Updated BOF Schedule for San Francisco USENIX Conference
Kevin C. Smallwood
not appear below, contact me immediately. This is the complete
list of BOFs that I have as of today. KCS
December 30, 1991:
BOFS SCHEDULED TO DATE
Tuesday, January 21:
6 - 8pm Standards Peter Collinson
Hillside Systems
Back-up & Recover Across Ranga Rangachari
Hetergenous Environments Legato Systems
Electronic Frontier Foundation Jeff Kellem
Beyond Dreams
Rec.Aviation and UNIX Greg Rose
IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr
BayLISA Bjorn Satdeva
/sys/admin, inc.
8 - 10pm GNU Project (GNU's Not UNIX) Len Tower
Free Software Foundation
Open Meeting of the USENIX USENIX
Board of Directors & Candidates
Forum
BayLISA Bjorn Satdeva
/sys/admin, inc.
Wednesday, January 22:
6 - 8pm SVR4 Multi-Processing Design Mike Miracle
UNIX Systems Labs
Large Installation Systems Bjorn Satdeva
Administration /sys/admin, inc.
Digital ULTRIX Roger Masse'
DEC - OSRC
*6 - 7pm UUNET Rick Adams
UUNET Technologies Inc.
*7 - 8pm BSDI (Berkeley Software Rob Kolstad
Design Inc.) BSDI
8 - 10pm Chorus Operating System Lori Grob
Chorus systemes
Threads Now and Soon William Cox
UNIX Systems Labs
A Report on 4.3/4.4BSD M. Kirk McKusick
Univ. of CA - Berkeley
Cybrarians: WAIS/Archivists Simon Spero
Thursday, January 23:
6:30 - 8:30pm USENIX Reception At The Exploratorium
9 - 11pm GLBIC Lee Damon
IBM Research
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Abstracts
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Tuesday, January 21, 6 - 8pm:
Standards
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The standards BOF will discuss the current status of worldwide
standardization activities. Events from recent standards meetings will
be reported. People currently involved in standards work are actively
encouraged to attend and communicate their perspective on recent
events. Peter Collinson, USENIX Standards Liaison, will be in the
chair, assisted by Stephe Walli, USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
Report Editor. At the time of writing, several other standards people
have said they are coming. Should be fun.
Peter Collinson
usenix!uunet!hillside.co.uk!pc || p...@hillside.co.uk
+44 227 761824
Backup and Recover across heterogeneous environments
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Heterogeneous envrionments consist of not just different flavors of
UNIX, but are comprised of machines that use different operating
systems, different transport protocols, etc. The main focus of this
BOF is to discuss some of the main problems with backup and restore
across heterogeneous environments. The following topics will be
covered in this BOF:
- what are the main hurdles in implementing an enterprise-wide
solution for system and data backup.
- what are end users' needs and are they being met?
- what's an "ideal" solution from a system admin's point of
view?
This BOF is intended to be a forum for discussing these issues and
audience participation is strongly encouraged.
Tad Lebeck, Engineering Manager, Legato Systems
Ranga Rangachari, UNIX Product Manager, Legato Systems
ra...@legato.com
EFF
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EFF stands for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, founded in 1990 by
Mitch Kapor, John Perry Barlow, John Gilmore, and Steve Wozniak. It
exists to help civilize the electronic frontier; to make it truly
useful and beneficial not just to a technical elite, but to everyone;
and to do this in a way which is in keeping with our society's highest
traditions of the free and open flow of information and communication.
We work to protect Constitutional rights, such as free speech, free
press, and reasonableness of searches and seizures, for users of
computers. This BOF will discuss the current status of the EFF and its
activities, answer questions, and discuss suggestions.
We will give an update of recent EFF activities, an overview of cases
the EFF has been involved with and their outcomes, the EFF's missions,
current and future projects, etc. There will be a general question and
answer session at the end of the BOF.
Jeff Kellem, Beyond Dreams
comp...@Beyond.Dreams.ORG
+1 617 353 5344
Rec.Aviation and UNIX BOF
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There appears to be a good correlation between readers of Usenet news,
and aviation and space related interests. In this BOF, it is proposed
that the interested parties will explore further mechanisms for
utilising UNIX and Usenet to interact with other persuits. At the
moment weather maps and automated flight briefings are available, as
well as some amount of public domain flight planning software for
aviation. For space there are satellite and probe information updates,
orbital elements, solar storm warnings, etc. More could be done in
these areas, such as increasing the amount of software available,
thinking of novel applications of GPS, and so on.
The BOF is also expected to serve as a meeting place for people of
similar interests, sort of like a fly-in ...
Greg Rose
IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr
g...@watson.ibm.com
+1 (914) 945-1179
Tuesday, January 21, 8 - 10pm:
GNU Project (GNU's Not UNIX)
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This BOF is to discuss the current technical status of the GNU Project,
to answer questions, and give Project volunteers a chance to meet face
to face those they have worked with via electronic mail.
Topics will be the status of the GNU Project, new features on released
programs, future plans, etc. The floor is then opened for questions
and technical discussion.
Leonard H. Tower Jr.
usenix!ai.mit.edu!tower || to...@ai.mit.edu
+1 (617) 353-2780
Wednesday, January 22, 6 - 8pm:
SVR4.2 ES/MP Multiprocessing Design
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This session will consist of presentations and discussion by software
developers from UNIX Systems Laboratories and its industry partners on
the multiprocessing design of the SVR4.2 ES/MP kernel. Symmetric
multiprocessing software for tightly coupled UNIX systems is a well
known and maturing technology. There is considerable industry
concensus on multiprocessing paradigms such as spin locks and the need
for threads. This concensus is represented in the UNIX International
Multiprocessing Work Group Report. The SVR4.2 ES/MP kernel provides an
advanced multiprocessing implementation that is a consolidation of many
existing industry implementations with innovative extensions to the
SVR4 kernel.
The presentations will cover the approach taken in multi-threading the
SVR4.1ES kernel, algorithm changes for scalibility and performance,
process model extensions to support light weight processes, scheduler
enhancements, VM and VFS extensions for multiprocessing, parallel
streams, driver compatibility, and support for multiprocessing
debugging and performance tuning. Special emphasis will be placed on
the new and innovative aspects of this design and its extensibility to
future kernel architectures. Discussions on design approaches and
alternatives will be encouraged.
Michael J. Miracle
m...@usl.com
+1 (908) 522-6382
Large Installation System Administration
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This BOF will be separated into individual topics, with an short
presentation, followed by a discussion period.
If you have an item you want to present and discuss, send e-mail to
Bjorn Satdeva (bj...@sysadmin.com), or contact Bjorn at USENIX. Slots
will be assigned on a first come basis.
Bjorn Satdeva
uunet!sysadmin!bjorn || bj...@sysadmin.com
+1 (408) 241-3111
Digital ULTRIX
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Users or prospective users of UNIX (TM) on Digital Equipment
Corporation hardware, are invited to attended an informal technical
information exchange with DEC people representing the Customer Support
Center, ULTRIX Product Management, Technical consultants, and
ULTRIX-OSF/1 Engineers.
Roger Masse
decvax!decuac!roj || r...@dco.dec.com
+1 (301) 306-2719
UUNET (6-7pm)
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Topics: UUNET configuration, load history, load stats, future network
directions, recent Usenet events and issues, etc.
Rick Adams
ri...@uunet.uu.net
+1 (703) 876-5050
BSDI (Berkeley Software Design Inc.) (7-8pm)
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Berkeley Software Design, Inc. will discuss and demonstrate their ATT
free version of "Berkeley UNIX" for the 386/486 PC. BSD/386 is based on
the Networking Release 2 from CSRG, UC Berkeley
Rob Kolstad
kol...@bsdi.com
+1 (719) 593-9445
Wednesday, January 22, 8 - 10pm:
Chorus Operating System
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Chorus/Mix is a modular Unix running on top of a small real-time
nucleus. The Unix subsystem is broken up into servers which run in a
distributed fashion and allow dynamic reconfiguration of the system.
There will be a short presentation on Chorus and then an opportunity to
ask questions. Presenters: Michel Gien, Lori Grob and Jim Lipkis
Lori Grob
gr...@chorus.fr
+33 1 30 64 82 00
Threads Now and Soon
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Representatives of DEC, UNIX System Laboratories, Sun, OSF, and
Carnegie-Mellon will describe threads packages available now or in the
next year or so. The intent is to:
compare and contrast the packages
talk about POSIX Pthreads directions
discuss migration of code using early threads packages
respond to comments/questions from the audience.
Panel members will be people with architectural experience and control
of respective packages where possible.
(Most prospective panelists are involved in the POSIX Pthreads
standardization work, and are threads package architects as well.)
William Cox
bi...@usl.com
908 522-6385
A Report on 4.3/4.4BSD
----------------------
A summary of the current work at CSRG and a progress report on the new
capabilities added to the system and the progression towards the 4.4BSD
release. A report on what needs to be added to the unencumbered BSD
Networking Release 2 of June 1991 to make it a usable system.
Presenters: Mike Karels, Kirk McKusick, Keith Bostic
M. Kirk McKusick
mcku...@cs.berkley.edu
+1 (415) 843-9542
Cybrarians: WAIS/Archivists
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"Wide Area Information Servers answer questions over a network feeding
information into personal workstations or other servers. As personal
workstations become sophisticated computers, much of the role of
finding, selecting, and presenting can be done locally to tailor to the
users interests and preferences" - Brewster Kahle (Brew...@Think.com)
This BOF is for archive managers, users and implementors, and for
people interested in WAIS in general. Topics to include Archiving
Standards, the complete Usenet Archive (Larry Masinter --
masi...@parc.xerox.com), Electronic publishing, as well as all those
nasty little implementation details that get in the way. Presenters:
Simon Spero, Jeff Kellem (comp...@beyond.dreams.org) and Ed Vielmetti
(e...@msen.com)
Simon Spero
s...@techunix.technion.ac.il | s...@techunix.bitnet
+972-4-292658
Thursday, January 23, 9 - 11pm:
GBLIC
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The BOF is for "Gay/Bi/Lesbians In Computing" to discuss issues
relating to being gay/bi/lesbian in the workplace. Everything from
EEO/AA statements to berievement leave and spousal benefits. It is a
continuation of the GBLIC BOF at LISA V.
Lee Damon
no...@watson.ibm.com
+1 (914) 945-2137