The conference looks supremely uninteresting outside one WAFL talk to me.
Is there a way to participate without attending Usenix ATC?
On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 3:33 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Sorry for the long delay on this notice, but until
this weekend there were
still a few things to iron out before I made a broad announcement.
First, I want to thank the wonderful folks at the Living Computers Museum
and Labs <https://livingcomputers.org/> who are set up to host an event
at their museum for our members on the evening of July 10, which is during
the week of USENIX ATC. To quote an email from their Curator, Aaron
Alcorn: "*an easy-going members events with USENIX attendees as their
special invited guests.*" As Aaron suggested, this event will just be
computer people and computers, which seems fitting and a good match ;-)
Our desire is to have as many of the old and new 'UNIX folks' at this
event as possible and we can share stories of how our community got to
where we are. Please spread the word, since we want to get as many people
coming and sharing as we can. BTW: The Museum is hoping to have their
refurbished PDP-7 running by that date. A couple of us on this list will
be bringing a kit of SW in the hopes that we can boot Unix V0!!
Second, USENIX BOD will provide us a room at ATC all week long to set up
equipment and show off some things our community has done in the past. I
have been in contact with some of you offline and will continue to do so.
There should be some smaller historical systems that people will bring
(plus connections to the LCM's systems via the Internet, of course) and
there will be some RPi's running different emulators.
I do hope that both the event and the computer room should be fun for all.
Thanks,
Clem Cole