Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!mark From: mark@umcp-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.usenix Subject: Re: USENIX conferences Message-ID: <5536@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 22:43:51 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.5536 Posted: Tue Feb 28 22:43:51 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 06:06:11 EST References: <150@cucard.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 11 In academic computer science, we have a trick for recovering the good old days of small conferences. It is to have "workshops", the price of admisssion to which is (among other things) a position paper on the subject of the workshop. This tends to weed out the mere observers/non-contributers. We could do this for a usenix conference, somehow, perhaps. Without something like this small conferences are hopeless. -- Spoken: Mark Weiser ARPA: mark@maryland CSNet: mark@umcp-cs UUCP: {seismo,allegra,brl-bmd}!umcp-cs!mark