From owner-sc22wg5 Fri Mar 8 05:31:13 2002 Received: from taka.swcp.com (taka.swcp.com [198.59.115.12]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id FAA33004 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 05:31:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from walt@fortran.com) Received: from fortran.com ([208.1.33.168]) by taka.swcp.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g284ToC41961; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:29:50 -0700 (MST) Sender: walt@swcp.com Message-ID: <3C883D45.C67E5044@fortran.com> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 21:25:41 -0700 From: Walt Brainerd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeanne Adams , Jeanne Martin , Brian Smith , Dick Hendrickson , takata , joelrose , "larry.rolison" , lrolison , longb , jonathome , "Alistair.Mills" , "gerhard.schmitt" , "d.muxworthy" , terpstra , "Charles.M.North" , andrew_tait , jkr , LPMeissner , jls , Miles , Petek01 , pnkarculias , Jerry , WG5 Subject: J3 Reunion update 020307 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We got a pretty good response from the first mailing regarding a tentative J3 reunion, so it looks like it is a pretty definite thing. Mallory has reserved rooms at the Mariott for the Friday and Saturday before the 2003 WG5 meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and we have a meeting room for Saturday, 2003 March 29, so we have the whole day to do what you decide. First, let me apologize if you get this twice, as I want to keep a list of those who have responded, even those on the WG5 or J3 mailing lists. One of the main things I need is more contacts. Because of some of the hints you have given me, I have tracked down a few people, but I need leads especially to the "older" bunch. [ How much older can you get, you may ask ? ] The other thing is the schedule of events. I have received the following suggestions, most fairly vague, but interesting. If you would like to volunteer to take one of these and be responsible for creating something of it, that would be terrific. Jerry has taken the first step. He has created a Geezer Gallery with some quiz questions. Your first task is to try to get some answers and bring them to the reunion. I'll put a link on the reunion web site, but please have a look: http://www.ionet.net/~jwagener/oldGeezers.html Here are some more suggestions: hiking presentation of some classic papers (such as Bruce Martin's "Letter O considered harmful") a photo album (paper) available at the mtg (more contributions are needed) your first experiences with Fortran dinner cruise on the lake presentation by John Backus (anybody know where to find him?) an activity for spouses/friends a preview of F2K for those not involved in its development an IBM film about Fortran (does anybody know how to get this?) attend a Las Vegas show a Fortran programming contest for each standard, candidates for the 3 best features, worst features, hardest to implement features, hardest to teach features, etc. punch cards for name tags (where is John Lauer?) Keep the ideas coming and let me know what you want to do. -- Walt Brainerd +1-520-256-1455 The Fortran Company +1-520-760-1397 (fax) 11155 E. Mountain Gate walt at fortran dot com Tucson, AZ 85749 USA http://www.fortran.com