[H-GEN] Re: Heading towards a convention.

[Nickolas Kwiatkowski]

Ooops, I forgot to re-direct this to general ;)

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 14:51:15 +1000 (EST)
From: Nickolas Kwiatkowski <nickolas at fit.qut.edu.au>
To: andrae at humbug.org.au
Cc: Humbug Announce <announce at humbug.org.au>
Subject: Re: Heading towards a convention.

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Andrae Muys wrote:

> 
> Ok, head's up everyone.  I'm looking for volunteers to do
> talks/tutorials/presentations.  I'm also looking for suggestions for
> topics to be covered.  Current pencil date for submission of rough
> drafts/outlines is 11th July, although I'd appreciate any
> abstracts/outlines prior to this.  Submissions to be emailed/made
> avaliable to me in a non-proprietry format (so if you *have* to use MS
> Word, at least use RTF when saving the file).
> 

What topics or scope did you what to cover, Open Source, commerical usage
of free unix, OS specific details ?  Languages, like Java (write once,
test everwhere), www related items ?  Or as long as it connected to unix
or unix like systems it counts as a valid topic ?


> Also looking for a name :)
> 
> Currently it's just "The Humbug Convention", but I'm not that happy with
> it and looking for alternatives.
> 

What is in a name, "A Rose by any other name, is still a Rose" ;)

Nik

Nickolas Kwiatkowski                                       ph 61 7 3864 1290
Queensland University of Technology                  nickolas at fit.qut.edu.au
Brisbane, Australia                     http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/~nickolas/