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Internet Gopher Conference '94

sponsored by The University of Minnesota

April 22 - 23, 1994 at the Radisson Hotel Metrodome Minneapolis, Minnesota

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The University of Minnesota is pleased to announce the Internet Gopher Conference '94. The major focus of this year's "GopherCon" will be:

- Bringing the new gopher administrator up to speed. Much of the recent growth in gopherspace is coming from communities new to the Internet, including small colleges and secondary education.

- Showcasing interesting Gopher applications, including clients, servers, tools, new subject areas (commercial, K-12, etc.)

- A forum for gopher software developers to discuss new gopher attribute types, administrative tools, and new functionality.

We welcome folks from the gopher community who would like to make a presentation, run a tutorial, showcase their application, or run a guided tour of their service to do so. Conference fees will be waived for presenters. For more information on presenting a session please send e-mail to gopher94@boombox.micro.umn.edu.

The registration information and agenda follows:

__________________________________________________ You may attend any track on either Friday or Saturday. If you indicate in your registration information which tracks you are interested in, it would help us provide appropriate space.

The cost of the conference is $100 which includes lunch on Friday and Saturday and the conference t-shirt. Registration will be be limited to 250 people. To reserve a spot for the conference, you can register directly via email to gopher94@boombox.micro.umn.edu. 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 & Phone: Hotel in Minneapolis where you will be staying: T-shirt Size: Number and Sizes of Additional Shirts at $15 each: Special Dietary Needs:

You may register via email, however 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 this date will be accepted subject to space availability and be charged a late fee of $100. We are unable to accept 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 gopher94@boombox.micro.umn.edu

Hotel reservations for the Radisson Hotel Metrodome can be made by calling the hotel directly at 1-800-822-MPLS. Please mention you are with the Gopher Conference to receive the conference rate of $69 for single occupancy and $79 for double. Rooms for the conference are guaranteed to be available through April 7; reservations after that date will be accepted based upon availability. Airfare discounts are also available. Contact Carlson Travel Consultants at 1-800-825-9190 to receive the Gopher Conference fares. __________________________________________________________________

========================================= APRIL 22: Technical Tutorials and Forums ----------------------------------------

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 ---------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------ DEV1 An open forum discussion of gopher protocol and development issues

----------------------------------- APRIL 23 Cool Gopher Applications ----------------------------------- 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 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 ------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------ 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------- 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

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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). ------------------------------------------------------------------------