weekend pay-for-it conference on GNU
Rodney Thayer
rodney at sabletech.com
Wed Jan 31 14:26:10 EST 1996
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.
>
>--------------------------------
>
>Conference on Freely Redistributable Software
>
>REGISTRATION FORM
>
>Name:
>
>Company/Address:
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>
>
>
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>Phone: ___________________ Fax: __________________ email:
______________________________
>
>Conference Registration Fee $250; Students (see *) $_____________
>
>TUTORIALS
>
>I wish to register for:
>
>Saturday, 3 February
>
>S1. Linux OS (am) [ ]
>
>S2. Instal. Linux (pm) [ ]
>
>S3. Expect (full day) [ ]
>
>S5. Adv. Emacs (pm) [ ]
>
>Monday, 5 February
>
>M1. GNU/Hurd (full day) [ ]
>
>M2. BSD (am) [ ]
>
>M3. GCC (pm) [ ]
>
>M4. Perl (full day) [ ]
>
>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.
>
>PAYMENT:
>
>Enclosed: [ ] Check [ ] Money order [ ] Traveler's Check
Payments must be in US Dollars.
>
>Credit Card: [ ] MC [ ] Visa [ ] AmEx [ ] JCB [ ] Diner's Club [
] Carte Blanche
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>
>Signature: _______________________________________
>
>The Conference on Freely Redistributable Software will be held February 2-5
1996 at the
>
>Cambridge Marriott Hotel, Kendall Square, Cambridge MA, USA.
>
>For more information contact:
> Free Software Foundation
> 59 Temple Place Suite 330
> Boston MA 02111-1307 USA
> Phone: +1 617 542-5942 Fax: +1 617 542-2652
> email: confinfo at gnu.ai.mit.edu
>
>
>
Rodney Thayer :: rodney at sabletech.com
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