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               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
       [email protected]
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