comp.lang.forth Frequently Asked Questions, part 6 of 6 Forth Groups & Organizations Bradford J. Rodriguez, 7 Feb 1996 We are currently seeking a volunteer to maintain this FAQ. Please contact Brad Rodriguez if you're interested. Please send additions, deletions, or changes to Brad Rodriguez in the meantime. ------------------------------ Subject: Table of Contents [1] Forth Organizations [2] FIG Chapters [3] Forth Conferences NOTE: this FAQ is in the early stages of construction. Contributions and suggestions are welcome. ------------------------------ Subject: [1] Forth Organizations Forth Interest Group (FIG) P.O. Box 2154 Oakland, CA 94621 USA telephone: 510-893-6784 (510-89-FORTH) fax: 510-535-1295 e-mail: johnhall@aol.com Membership in FIG is US$40 per year (before March 1st), plus an additional US$15 per year for foreign members. This includes a subscription to the bimonthly magazine Forth Dimensions. FIG holds the annual FORML conference. FIG-UK The UK Chapter of the Forth Interest Group publishes its own Forthwrite magazine 6 times a year, maintains an extensive lending library of books and periodicals (including Forth Dimensions, JOFAR and FORML) with a number of items on disk too. Meetings with invited speakers are held 4 times a year at the South Bank University, London. To join (at only 10 pounds a year, you can't afford not to :-) contact Doug Neale on 0181 542 2747 or by post to: 58 Woodland Way MORDEN Surrey SM4 4DS Institute for Applied Forth Research 70 Elmwood Avenue Rochester, NY 14611 USA telephone 716-235-0168 email: lforsley@jwk.com Publishes the peer-reviewed Journal of Forth Application and Research, and holds the annual Rochester Forth Conference. Association for Computing Machinery (SIGForth) ACM's Special Interest Group on Forth has been absorbed into ACM SIGPlan, the Special Interest Group on Programming Languages. ------------------------------ Subject: [2] FIG Chapters [This section is under revision. If you have information about an active FIG chapter, please send it to the FAQ maintainer.] CALIFORNIA North Bay Chapter Meets monthly, 2nd Sat., at BMUG, 2055 Center Street, Berkeley (1/2 block from Berkeley BART station). Tutorial at noon, meeting at 1 pm. Contact Leonard Morgenstern, 510-376-5241, . CANADA Southern Ontario Chapter Meets quarterly, 1st Sat. of March/June/Dec., 2nd Sat. of Sept., 2 pm, at McMaster University, General Science Building, Rm. 301, Hamilton, Ontario. Contact Dr. N. Solntseff, 905-525-9140 x.23443, . Maintains software library. UNITED KINGDOM see "FIG-UK" listing under "[1] Forth Organizations" ------------------------------ Subject: [3] Forth Conferences Rochester Forth Conference The Rochester Forth Conference is held in (or near) the Eastern U.S. every June. This year's conference, the 16th annual, will be held from June 19-22 at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The conference theme is "Open Systems" and papers are being solicited. Direct inquiries to the Program Chair, Nicholas Solntseff, . WWW page: EuroForth Conference The EuroForth Conference is held in various European countries, usually in late October or early November. The 1996 conference is scheduled to be held October 4-7 in St. Petersburg, Russia. FORML Conference The FORML Conference is held at the Asilomar Conference Center in California every November. Other Forth conferences have been held in Australia and China.