German Unix User Group
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The German Unix User Group (GUUG) is a registered association of German Unix
users. The goal of the association is scientific research to promote technical development and communication of open systems which were initiated in particular by the operating system Unix. The association does not pursue acquisition-economical purposes. The consistent promotion of the operating system Unix led producer-independent systems to success. The support of this development was and is a goal of GUUG.
The GUUG organizes two annual conferences:
In February 2007 GUUG has started to organize the OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Berlin, together with CZOSUG the conference will be repeated in Prague, June 2008. Besides those conferences GUUG also offers for its members workshops for a variety of Unix and Open Source
topics.
Within GUUG there's a sage@guug community which like the American SAGE
acts as a professional association of system administrator
s. There are regular local meetings of sage@guug in the Rhine Main area, in the area Cologne/Bonn, in Karlsruhe, Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin and Hamburg. Membership of GUUG is not required to attend the meetings.
GUUG quarterly publishes the member magazine UpTimes with scientific papers about current IT topics, Unix system and network administration issues. The GUUG differentiates between promotion members (companies) and personal members. Students receive a discount.
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
users. The goal of the association is scientific research to promote technical development and communication of open systems which were initiated in particular by the operating system Unix. The association does not pursue acquisition-economical purposes. The consistent promotion of the operating system Unix led producer-independent systems to success. The support of this development was and is a goal of GUUG.
The GUUG organizes two annual conferences:
- The "spring discussions" (FFG) addresses professional system and network administrators, Unix developers. It's basically the members conference of the GUUG.
- The international Linux-Kongress is taking place in the autumn the largest European gathering of LinuxLinuxLinux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
kernel and other free softwareFree softwareFree software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
developers. The first Linux-Kongress was held 1994.
In February 2007 GUUG has started to organize the OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Berlin, together with CZOSUG the conference will be repeated in Prague, June 2008. Besides those conferences GUUG also offers for its members workshops for a variety of Unix and Open Source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
topics.
Within GUUG there's a sage@guug community which like the American SAGE
SAGE (organization)
SAGE is the USENIX Special Interest Group for Sysadmins, an international nonprofit professional association of system administrators.SAGE describes itself thus:Its goal is to serve the system administration community by:...
acts as a professional association of system administrator
System administrator
A system administrator, IT systems administrator, systems administrator, or sysadmin is a person employed to maintain and operate a computer system and/or network...
s. There are regular local meetings of sage@guug in the Rhine Main area, in the area Cologne/Bonn, in Karlsruhe, Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin and Hamburg. Membership of GUUG is not required to attend the meetings.
GUUG quarterly publishes the member magazine UpTimes with scientific papers about current IT topics, Unix system and network administration issues. The GUUG differentiates between promotion members (companies) and personal members. Students receive a discount.