>
>S1. Linux OS	(am)		[  ]
>
>S2. Instal. Linux	(pm)		[  ]
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>S3. Expect	(full day)	[  ]
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>S5. Adv. Emacs	(pm)		[  ]
>
>Monday, 5 February
>
>M1. GNU/Hurd	(full day)	[  ]
>
>M2. BSD	(am)		[  ]
>
>M3. GCC	(pm)		[  ]
>
>M4. Perl		(full day)	[  ]
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>TOTAL	    ______
>
>A boxed lunch is included with Tutorial registration.  
>
>Please indicate preference:
>
>Saturday Tutorials:   [  ] Chicken   [  ] Beef    [  ] Vegetarian Tossed Salad
>
>Monday Tutorials:    [  ] Turkey    [  ] Ham+cheese  [  ] Vegetarian pocket
>
>*  Attention Students:  Student fees: $50/conference; $75/tutorial;
>Preregistration only.  There will be a limited number of 
>scholarships available for students applying with a copy of current
>student identification.
>
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>The Conference on Freely Redistributable Software will be held February 2-5
1996 at the 
>
>Cambridge Marriott Hotel, Kendall Square, Cambridge MA, USA.
>
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>	Free Software Foundation 
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>	Phone: +1 617 542-5942 Fax: +1 617 542-2652 
>	email: confinfo at gnu.ai.mit.edu
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>

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