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- From: gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth)
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- Subject: Free Software Workshop, Moscow, 4/19-23
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:18:07 GMT
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- CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
-
- There is a conference on Free Software taking place in Moscow,
- Russia, April 19-23, 1993.
-
- The conference is hosted by SUUG, the Society of Unix User Groups
- (formerly the Soviet Unix Users Group), the Russian Center for Systems
- Programming, the Russian Chapter of the Free Software Foundation, and
- the International Center for Scientific and Technical Information.
-
- Participant specialists are coming from North America, Europe and
- Japan. We have just learned that Richard Stallman, founder of the
- Free Software Foundation, and recipient of the ACM Admiral Grace
- Hopper Award and MacArthur Fellowship, will attend.
-
- The main topics of the Workshop include:
- - the current state of the GNU project and other FSF projects;
- - "free" software means information freedom and sharing;
- - free software portability in Open Systems environments;
- - user experiences with free software;
- - free software in education and training;
- - legal aspects of free software;
- - relevance of free software to NIS modernization and democracy;
- - how NIS scientists can contribute to free software.
-
- Concurrent with the conference, there will be a small exhibition
- demonstrating free software in a networked heterogeneous environment.
-
- The conference encourages submissions of original designs, papers
- and ideas, and it welcomes the participation of computer and software
- companies.
-
- In the past, a conference of this kind has drawn 120-140 attendees
- from within the former Soviet Union, including 20-30 computer
- specialists, 60-80 enthusiasts, 20-30 persons from the commercial
- sector and members of the public. This year the turnout is expected
- to be larger, because there is great interest in free software among
- all kinds of programmers and users.
-
- The precise location of the conference will be announced in the
- coming months.
-
- For further information, you may contact any of the following
- members of the program committee:
-
- Name Telephone E-mail
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- Moscow
- Sergei Kuznetsov (Chair) +7 (095) 272-4425 kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su
- Peter Brusilovski +7 (095) 198-7055 plb@plb.icsti.su
- Dmitry Volodin +7 (095) 231-2129 dvv@hq.demos.su
- Boston
- Geoffrey S. Knauth +1 (617) 891-5555 gsk@marble.com
-
- Please send proposals for participation, paper abstracts and texts
- via e-mail to the Chair <kuz@ivann.delta.msk.su>.
-
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- Geoffrey S. Knauth, Marble Associates, Inc. Member BCS-NeXT, LPF
- gsk@marble.com, (617) 891-5555 Standard Disclaimers
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