Become a SUG member today!


*  Vendor Discounts

*  Technical Conferences

*  Software Distribution

*  README Newsletter

*  Annual Exhibits

*  Local User Group Support

*  Electronic Mailing List

*  Newsgroup comp.org.sug 


Sun User Group, Inc.
1330 Beacon Street, Suite 315
Brookline, MA 02146
USA
voice: +1 617 232-0514		fax: +1 617 232-1347
office@sug.org 


Statement of Purpose

The Sun User Group, Inc., is an international, not-for-profit,
technical and professional association. Our members are users,
developers, programmers, manufacturers, and resellers of hardware and
software either produced or licensed by Sun Microsystems, or which
expands or enhances the capabilities of such equipment.  The Sun User
Group encourages communication of innovative research and development
of technology through its conferences, exhibits and publications.

The Sun User Group also serves as a distribution point for contributed
software in tape and CD-ROM formats.

The Sun User Group is incorporated in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts as a not-for-profit, educational, and charitable
organization. SUG is governed by a Board of Directors, each of whom
serves a three-year term.

Members receive:

	*  Software and  Hardware Discounts

	*  Discounts with leading technical publishers

	*  Discounts on conference registrations

	*  Bimonthly newsletter README

	*  Right to purchase contributed software

	*  Access to the Members-Only Electronic Mailing List

	*  Local User Group support

Membership is open to all interested individuals and costs:

	*  $40 per year 

	*  $55 if outside the USA

Additonally, membership benefits may be extended to employees of
sponsoring companies.  Please contact the SUG office at (617) 232-
0514 for more information.


Conferences

The Sun User Group sponsors one major conference each December in San
Jose, California. This Conference has a large vendor exhibit and
features a day of tutorials and several days of technical sessions.
The conferences are attended by members from around the world: the
1992 Conference was attended by over 4000 individuals from 24
countries, and 43 of the 50 United States and the District of
Columbia. We also provide tutorials and technical sessions at other
exhibitions and conferences around the world.

Past tutorials have included:.

	The Internet
	Basic and Advanced Systems Administration
	UNIX Device Drivers
	XView
	Migrating to Solaris 
	Writing Distributed Applications
	The Domain Name System
	Perl
	Mixed-OS Administration

The Sun User Group is dedicated to keeping in the forefront of Sun and
Sun-licensed technology.  Our tutorials reflect the changing interests
and demands of our technical and professional community. Technical
proceedings, containing written versions of most of the papers
presented at the conferences, are available for the past three SUG
conferences.

In 1993, the Sun User Group in cooperation with PCI, began the
SUG-East shows.  Like the annual SUG conferences, the SUG-East shows
feature three days of technical tracks, tutorials, and exhibits.  The
next SUG-East is in Boston, MA on July 27-29 1993.  For more
information about SUG-East, please call 1 (800) 727-EXPO or the Sun
User Group office.


Local User Groups

One of the ways of getting to know your colleagues is through a local
user group.  Local User Groups (LUGs) exist throughout the world.
Currently, there are LUGs in 25 states and 15 countries.  The Sun User
Group supports these local groups with listings, literature, a mailing
list, and organizational assistance.  Several international LUGs have
entered into formal arrangements with the Sun User Group to ensure
that their members receive README and other SUG benefits.


Periodicals

The Sun User Group publishes a bimonthly newsletter, README, which
contains technical articles, User Group news, and Sun Microsystems and
third-party vendor information.  README is also one of the ways
through which SUG keeps its members informed about new developments,
beneifts, and shows.  Submissions are encouraged, and may be sent to
readme@sug.org. Past issues included articles concerning superuser
privileges, domain name servers, and networks.

Sun User Group members are also entitled to receive monthly copies of
SunExpert magazine and Workstation News. 

SunExpert, published by Computer Publishing Group, serves the UNIX
workstation environment, emphasizing Sun, SPARC, and Sun-compatible
systems.

Workstation News is a monthly publication devoted to presenting the
latest industry information for the UNIX user.


Member Discounts

Sun User Group members are entitled to a variety of textbook and
training discounts from publishers.

* Addison-Wesley 	15% off books and training
* O'Reilly and Assoc.	10% off books
* Prentice Hall 	15% off books
* USENIX		30% off on Computing Systems

* Dataram 		up to 40% on memory modules
* Qualix Group 		15% on software purchases
* DUX Software		SimCity for more than 15% off
* Software Moguls	15% on SM-arch

We are negotiating with other publishers as well as with other
hardware and software vendors to offer further member discounts.


The Email List

For our members with electronic mail, the Sun User Group maintains an
electronic mailing list.  The mailing-list is available only as a
benefit of membership in the Sun User Group.  If your SUG membership
is not current you will not be placed on the mailing-list even if you
request it.

The list is a forum for the discussion of the needs of SUG members,
both from the user group and from vendors.  It also provides SUG with
a fast and easy way to alert users to new developments in user group,
such as new member benefits or late-breaking conference news.

If you would like to be added to the electronic mailing list, be sure
to check off the appropriate box on the membership application and
include a valid email address.  Alternately, you can send mail to
'member-request@sug.org'.


Software Library

The Sun User Group makes available public domain (unsupported,
donated) software.  In the past, there have been software tapes; in
1991, keeping in the technological forefront, SUG issued a CD-ROM.

The 1991 SUG CD-ROM contains 300MB of source code, fully-indexed
archives of Sun-related net postings, plug-and-play X11R4, compiled
Sun 4 binaries and nearly 200MB of Sun Micro- systems' software
patches.

The 1992.1 disk, which was assembled by Robert A. Bruce, has 543MB of
material, including X11R5, 212MB of contributed X sources, GNU
sources, libraries, SPARC binaries, and an archive of comp.source.X
postings.

The 1992.2 disk has nearly 650MB including more SPARC binaries,
resource materials, archives, patches, and source code not found on
previous disks.  For further information on any of our CDs, send email
to office@sug.org.





Sun User Group
Individual Membership Application

Mail, Email, or FAX the application to:

Sun User Group, Inc.
1330 Beacon Street, Suite 315
Brookline, MA 02146
USA
+1 617 232-0514

Email: office@sug.org		Fax: (617) 232-1347

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