În perioada 30 septembrie - 1 octombrie 1993, la Cluj-Napoca, are loc conferința ROSE '93, organizată de Grupul Utilizatorilor Români de Unix (GURU), condus de Alexandru Rotaru.
Programul conferinței, în engleză, a fost:
ROSE '93 - general overview
ROSE '93 was organised on two tracks:
- technical conference hall
- demonstration area of the companies (18 companies)
ROSE '93 had 230 participants (this means proceeding owners) but arround 400 visiting participants in the 2 days.
The official languages of the conference were Romanian and English and all Romanian and French presentations were simultaneously translated into English.
Most of the debates were continued in the demonstration area.
The sessions of ROSE '93 were:
- Invited papers session, chairman: Alexandru Rotaru, GURU
- Networking papers session, chairman: Vince Hovanek, Sprint International
- Technical papers session, chairman: Michael Beier, SunSoft
- Free software session, chairman: Sergei Kuznetsov, SUUG
We invited Mr. Richard Stallman president of FSF to talk at ROSE '93 by a satellite link from Washington DC. Unfortunately at the last moment Mr. Stallman had an accident and he could not reach Washington for ROSE '93. Instead of this, his message was presented during Free software session, and a printout of GNU Manifesto from FSF, received from him for ROSE '93, has been distributed.
ROSE '93 - list of participants from other countries
Invited Papers
- Norman Bryga, UNIX Systems Laboratories, Manager for East Europe Some considerations about UNIX positioning
- Jeffrey S. Haemer, Canary Software, Inc. USA, President UniForum and USENIX representative at ROSE '93 Standards - A Overview of POSIX Standards
- Sergei Kuznetsov, Society of UNIX System User's Groups, Chairman, The Institute for Cybernetics Problems of Russian Academy of Science Free Software in Russia
- Michael Beier,SunSoft, Germany, Senior Account Manager, UNIX / Open Systems
- Marius Hancu, Parallel Architectures Group, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal, _Free UNIX for Romania - working for the programmer's freedom of choic_e
An excellent idea was to present the „free software drive” from the paper of Mr. Marius Hancu. This solved again a lot of informational barriers which still exist in Romania. The attendees could get the last status of this hard work which is in continue development. An offer from GURU was made for providing linux and other programms from the free software drive collection.
Technical Papers
- Shanliang JIANG and Anasser AG RGISSA - Departement Systemes et Reseaux Institut National de Telecomunications, France An Application of Unified Management of Heterogenous Networks
- Karim Foughali & Raouf Boutaba - Institut Blaise Pascal, University Paris VI, France Distributed Open Architecture for Tools Inter-Working
- Rajmohan Panadiwal and Andrzej Goscinski - School of Computing and Matematics, Deakin University, Geelog, Australia High Performance and Reliable Disk, Basic File and Transaction Services for a Distributed Environment
Technical Papers from Companies Representatives
- Michael Beier, SunSoft, Germany, Senior Account Manager, Solaris Multimedia
- Alain Prulliere, Directeur General, RTNS, France Definition des services offerts par ROMPAC
- Thomas Dornseifer, Garmhausen & Partner, Germany, Coordinator East European Sales SYBASE, Client/Server Arhitecture for the On-Line Enterprise
- Fandrich Harmlith, Dynatech Systems, Germany Dynatech presents a possible X.25 network for Romania
- John Riglar, COGNOS, England COGNOS - Application Tools for a Changing World
- Jerome Bring, Wind River Systems, USA Openness, Portability and Standards for Real Time Operating Systems
- John Fogelin, Wind River Systems, USA The VxWorks Real-Time Kernel
- Andre Germinet, Rene de Torsi France, R-DBMS a Link to the Future
Internet Connections at ROSE '93
During ROSE '93 two Internet links were provided by EUnet Romania and LOGICnet (a branch from Sprint International). All the attendees could reach any of the Internet services directly from the Conference hall. Also full e-mail services have been provided. Mr. Vince Hovanek, responsable for Europe at Sprint International was the chairman of the „Networking” session of ROSE '93.
ROSE '93 list of participants from Romania
- Marina Girju, Mihai Pop, N.Popovici - PUB Communication Center The Local Area Network at the PUB and the Central Communication Server
- Adrian Pasculescu, Madalin Popa - LOGIC LOGICnet - an Open network (towards Internet)
- Cristian Petrica - BEST (Romania) Interconnecting UNIX, Novell at Internet
- Bogdan Stoenescu - MDS-IIRUC SRL Communications between DOS and UNIX without Networking Cards
- Florin Paunescu - ComputerLand / Glossy Open Transactions
- D. Maiorescu, V. Gaftea, Gh. Gerendy - RENEL V. Bascoveanu, I. Chisinevschi, UNIX-ORACLE-WINDOWS L. Pasculescu, G.Iovu, M.Iovu Development Environment
- Radu Comsa - MICS Suceava GUI for Real Time Applications Computer Aided Design
- Nicu Oprea - KT Technology PHD in UNIX context. Character device drivers or bloc devices drivers
- Irina Botez - EWIR QNX - A Real Time Operating System
- Alexandru Panoiu - Trend Using National languages in HP-UX
- Trandafir Moisa - InterComp Solaris Multimedia
- Corneliu Holban - RBS An overview on IBM R/6000 AIX platforms
- Irina Athanasiu, Ioan Jurca - PUB and TUT Linux a solution for UNIX education
- Carmen Badica, Mihai Mocanu, Costin Badica - University of Craiova Kerberos - A Symetric Cryptosystem in Distributed Systems
UNIX Conferences in University „Politehnica” Bucharest
Mr. Jeffrey S. Haemer gave two conferences in University „Politehnica” Bucharest. Each conference was attended by more than 50 professors, students and other invited people from the tehnical departments of some computer companies settled in Bucharest.
- Why UNIX ? October 4, 14:00 - 17:00
- POSIX October 5, 9:00 - 12:00
ROSE '93 Sponsors and Support Teams
- Banca „Dacia Felix”
- Bull
- CIA - SM Invest
- ComputerLand
- Datasyst ITS Laser Realsoft
- Delta Airlines
- Dynatch
- EUnet Romania
- Expo-Transilvania
- Garmhausen & Partner
- IIRUC
- InterComp
- ITC
- KT Technology
- Logic
- Omnilogic
- PC Report
- PC World
- QNX Software Systems
- Radiotel
- RBS
- Scop
- Soft-tronik
- SOROS Foundation
- System Plus International
- Systems
- Trend
- UNIX System Laboratories
- Wind River Systems
A team of students from Technical Univesity Cluj, lead by professor Kalman Pusztai helped the organisers in many ways. They sorted and arranged the papers for proceedings, and were presented at the hotels, railway station and TAROM agency in order to be guides for the guests.
The SOROS Foundation Branch Cluj helped us in providing all necessary equipment for simultaneously translation. It was the first time when this instalation was used in Romania.
The IIRUC branches from Bucharest and mainly from Cluj suceeded in organising the whole flow of events: hotel reservation, transport of equipment and people in Cluj, registration area, distribution of the conference package to the attendees and other current tasks. This team was lead by Mr. Dan Barlutiu, IIRUC-Cluj and Mr. Alexandru Rotaru, IIRUC-Bucharest.
Special thanks to Mr. Adrian Ivanov, ITC Cluj and vice-chairman of GURU, who spended mostly all his time in helping to organise the whole event.
We also thank to Mr. Liviu Iftode for sending a presentation about „the history of UNIX in Romania” which was presented during the 1st day of ROSE '93.
If we forgot to mention somebody it is not because her (his) participation was not important for us.
Alexandru Rotaru GURU Chairman, Irina Athanasiu professor PUB