From isaak@unix.ttb.dec.com Mon Dec 2 23:36:23 1991 Received: from decvax.dec.com by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA22178; Mon, 2 Dec 91 23:36:23 +0100 Received: by decvax.dec.com (5.57/decvax-27Nov90) id AA06392; Mon, 2 Dec 91 17:36:00 -0500 Received: by unix.ttb.dec.com (5.57/ULTRIX-fma-031291); id AA08436; Mon, 2 Dec 91 17:35:56 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Dec 91 17:35:56 -0500 From: isaak@unix.ttb.dec.com (Jim Isaak (respond via isaak@decvax.dec.com)) Message-Id: <9112022235.AA08436@unix.ttb.dec.com> To: wg15@dkuug.dk Subject: More details on NZ ... please send name/address info to Keith X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 [Below is a note in response to my questions sent to Keith Hopper about facilities, and such. Please note that he encourages EMAIL response to let him know who is coming (so he can send out information); and also he is looking for some help presenting POSIX information to local NZ experts; and at a UNIX Conference the week after the Meeting. THanks, for your responses; Jim] ============================== Return-Path: COMS0051@waikato.ac.nz Date: Thu, 28 Nov 91 16:13:22 -0500 To: isaak@decvax.dec.com Subject: WG15 May meeting Jim, Great to hear from you with some draft plans. We have not been idel here. You may be pleased to know that partly because of your accepting our invitation the SANZ has actually got its act together about IT standards generally. I have been elected (as SC22 referee) to our new IT Steering Committee and Roger Hicks is now chairman of our Software sub-committee. Just a couple of days ago that held its inaugural meeting and we formed three initial working groups ----- POSIX, Internationalisation and Software engineering. All I can say is thanks for your initiative -- it has helped locally enormously. Now let me address your concerns :-- a. All I need with regard to accommodation is individual names to whom we should send info (by airmail) -- fmailies would seem to be a one envelope posting, wouldn't they. All I need to know is how many warm bodies to expect. b. Copying is available all over the place from simple single sheet machines to multiple two-sided collating and stapling ones!! I am arranging for this to be freely available to the meeting, probably from the departments machine. c. Printing facilities --- we have PCL printers or postscript ones more or less coming out of our ears. I hope to arrange for a print server to be available in or close to one of the group meeting rooms (we are tentatively having one in a separate building (only 20m (yes twenty) from the others) which houses most options you might wish for. Fear not! All is in hand! d. We are proposing to organise an evening on the river for the 6th May (Wednesday) -- this includes dinner and drinks and music and seeing the sights --- with luck I will get someone to sponsor the cost. Now that plans are becoming less than tentative may I ask you a favour? There have been a number of suggestions that the New Zealand computing community may wish to try and take more advantage of the presence of so many experts in May. Specifically :-- + Would any individuals be interested in giving a seminar to really introduce the POSIX standards work to those who know relatively little (users rather than systems experts)? This could be before or after the meeting, of course. + Is anyone interested in presenting a paper at the Uniforum NZ conference 14-16 May in New Plymouth? Finally, just a matter of slight confusion on my part, but does your message imply that the RIN group are seven -additional- people to the twenty-odd you list under the total column?? --------- >>>> I assume RIN attendees will also be part of national delegations and as such the total meeting attendence is in the 20-25 range not the 27-32 range>>>> Jim ---------- Regards, Keith PS As soon as people let me know they are coming (e-mail preferably) with or without wife we'll start getting together an airmail pack for distribution in January. ================== RFC 822 Headers ================== Received: by decvax.dec.com (5.57/decvax-27Nov90) id AA28172; Thu, 28 Nov 91 16:13:13 -0500 Message-Id: <9111282113.AA28172@decvax.dec.com> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 91 10:12 +1300 X-Vms-To: IN%"isaak@decvax.dec.com"