Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utteeth.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsstat!utteeth!jerry From: jerry@utteeth.UUCP (Jerry J. Deroo) Newsgroups: net.usenix Subject: RE: USENIX conferences Message-ID: <33@utteeth.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 13:16:23 EST Article-I.D.: utteeth.33 Posted: Fri Mar 2 13:16:23 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 21:17:55 EST Organization: U of Toronto Dentistry Lines: 38 Reidar Bornholdt brings some interesting points forward in <151@cucard.UUCP> I am a bit concerned over the discussion on this group of late, and where it is heading. What are the problems in holding a joint conference? Personally, I enjoy the mix of technical discussions and the commercial side of things which was presented in Washington. I ventured there, at my own expense, specifically to get a handle on where the *NIX market place was going. (Being in Canada does have some dis-advantages). If there is such animosity between the two groups, where is it coming from? Is it at the executive level? Or at the grass-roots level? I find it hard to believe that even the most dyed-in-the-wool technical person does not get a kick out of wandering about the vendor exhibits, if only to see how many systems they can break. I favour the type of joint conference that Washington was, where I could choose which session I wanted to sit in on. While *I* did not choose to partake in many of the /usr/group sessions, I did enjoy the ones that I went to. Fortunately, the concurrent USENIX seesions that I missed in this way were not that appealing to me. Is this a point of contention, trying to schedule concurrent sessions such that a minimum portion of the attendees don't have to make a real difficult descision on which of two sessions to sit in on? Acutally, I am wondering if three days are enough for the amount of presentations people want to make. The material presented at both Toronto and Washington was, on the whole, worthwile. I am against a separate conference in Dallas, unless my registration fee can get me into either without a hassle. -- Jerry J. Deroo, U of Toronto Dentistry { utzoo utcsstat}!utteeth!jerry