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The agenda for GopherCON '94 is set and the short version is listed
below. The next mailing has an agenda with abstracts of each of the
presentations.
Information about the conference is available via gopher. Use a gopher
to connect to gopher.tc.umn.edu port 70 and look in the
Information about Gopher
item for the
GopherCON '94
item.
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APRIL 22: Technical Tutorials and Forums
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Morning General Session
8:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome - Dr. D.R. Riley, Associate V.P. & Associate Provost,
Academic Affairs, University of Minnesota
GEN1 9:10 Gopherspace & the State of the Gopher
University of Minnesota Internet Gopher Development Team
10:15 Break
GEN3 11:15 Archie - Peter Deutsch
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon tracks 1:30 - 4:30:
Room 1: New Gopher Administrators
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NG1 1:30 - 1:50 Introduction to Gopher Protocol - Dave Johnson
NG2 1:50 - 2:15 Macintosh and DOS Servers - Dave Johnson
NG3 2:20 - 3:00 A Gopher Server for VMS: How to Cook your VMS
Gopher Server - J. Lance Wilkinson
NG4 3:05 - 4:00 Unix Server and Client - Paul Lindner
NG5 4:00 - 4:30 Public Access Clients, Security Issues - Paul Lindner
Room 2: Enhancing Content, Efficiency, Reliability
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EQ1 o Information Quality - Anders Gillner
EQ2 o Making Sense of Veronica's Words - Nancy John
EQ3 o Quality of Service - Mitra
Room 3: Developer Forum
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DEV1 An open forum discussion of gopher protocol and development
issues
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APRIL 23 Cool Gopher Applications
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Morning tracks 9:00 - 12:00.
Room 1: Cool Gopher Apps (Client, Server, and Service Show & Tell)
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APP1 9:00- 9:30 WinSock Implementation of Asynchronous Gopher+
with multiple sessions in Super TCP - John Xu
APP2 9:35-10:05 America Online's gateway to Gopher -
GUI gopher at 2400 baud - Mitra
APP3 10:10-10:40 Gofer = Gopher+ + Token-based Tree Maintenance and
Much More - Andrew Scherpbier and Mark Boyns
APP4 10:55-11:25 Gopher Access to Mainframe Based Administrative
Data and Class Rosters - Robert Cademy
APP5 11:30-12:00 The AskERIC Virtual Library: A User-Driven
Service - Nancy Morgan
Room 2: Even More Cool Gopher Apps
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APP6 9:00- 9:30 Minuet as a Gopher client - Earl Schleske
APP7 9:35-10:05 Meet GINA - A face you will love at
first sight - Keith Vogt
APP8 10:10-10:40 Blue Skies Gopher - Alan Steremberg
APP9 10:55-11:25 WSGopher: a Windows Gopher+ client - David Brooks
APP10 11:30-12:00 Gopher and the Mathematics Archives
- Larry Husch & Earl Fife
Room 3: Gophers of a Different Color
-------------------------------------
COL1 9:00- 9:30 K-12: Using Gopher as a Learning Resource
Server - Michael Stuve
COL2 9:35-10:05 Service Learning Across the USA: Establishing
a Service Learning Gopher - Charlie Bordreaux
COL3 10:10-10:40 Children, Youth and Family gopher servers
- Bob Rubinyi
COL4 10:55-11:25 Corporate Gophers: Schlumberger and its Information
GopherSpace - Rich Obrecht
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon tracks 1:30 - 3:45
Room 1: Still More Cool Gopher Apps
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APP11 1:30- 2:00 Jughead: A tool to search menus in your local
gopher menu space - Rhett "Jonzy" Jones
APP12 2:05- 2:35 Running a Consolidated Gopher and WWW Server
- Michael Potter
APP13 2:50- 3:20 Gopher Goes Interactive - embedding Usenet News
in Gopher - Stephen Trier
APP14 3:25- 3:55 Growing the MIT Libraries Gopher: subject
classification and team building - Keith Morgan
Room 2: Gophers of a Different Color (continued from morning session)
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COL5 1:30- 2:00 Library and Government Information via Gophers
Using LC MARVEL - Elizabeth Miller
COL6 2:05- 2:35 LegiSlate and Gopher - Ed Stawick
Room 2: Server Tools and Maintenance
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STM1 2:50- 3:20 UNIX Server Construction and Maintenance for
Mac Users - Michael Fraase
STM2 3:25- 3:55 Titling Menus with scripts and keystrokes (or
how to work with .names files and .cap directories)
- Paul Kramer
Room 3: Advanced Server Tools and Gateways
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ADV1 1:30- 2:00 Gopher to SQL Gateway - Paul Lindner
ADV2 2:05- 2:35 Gopher to Z39.50 1992 gateway - Danny Iacovou
ADV3 2:50- 3:20 Current Contents database on Gopher - Bob Alberti
ADV4 3:25- 3:55 Authentication & X.500 gopher gateway - Frank Grewe
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In addition to the scheduled sessions, rooms are available for informal
Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions all day Saturday. BOF signups wil be
held during day 1 (Friday).
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Morning General Session
8:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome - Dr. D.R. Riley, Associate V.P. & Associate Provost,
Academic Affairs, University of Minnesota
GEN1 9:10 Gopherspace & the State of the Gopher
University of Minnesota Internet Gopher Development Team
A look at where we came from and where we are going. How Gopher fits
together with other internet services, how Internet services will evolve
over the next year, new user interface metaphors for Gopher clients, and
significant recent developments in Gopher technology. Meet the new,
improved U of M gopher development team.
10:15 Break
GEN2 10:30 Searching Gopherspace with Veronica - Steve Foster
How VERONCIA has evoved over the last year and the growth in gopherspace.
VERONCIA future directions, how to make your server VERONCIA friendly, how
to run a VERONICA server.
GEN3 11:15 Archie - Peter Deutsch
Archie isn't just for anonymous ftp anymore! The latest release
of the Archie system provides a fully supported service for indexing
gopherspace. New features for this release include a direct gopher
interface onto the entire archie system, as well as the new indexed
collection of gopher menu items. In this presentation, Archie co-creator
Peter Deutsch presents an overview of the Archie system architecture,
details of the gopher gathering and distribution components, as well as
a discussion of initial implementation experience. Also covered will be
details on registering your site with archie, preparing prebuilt indexed
files, as well as an overview and discussion of the Bunyip gang's future
plans for the furry rodent (yes, Bunyip is going to be doing Gopher+,
attributes and other stuff, too).
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon tracks 1:30 - 4:30:
Room 1: New Gopher Administrators
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NG1 1:30 - 1:50 Introduction to Gopher Protocol - Dave Johnson
A quick overview of the Gopher and Gopher+ protocols. The intended
audience is new server administators who need to understand enough
of the gopher protocol to test their servers and clients.
NG2 1:50 - 2:15 Macintosh and DOS Servers - Dave Johnson
How to select hardware and software to set up a Gopher server
running on a PC (PC-DOS) or a Macintosh (Macintosh OS). Full text
searching on MacOS gopher servers.
NG3 2:20 - 3:00 A Gopher Server for VMS: How to Cook your VMS
Gopher Server - J. Lance Wilkinson
History of the VMS Gopher Server, followed by a tutorial on
installation of the VMS Gopher Server, version 1.2VMS-1, will
be presented. The intended audience is VMS system managers who
are about to, or have just become, GopherMeisters.
NG4 3:05 - 4:00 Unix Server and Client - Paul Lindner
Selecting hadware for running the Unix gopherd server.
Configuring and installing gopherd and the Unix gopher clients.
NG5 4:00 - 4:30 Public Access Clients, Security Issues - Paul Lindner
How to set up a public access vt-100 telnet client while keeping the
cheese and crackers to a minimum. Security issues with running a Unix
gopher server.
Room 2: Enhancing Content, Efficiency, Reliability
---------------------------------------------------
EQ1 o Information Quality - Anders Gillner
EQ2 o Making Sense of Veronica's Words - Nancy John
EQ3 o Quality of Service - Mitra
The quality of information and organization of gopherspace is
crucial to providing users with a useful information system. In this
session, the quality and reliability issues of Gopher are discussed
from three perspectives. This session will look at conceptual models
for information quality/organization, how to give the users what they
want (and some ways of determining what users want and like) and
operational issues for making gopherspace more robust and reliable.
Room 3: Developer Forum
------------------------
DEV1 An open forum discussion of gopher protocol and development
issues including:
Gopher+ protocol document
Attribute Registry
New Data Types
Gopher and URLs and URNs
and a presentation called
if (GView==Interactive_Image_Format) free (WWW);
by Alan Steremberg. This presentation covers the technology
behind Blue Skies, an interactive graphical gopher client. The
Interactive Image Format, a way of assigning hot regions to
graphics, will be discussed and proposed as the official GView
standard. Developers will receive sample IIF files, source code
to parse and manipulate IIF files and data structures, and
source code to decode GIF images.
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APRIL 23 Cool Gopher Applications
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Morning tracks 9:00 - 12:00.
Room 1: Cool Gopher Apps (Client, Server, and Service Show & Tell)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
APP1 9:00- 9:30 WinSock Implementation of Asynchronous Gopher+
with multiple sessions in Super TCP - John Xu
A Windows Gopher+ client that supports asynchronous multiple sessions.
APP2 9:35-10:05 America Online's gateway to Gopher -
GUI gopher at 2400 baud - Mitra
Pandora Systems has built an interface between AOL and the internet
that allows AOL's users to access the resources available through WAIS
and Gopher. Since AOL can be installed on a minimal machine, with a
2400 baud modem with almost no documentation, this represents
a huge step in making Gopher available to the non-technical population.
APP3 10:10-10:40 Gofer = Gopher+ + Token-based Tree Maintenance and
Much More - Andrew Scherpbier and Mark Boyns
Would you like to maintain your gopher server with a gopher client?
We will present the Gopher Maintenance Protocol (GMP) which allows
users to maintain their own Gopher trees without intervention of a
Gopher administrator. GMP consists of basic extensions to the Gopher+ protocol
which we hope to be adopted in future versions of Gopher+.
A brand new Gopher+/GMP client and server have been developed at
SDSU in C++. This project, code named Gofer, has produced a
high performance/low maintenance gopher implementation.
APP4 10:55-11:25 Gopher Access to Mainframe Based Administrative
Data and Class Rosters - Robert Cademy
Do you have a lot of data on a mainframe that you want users to be
able to access on their desktop workstations with tools they already
have? Using Gopher+ Ask blocks that's just what we've done at SDSU.
We import class roster information from our administrative mainframe
onto a Unix server and allow faculty to request their rosters, via
Gopher, in text or spreadsheet format, for Macintosh, PC, or other
systems. Issues such as ease-of-use, format type, electronic delivery,
and security will be discussed.
APP5 11:30-12:00 The AskERIC Virtual Library: A User-Driven
Service - Nancy Morgan
The AskERIC Service is a user-based approach to providing educational
information services and resources through the Internet. The
organization and development of resources for the AskERIC Virtual
Library, a Gopher/FTP site of selected resources for education and
general interest, is driven by the questions and comments received
by users of AskERIC.
Room 2: Even More Cool Gopher Apps
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APP6 9:00- 9:30 Using Minuet as a PC-DOS Gopher client
- Earl Schleske
Minuet is an integrated client that supports Gopher+, Netnews,
ftp, telnet, and SMTP/POP for e-mail. The most amazing part of
Minuet is that this single applications runs on 512K PC-DOS
systems. Sites that want to support internet access without
requiring user upgrades will want to consider Minuet.
APP7 9:35-10:05 Meet GINA - A face you will love at
first sight - Keith Vogt
A Graphical Interface for Network Access designed for easy access
to the Internet. A client/server interface for Mac/Windows that
provides email, conferences (usnet groups), and information (ftp,
telnet and gopher integrated) with easy point and click operation.
Developed primarily for K-12 classroom use with usenet group
selection capability.
APP8 10:10-10:40 Blue Skies Gopher - Alan Steremberg
Forecast: Blue Skies, chance of large rodents. Blue Skies is an
interactive graphical gopher client and an extremely powerful
data visualization tool. The University of Michigan Weather
Underground gopher servers has interactive images which
allow the user to point at part of the image for further
information. For example, selecting a city on a weather map would
give the current conditions for that city. Blue Skies will also
display quicktime quicktime animations, GIF and JPEG images, and
more. Server maintainers will learn how easy it is to create
their own interactive images!
APP9 10:55-11:25 WSGopher: a Windows Gopher+ client - David Brooks
WSGopher is an asynchronous, MDI Gopher+ client for Microsoft Windows
and WinSock 1.1. To support the user, it uses WYSIWIH (what you see
is what I have) and a full range of features including bookmark
\categories, printing with screen or printer fonts, print preview,
parallel TCP/IP connections, and much more. Come hear about this
popular client from the author!
APP10 11:30-12:00 Gopher and the Mathematics Archives
- Larry Husch & Earl Fife
The Mathematics Archives has as its goals as providing access to
all software and other materials which are available on the Internet
and which are useful in the teaching of mathematics at the community
college, college and university levels. We will discuss how gopher
has helped us in our attempt to reach these goals.
Room 3: Gophers of a Different Color
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COL1 9:00- 9:30 K-12: Using Gopher as a Learning Resource
Server - Michael Stuve
The UIUC Learning Resource Server (located at lynx.ed.uiuc.edu)
was one of the first Gopher servers to address the needs of pre-
and in-service teachers as well as K-12 schools in general. The
relevant K-12 resources of the server will be demonstrated. In
addition, our server is composed of resources provided by numerous
staff, faculty, and students within the College from local K-12
schools. This form of "distributed server management" will be
explained in the context of Macintosh file sharing on AppleTalk
networks. Finally, guidance on the design, setup, and management
of Gopher servers in K-12 settings will be provided.
COL2 9:35-10:05 Service Learning Across the USA: Establishing
a Service Learning Gopher - Charlie Bordreaux
Service-learning has been a major focus of the Clinton administration.
Our nationally-funded clearinghouse of K-12th grade service-learning
information is shared with the public via toll-free telephone calls
to our center, a FoxPro database containing information from the
field, and an InterNet Gopher server running on a Macintosh platform.
Our server will be demonstrated via Macintosh TurboGopher and
mainframe clients. As our server is still under construction,
future directions and Macintosh Server foibles will also be
discussed.
COL3 10:10-10:40 Building Gophers Collaboratively: Children,
Youth and Family Information Servers
- Trudy Dunham and Robert Rubinyi
Sharing electronic publications, newsletters, and
information about successful programs in the areas of children,
youth and family is the focus of two Gopher information bases
developed by the Minnesota Extension Service. Initiated in 1992,
the Minnesota Children, Youth and Family Consortium Electronic
Clearinghouse has grown to encompass a wide-range of materials
including census data, reports from nonprofit agencies, project
abstracts and online publications. The newly formed National
Extension Children, Youth and Family Network is a collaborative
effort of land grant universities in over forty five states to
share materials on child care, family resiliency, science and
technology education and interagency collaboration. During this
session, the planning, implementation and technical challenges
posed in the development of collaborative information systems
will be discussed.
COL4 10:55-11:25 Corporate Gophers: Schlumberger and its Information
GopherSpace - Rich Obrecht
Schlumberger has begun to implement Gopher in such a way that it can
distribute information across the corporation. Such information includes
things such as how to acquire an IP subnet, getting a DECnet node number
and name, telecommunications circuit acquisition, X.25 PSN Host and Line
configuration request, and access account requests. This is by no means
an exhaustive list and this list grows DAILY! Schlumberger is also
pursuing securing information such that only a subset of employees may
peruse the secure information (using Gshield). Standards have been defined
for 1st and 2nd-level menus such that ALL Schlumberger Gopher servers
have the same look and feel for the travelling employee. Indexing has
been implemented for global Gopherspace searching (using Jughead) and
specific server-based Gopherspace searching (WAIS and freeWAIS).
Schlumberger is EXCITED about information distribution using Gopher!
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon tracks 1:30 - 3:45
Room 1: Still More Cool Gopher Apps
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APP11 1:30- 2:00 Jughead: A tool to search menus in your local
gopher menu space - Rhett "Jonzy" Jones
Besides the local search feature, Jughead is also an organizational tool
allowing a hierarchical view of a gopher subspace.
APP12 2:05- 2:35 Running a Consolidated Gopher and WWW Server
- Michael Potter
Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a World-Wide-Web server
that integrates nicely with an existing Gopher server. The WWW server
allows access to information already stored in Gopher, and provides
hooks to take full advantage of the features of WWW and hypertext.
Organizations that wish to maintain information in a single form, but
serve both Gopher and WWW users, should be interested in the LANL
WWW server.
APP13 2:50- 3:20 Gopher Goes Interactive - embedding Usenet News
in Gopher - Stephen Trier
An innovative MS-DOS Gopher client with integrated Usenet and a
modified Unix gopher client that can link to Usenet. Both an
overview of the technolgy and a demonstration.
APP14 3:25- 3:55 Growing the MIT Libraries Gopher: subject
classification and team building - Keith Morgan
Do all gophers look alike? Should all gophers look alike? Keith
Morgan, Economics Subject Specialist and member of the MIT Libraries
Gopher Team will discuss the subject classification and team building
approach taken by the MIT Libraries gopher team. Morgan will
demonstrate MITosis, the Libraries gopher, and suggest methods by
which gopher builders might form collaborative alliances that draw on
the particular professional knowledge of librarians: an understanding
of how people search for information and how best to organize that
information. The MIT Libraries have employed a team approach to the
gopher that has united the organizational skills of cataloging librarians
and the evaluative and specialized knowledge of subject selectors with
the technical expertise of the systems office. Morgan will also share the
gopher team's "Guiding Principles for a Good Gopher" developed over the
past year.
Room 2: Gophers of a Different Color (continued from morning session)
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COL5 1:30- 2:00 Library and Government Information via Gophers
Using LC MARVEL - Elizabeth Miller
LC MARVEL (Library of Congress Machine-Assisted Realization of the
Virtual Electronic Library) can be classified as both a "library"
and "government" gopher server. In addition to the Library's own
information, LC MARVEL also offers easy and well-organized access
to government information (federal, state, international,
congressional, etc.) and to library information, online catalogs,
and library gophers. This demonstration will focus on using the
LC MARVEL gopher to access to this genre of information over the
Internet.
COL6 2:05- 2:35 Legi-Slate: Burrowing into the House and Senate
- Ed Stawick
A tour of the pilot-test Legi-Slate gopher servers and discussion
of how gopher can be used to access information on federal regulations
and bill in process in the House and Senate.
Room 2: Server Tools and Maintenance
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STM1 2:50- 3:20 UNIX Server Construction and Maintenance for
Mac Users - Michael Fraase
You don't need to know much about UNIX to construct and maintain a
UNIX-based Gopher server. This session is geared for Mac (or Microsoft Windows)
users with little or no UNIX experience who find themselves maintaining a
UNIX-based Gopher server. The good news is that you can
use familiar Mac (or Microsoft Windows) tools with a graphical
interface. You need not be burdened with the UNIX command prompt.
STM2 3:25- 3:55 Titling Menus with scripts and keystrokes (or
how to work with .names files and .cap directories)
- Paul Kramer
This presentation introduces a program that helps manage
.names files and .cap directories in a Unix gopher server. These
files/directories are used to title entries in the gopher server.
A public domain program called utree can be used to create,
edit, and manage these files and directories. utree is a
screen-oriented file system browser and file management utility
written by Peter Klingebiel. While running utree, the user can use
single keystroke commands and define new commands to perform tasks
specific to managing the .names files and/or .cap directories.
These features will be demonstrated in this presentation.
Room 3: Advanced Server Tools and Gateways
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ADV1 1:30- 2:00 Gopher to SQL Gateway - Paul Lindner
SQL databases have an explicit heirarchical structure than can be
mapped into Gopherspace very naturally. This sessions covers the
Gopher to SQL gateway for Oracle and Sybase SQL servers, and
demonstrates browsing, searching, and modifying SQL database from
Gopher+ clients.
ADV2 2:05- 2:35 Gopher to Z39.50 1992 gateway - Danny Iacovou
While Gopher has had a gateway to WAIS (an extension of the 1988
revision of Z39.50) for several years, Z39.50 has not been standing
still. The new 1992 revision of Z39.50 requires a new gopher gateway
and this allows for access to online catalogs. This session
covers the features of the gopher to 1992 Z39.50 gateway, how to
install and configure your own gateway, and a tour of some of the
library catalogs that are now accessible via Gopher.
ADV3 2:50- 3:20 Current Contents database on Gopher - Bob Alberti
The Current Contents database is a set of abstracts for academic
journals which is updated weekly. Current Contents is quite popular
at the University of Minnesota since it is easily searchable via
gopher and is an excellent way to scan journals for articles of
interest. The processes used to automate gopherizing the raw Current
Contents data is an excellent case study for gopher administrators
pondering how to publish masses of frequently changing information.
This session covers both the userUs view of Current Contents and the
system administration issues.
ADV4 3:25- 3:55 Authentication & X.500 gopher gateway - Frank Grewe
The University of MinnesotaUs online directory is an X.500 directory
which contains over 100,000 entries. Faculty, staff, and students can
use Gopher+ clients to change their entries in the X.500 database as
well as browse and search X.500. This session explores how Gopher+
forms and a gopher to X.500 gateway make it possible to update
preferred e-mail address, fax number, etc. in the directory.
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Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions all day Saturday. BOF signups wil be
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GopherCON '94 Information update.
Below is the preliminary schedule for the Gopher '94 Conference (and
registration information). Due to a couple cancellations, there are
still a few slots available for people who wish to make presentations
on cool gopher applications. If you want to make a presentation, please
send your proposal immediately to gophe...@boombox.micro.umn.edu.
We don't think we lost anyone, but if you already submitted a presentation
proposal and haven't heard from us, please get in contact with us as soon
as possible.
Day 1: Technical Tutorials and Forums
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Morning General Session
8:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome
Dr. D.R. Riley, Associate V.P. & Associate Provost, Academic Affairs
9:10 Gopherspace - State of the Gopher and the big picture
University of Minnesota Internet Gopher Development Team
10:15 Break
10:30 Searching Gopherspace with Veronica & Archie
Steve Foster and Peter Deutsch
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon tracks 1:30 - 4:00:
Track 1: New Gopher Administrators
o Introduction to Gopher Protocol
o Macintosh and DOS Servers - Dave Johnson
o VMS Servers - J. Lance Wilkinson
o Unix Server and Client - Paul Lindner
o Public Access Clients, Security Issues - Paul Lindner
Track 2: Enhancing Content, Efficiency, Reliability
o Information Quality - Anders Gillner
o Making Sense of Veronica's Words - Nancy John
o Quality of Service - Mitra
Track 3: Developer Forum
An open forum discussion of gopher protocol and development
issues including:
Gopher+ protocol document
Attribute Registry
New Data Types
Gopher and URLs and URNs
Day 2 Cool Gopher Applications.
-------------------------------
Morning tracks 9:00 - 12:00.
Track 1: Cool Gopher Apps (Client, Server, and Service Show & Tell)
o WinSock Implementation of Asynchronous Gopher+
with multiple sessions in Super TCP - John Xu
o America Online Gopher - Mitra
o Gofer = Gopher+ + Token-based Tree Maintenance and
Much More - Andrew Scherpbier and Mark Boyns
o Gopher Access to Mainframe Based Administrative
Data and Class Rosters - Robert Cademy
o Ask Eric - Nancy Morgan
Track 2: Gophers of a Different Color
o K-12: Using Gopher as a Learning Resource
Server - Michael Stuve
o Service Learning Across the USA: Establishing a Service Learning
Gopher - Charlie Bordreaux
o untitled - Nancy Morgan
o Corporate Gophers: Schlumberger and its Information
GopherSpace - Rich Obrecht
o Library and Government Gophers - Elizabeth Miller
12:00 Lunch
Afternoon tracks 1:30 - 3:00
Track 1: More Cool Gopher Apps
o Jughead: A tool to search menus in a given
gopherspace - Rhett "Jonzy" Jones
o Running a Consolidated Gopher and WWW Server - Michael Potter
o Gopher Goes Interactive - embedding Usenet News in
Gopher - Stephen Trier
o Growing the MIT Libraries Gopher: subject classification
and team building - Keith Morgan
Track 2: Advanced Server Tools
o Gopher to SQL Gateway - Paul Lindner
o Gopher to Z39.50 1992 gateway - Danny Iacovou
o Current Contents database on Gopher - Bob Alberti
o Authentication & X.500 gopher gateway - Frank Grewe
Track 3: Server Tools
o UNIX Server Construction and Maintenance for Mac
Users - Michael Fraase
o Titling Menus with scripts and keystrokes (or how to work
with .names files and .cap directories) - Paul Kramer
In addition to the scheduled sessions, rooms are available for informal
Birds-Of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions all day Saturday. BOF signups wil be
held during day 1 (Friday).
REGISTRATION
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The cost of the conference is $100 which includes lunch on Friday and Saturday
and the conference t-shirt. Registration for the conference is limited to 250
people, and only a few spaces still remain, so if you plan to attend please
register as soon as possible. To register, please provide the following
information:
Name:
Institution:
Position:
Tracks of Interest for Friday and Saturday:
Mailing Address:
Email Address:
Phone Number:
Fax Number:
Emergency Contact and Phone:
Hotel in Minneapolis where you will be staying:
T-shirt Size:
Number and Sizes of Additional T-shirts at $15 each:
Special Dietary Needs:
You may register via email to gophe...@boombox.micro.umn.edu or by phone at
612/625-9339. A check for the full registration fee and any additional t-shirts
must be received by April 8 to guarantee your space. Registrations received
after that date will be accepted subject to space availability and be charged
a late fee of $100. We are unable to accept purchase orders, credit cards, or
cash. Please make checks or money orders payable to the University of Minnesota
and mail them to the following address:
Gopher Conference Registration
Distributed Computing Services
University of Minnesota
152 Shepherd Laboratories
100 Union Street, SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
If you have any questions, please call 612/625-9339 or send email to
gophe...@boombox.micro.umn.edu.
The conference will take place at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. The Radisson Hotel is now full, but overflow hotel accomodations are
being provided by the Sheraton Minneapolis Metrodome. The Sheraton can be
reached at 1-800-777-3277. Please mention you are with the Gopher Conference
to receive the special conference rate. The Sheraton will provide a free
shuttle to the Radisson.
Airfare discounts are available through Carlson Travel
Consultants. They can be reached at 1-800-825-9190.
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Dori Navis " remember, if you can't convince them with
152 Shepherd Labs rational, logical arguments, there are always
100 Union St, SE small-scale thermonuclear devices..."
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612/625-9339 d...@boombox.micro.umn.edu
612/625-6817 (fax)