USENIX Sunsets Annual Technical Conference After 30 Years (usenix.org) 13
Since USENIX's inception in 1975, it has been a key gathering place for innovators in the advanced computing systems community. The early days of meetings evolved into the two annual conferences, the USENIX Summer and Winter Conferences, which in 1995 merged into the single Annual Technical Conference that has continued to evolve and serve thousands of our constituents for 30 years.
USENIX recognizes the pivotal role that USENIX ATC has played in the shaping of the Association itself as well as the lives and careers of its many attendees and members. We also realize that change is inevitable, and all good things must come to an end:
The last ATC will include both a celebration of USENIX's 50th anniversary on the evening of Monday, July 7, and a tribute to USENIX ATC on the evening of Tuesday, July 8.
Makes me a bit sad (Score:5, Insightful)
This makes me a bit sad, and makes me feel old.
I learned so much attending a few USENIX meetings in the mid 90s. I was late to using Linux on my own (I used HP-UX for my day job and that was enough) but heard so much about USENIX that I ended up duel booting Mandrake on my home PC and learned a ton.
I understand this has been less important as the world moves on, but I do miss the old days when Unix was king of the business and research worlds and grubby PCs and Macs were for the unwashed masses.
Now everybody uses Linux or BSD whether they know it or not.
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I ended up duel booting Mandrake on my home PC and learned a ton.
Who won?
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I ended up duel booting Mandrake on my home PC and learned a ton.
Who won?
Certainly not me.
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What sucks is that high quality conferences like this are disappearing. I don't want conferences showcasing the latest and greatest cloud based, exponentially-price-hiked, overcharging crap written by the lowest bidder programmers in the known world... I want conferences that actually are about relevant stuff, like what is useful and new in Linux, BSD, and other operating systems. Toss stuff about F/OSS programming, new stuff in the area, new utilities, maybe even different clubs or orgs, as well as stuff
Generational retirement (Score:2)
It's simply the retirement of the pre-internet generation who would be aged 60 to 80 today.
They had to close it (Score:2, Insightful)
because MAGAs read it as UNISEX and have an evangelical fit.
Re: They had to close it (Score:1)
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