Newsgroups: comp.org.decus Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!swrinde!gatech! europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com! charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!decwrl!pa.dec.com!crl.dec.com! decvax.dec.com!hall From: h...@xirtlu.zk3.dec.com (Jon "Maddog" Hall) Subject: Proposal for UNIX Developer's Conference at Anaheim DECUS Message-ID: <1994May28.004028.12902@decvax.dec.com> Keywords: UNIX, developer, conference, DECUS Lines: 65 Sender: use...@decvax.dec.com (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: xirtlu.zk3.dec.com Reply-To: mad...@zk3.dec.com Organization: UNIX Software Group, Digital Equipment X-Newsreader: mxrn 6.18-5 Date: Sat, 28 May 1994 00:40:28 GMT Two DECUS symposiums ago, there was an NT developer's conference. I am in the process of proposing a UNIX Developer's conference at Anaheim in December of 1994. My current proposal is: o Three full-day seminars: + UNIX Systems Administration in a Heterogeneous UNIX Environment + Programming for Portability + OpenVMS/UNIX Coexistance o Three week-long tracks (23-28 hours) of sessions that expand on these topics The seminars would be taught by paid presenters, who would be expected to have professional presentation materials, and eight solid hours of information. People coming out of the sessions should expect to be wringing with sweat over the amount of information (not data) hurled at them. I am proposing that Digital marketing would underwrite the hiring of these professionals, and help market these seminars (and DECUS in general) in UNIX trade publications. The week-long tracks would map and expand what was covered in the seminars, but to a much greater depth than could be covered in only eight hours. Some of those sessions will be two or three hours in length. The tutorial speakers would point to the sessions that cover certain topics as they went along. In all of the tracks we will stress to the session developers that they do more than just make up session notes. We should have bibliographies, and reprints of particular articles of interest. I will propose that Digital marketing underwrite the duplication expenses of any of these articles (including copyright expenses). Finally, BoFs would be set up to discuss some of the topics discussed in each day's seminars. The tutorial and session outlines below are the joint work of myself, Chip Carew (an employee of mine) and Richie Holstein (a DEC employee who did a lot of work between the hours of 1700 and 2200 one night). They are not final, and questions/additions/changes are welcome. Sharon MacDonald, the UNIX SIG counterpart, is taking these sessions and creating CFPs out of them, which we will then distribute to the USG engineers, UNIX SIG steering committee and DECUS membership at large to seek volunteers to develop. I will expect the DECUS board to be most generous in its allocation of compensation with regards to session fees for people doing two or more of these most intense sessions. We will continue to flesh out the tutorials, sessions and CFPs. Please let me know if you think I am on the right track, and if you have any additional ideas. I will be posting the ideas for the three groups of "Tutuorials and Streams" as separate postings, so people can comment on each in a separate thread. This is a full-court press. I welcome suggestions and comments. -- Jon "maddog" Hall UNIX Software Group, Base Product Mktg. Mailstop ZK03-2/U15 UNIX SIG Digital Equipment Corporation Internet: mad...@zk3.dec.com 110 Spit Brook Dr. Voice: 603.881.1341 Nashua, N.H. 03062 Fax: 603.881.6059 -- Jon "maddog" Hall UNIX Software Group Mailstop ZK03-2/U15 UNIX SIG Digital Equipment Corporation Internet: mad...@zk3.dec.com 110 Spit Brook Dr. Voice: 603.881.1341