EXUG X Conference
Carolyn Carr
carolyn at usenix.ORG
Fri Aug 10 12:27:20 AEST 1990
X -- INTO THE FUTURE
European X User Group
CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION
24 -- 26 September 1990
University of Surrey,
Guildford, England
Three-day Conference, Vendor Exhibition, and ``Connectathon''.
Speakers include some of originators and principal architects of the X
system:
Jim Gettys
of Digital -- has worked on X and Project Athena since
1984, played a major part in the design of X11:
Keynote Speech.
Paul Asente
of Adobe -- designed and implemented the X toolkit:
conducting a tutorial, and describing X Server extensions.
Keith Packard
of the MIT X Consortium: use of the X Selections
mechanism.
Chris Peterson
of ICS and formerly of the X Consortium: editres -- a
brand-new interactive resouce editing system.
Tom Lestrange
(the ``T'' in TWM) of Solbourne.
Todd Newman
of Digital -- worked on implementing the first X
server.
PLUS papers on X terminals, PEX, user's experiences using X for
real applications, X development and tools, aids to porting and
migrating non-X programs, graphics tools, etc, etc.
TIMETABLE
Tutorials 24 Sept.
Conference 24--26 Sept.
Exhibition 25--26 Sept.
Connectathon 24 -- Sept
BOF's 24,25 Sept
EXUG'90 EXHIBITION
A major Exhibition is being held in conjunction with the
conference. This gives vendors the opportunity to show and
sell their products and services, and allow users to keep up
to date with the commercial market. For further information:
Tom Yeates
EXUG'90 Exhibition Coordinator
phone +44 256 843 333 (DEC, Basingstoke)
CONNECTATHON
The connectathon is held in parallel to the main exhibition.
The emphasis is on the networking and connectivity aspects of
X. It demonstrates what can be achieved with X and how it can
play an important role in providing a consistent environment
across machines of many different types, sizes and power.
FURTHER INFORMATION
The Secretary
EXUG
185 High St
Cottenham
Cambridge
CB4 4RX
England
tel: +44 954 51727
email: exug at unipalm.co.uk
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