AUUG '95 and Asia Pacific WWW conferences combine

[Philip McCrea]

The AUUG '95 and the Asia Pacific WWW Conferences, which were being held at
the same time in different cities, have combined, and will be held at
Darling Harbour in Sydney on Sept 18-21 this year.  A press release follows.
I believe this will probably be the biggest IT event of the year - we're
expecting around 1200 delegates.

There will still be 2 programme committees, who will cooperate on paper
submission. The CFPs for both close May 15.   The AUUG CFP is at
http://www.pcug.org.au/auug/auugc95.html.   The Asia Pacific WWW CFP is at
http://www.csu.edu.au/special/conference/call.papers.html.

Cheers,
Phil McCrea
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Press Release

AUUG '95 and the Asia Pacific World Wide Web '95 Conference Join Forces

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sydney, 27 March 1995

The Australian Unix and Open Systems Users Group (AUUG) and Charles Sturt
University announced today that they have signed a memorandum of
understanding to stage a joint conference at Darling Harbour on September
18-21, 1995.   The conference and exhibition will be known as "The Internet
means Bu$iness", and will incorporate AUUG '95 and the Asia/Pacific World
Wide Web Conference '95.

AUUG President Dr Philip McCrea said, "The Web is an extremely important
phenomenon.  It opens extraordinary opportunities for information
dissemination, low-level publishing and customer service.   By combining
these two conferences we can offer AUUG members and the IT community at
large the opportunity of addressing all issues relating to the Internet and
the Web at the one time and the one place."

The conference series will retain two separate programmes with several
streams.   AUUG streams will cover the latest trends, standards, and issues
in the UNIX and open systems area, including network security, server
administration, distributed systems and case studies of successful migration
to open systems.   Web streams will look at the use of the World Wide Web in
research, development, practice, and the practical use of it to disseminate
information by education, government, business and industry.   This will
include sessions on information delivery and retrieval, HTML (Hypertext
markup language) and information security.

Professor Bryan Rothwell, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Charles Sturt University,
said "The multimedia capacity of the World Wide Web is rapidly changing the
way we work, learn and play.   The forthcoming Asia/Pacific World Wide Web
Conference is the first international meeting about this important new means
of communication to be held in this country.   It will also draw
international attention to Australia's role in the development of the
Information Superhighway".

Already the largest event for UNIX and Open Systems users in the
Asia/Pacific region, this years Exhibition, which is held concurrently with
the Conference, will also include the largest display of Web-related
computer and communications hardware and software ever assembled in
Australia.   This will be the first opportunity for visitors to see and
investigate all that UNIX, Open Systems, Internet and the Web have to offer.

Ends

For further information please contact:  
Wael Foda	(02) 332 4622

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