From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 5 16:44:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA24988 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 16:44:31 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA24983 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 16:44:28 -0800 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA05807; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 16:43:56 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199511060043.QAA05807@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Conference on Freely Redistributable Software To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 16:43:56 -0800 (PST) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20459.815613506@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 5, 95 03:18:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2215 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If I can get it going across my vacation, I think I could work up a paper on devfs... Also a paper on What's needed to get free Software into the corporate culture might be begging to be given (but not by me this time) Definitly a "Where FreeBSD is heading" is a MUST.... In a word "Dynamic" > > FYI.. Anyone care to submit a paper? I'm not sure I'll be able to > attend this one myself, though I'll certainly try. My calendar for > January and February is already looking pretty full! > > --- > From: peter@va.pubnix.com (Peter H. Salus) > Subject: CFP - Conference on Redistributable Software > Date: 5 Nov 1995 17:27:42 -0500 > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > First Conference on Freely Redistributable Software > > Sponsored by the Free Software Foundation > > 2-5 February 1996 > Cambridge, MA > > Over the past 15 years, free and low-cost software has become ubiquitous. > This conference will bring together implementors of several different types > of freely redistributable software and publishers of such software (on > various media). > > There will be tutorials and refereed papers, as well as keynotes by > Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman > > The Conference will be held at the Cambridge Center Marriott, > 2-5 February 1996. > > Papers are invited on any aspect of GNU, Linux, NetBSD, 386BSD, FreeBSD, > expect, PERL, tcl/tk, and other tools for which the code is accessible > and redistributable. > > Extended abstracts are due on or before Thursday, 30 November 1995. > > Authors will be notified no later than 8 December. > Full papers will be due Thursday, 4 January 1996. > > Program committee: > Peter H. Salus, chair > Robert J. Chassell > Chris Demetriou > John Gilmore > Marshall Kirk McKusick > Rich Morin > Eric S. Raymond > Vernor Vinge > > Abstracts of 350-750 words (in troff, PostScript, or straight ASCII, > only) should be sent to > conf96@gnu.ai.mit.edu > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Peter H. Salus #3303 4 Longfellow Place Boston, MA 02114 > +1 617 723 3092 > ----------------------------------------------------------- >