From: gsk@world.std.com (Geoffrey S Knauth) Subject: Free Software Workshop, Moscow, 4/19-23 Date: 28 Dec 1992 17:43:06 GMT
[ Moderator's note: They might be interested in somebody giving a talk
about Linux. Volunteers? --Lasu ]
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>.
-- Geoffrey S. Knauth, Marble Associates, Inc. Member BCS-NeXT, LPF gsk@marble.com, (617) 891-5555 Standard Disclaimers