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Internet Gopher Conference '94
sponsored by
The University of Minnesota
April 22 - 23, 1994
at the
Radisson Hotel Metrodome
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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The University of Minnesota is pleased to announce the Internet
Gopher Conference '94. The major focus of this year's "GopherCon"
will be:
- Bringing the new gopher administrator up to speed.
Much of the recent growth in gopherspace is coming
from communities new to the Internet, including small
colleges and secondary education.
- Showcasing interesting Gopher applications, including
clients, servers, tools, new subject areas (commercial,
K-12, etc.)
- A forum for gopher software developers to discuss
new gopher attribute types, administrative
tools, and new functionality.
We welcome folks from the gopher community who would like to make a
presentation, run a tutorial, showcase their application, or run a
guided tour of their service to do so. Conference fees will be
waived for presenters. For more information on presenting a
session please send e-mail to
[email protected].
The registration information and agenda follows:
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You may attend any track on either Friday or Saturday. If you
indicate in your registration information which tracks you are
interested in, it would help us provide appropriate space.
The cost of the conference is $100 which includes lunch on Friday
and Saturday and the conference t-shirt. Registration will be be
limited to 250 people. To reserve a spot for the conference, you
can register directly via email to
[email protected].
Please provide the following information:
Name:
Institution:
Position:
Tracks of Interest for Friday and Saturday:
Mailing Address:
Email Address:
Phone Number:
Fax Number:
Emergency Contact & Phone:
Hotel in Minneapolis where you will be staying:
T-shirt Size:
Number and Sizes of Additional Shirts at $15 each:
Special Dietary Needs:
You may register via email, however a check for the full
registration fee and any additional t-shirts must be received by
April 8 to guarantee your space. Registrations received after
this date will be accepted subject to space availability and be
charged a late fee of $100. We are unable to accept credit cards
or cash. Please make checks or money orders payable to the
University of Minnesota and mail them to the following address:
Gopher Conference Registration
Distributed Computing Services
University of Minnesota
152 Shepherd Laboratories
100 Union Street, SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
If you have any questions, please call 612/625-9339 or send email to
[email protected]
Hotel reservations for the Radisson Hotel Metrodome can be made by
calling the hotel directly at 1-800-822-MPLS. Please mention you
are with the Gopher Conference to receive the conference rate of
$69 for single occupancy and $79 for double. Rooms for the
conference are guaranteed to be available through April 7;
reservations after that date will be accepted based upon
availability. Airfare discounts are also available. Contact
Carlson Travel Consultants at 1-800-825-9190 to receive the Gopher
Conference fares.
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APRIL 22: Technical Tutorials and Forums
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Morning General Session
8:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome - Dr. D.R. Riley, Associate V.P. & Associate Provost,
Academic Affairs, University of Minnesota
GEN1 9:10 Gopherspace & the State of the Gopher
University of Minnesota Internet Gopher Development Team
10:15 Break
GEN3 11:15 Archie - Peter Deutsch
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon tracks 1:30 - 4:30:
Room 1: New Gopher Administrators
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NG1 1:30 - 1:50 Introduction to Gopher Protocol - Dave Johnson
NG2 1:50 - 2:15 Macintosh and DOS Servers - Dave Johnson
NG3 2:20 - 3:00 A Gopher Server for VMS: How to Cook your VMS
Gopher Server - J. Lance Wilkinson
NG4 3:05 - 4:00 Unix Server and Client - Paul Lindner
NG5 4:00 - 4:30 Public Access Clients, Security Issues - Paul Lindner
Room 2: Enhancing Content, Efficiency, Reliability
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EQ1 o Information Quality - Anders Gillner
EQ2 o Making Sense of Veronica's Words - Nancy John
EQ3 o Quality of Service - Mitra
Room 3: Developer Forum
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DEV1 An open forum discussion of gopher protocol and development
issues
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APRIL 23 Cool Gopher Applications
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Morning tracks 9:00 - 12:00.
Room 1: Cool Gopher Apps (Client, Server, and Service Show & Tell)
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APP1 9:00- 9:30 WinSock Implementation of Asynchronous Gopher+
with multiple sessions in Super TCP - John Xu
APP2 9:35-10:05 America Online's gateway to Gopher -
GUI gopher at 2400 baud - Mitra
APP3 10:10-10:40 Gofer = Gopher+ + Token-based Tree Maintenance and
Much More - Andrew Scherpbier and Mark Boyns
APP4 10:55-11:25 Gopher Access to Mainframe Based Administrative
Data and Class Rosters - Robert Cademy
APP5 11:30-12:00 The AskERIC Virtual Library: A User-Driven
Service - Nancy Morgan
Room 2: Even More Cool Gopher Apps
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APP6 9:00- 9:30 Minuet as a Gopher client - Earl Schleske
APP7 9:35-10:05 Meet GINA - A face you will love at
first sight - Keith Vogt
APP8 10:10-10:40 Blue Skies Gopher - Alan Steremberg
APP9 10:55-11:25 WSGopher: a Windows Gopher+ client - David Brooks
APP10 11:30-12:00 Gopher and the Mathematics Archives
- Larry Husch & Earl Fife
Room 3: Gophers of a Different Color
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COL1 9:00- 9:30 K-12: Using Gopher as a Learning Resource
Server - Michael Stuve
COL2 9:35-10:05 Service Learning Across the USA: Establishing
a Service Learning Gopher - Charlie Bordreaux
COL3 10:10-10:40 Children, Youth and Family gopher servers
- Bob Rubinyi
COL4 10:55-11:25 Corporate Gophers: Schlumberger and its Information
GopherSpace - Rich Obrecht
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon tracks 1:30 - 3:45
Room 1: Still More Cool Gopher Apps
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APP11 1:30- 2:00 Jughead: A tool to search menus in your local
gopher menu space - Rhett "Jonzy" Jones
APP12 2:05- 2:35 Running a Consolidated Gopher and WWW Server
- Michael Potter
APP13 2:50- 3:20 Gopher Goes Interactive - embedding Usenet News
in Gopher - Stephen Trier
APP14 3:25- 3:55 Growing the MIT Libraries Gopher: subject
classification and team building - Keith Morgan
Room 2: Gophers of a Different Color (continued from morning session)
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COL5 1:30- 2:00 Library and Government Information via Gophers
Using LC MARVEL - Elizabeth Miller
COL6 2:05- 2:35 LegiSlate and Gopher - Ed Stawick
Room 2: Server Tools and Maintenance
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STM1 2:50- 3:20 UNIX Server Construction and Maintenance for
Mac Users - Michael Fraase
STM2 3:25- 3:55 Titling Menus with scripts and keystrokes (or
how to work with .names files and .cap directories)
- Paul Kramer
Room 3: Advanced Server Tools and Gateways
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ADV1 1:30- 2:00 Gopher to SQL Gateway - Paul Lindner
ADV2 2:05- 2:35 Gopher to Z39.50 1992 gateway - Danny Iacovou
ADV3 2:50- 3:20 Current Contents database on Gopher - Bob Alberti
ADV4 3:25- 3:55 Authentication & X.500 gopher gateway - Frank Grewe
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In addition to the scheduled sessions, rooms are available for informal
Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions all day Saturday. BOF signups wil be
held during day 1 (Friday).
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