VanLUG Email Archive
Dave Michelson (dmichelson@home.com)
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:57:29 -0700
Hi, all.
Our next VanLUG meeting will be a bit of an experiment. First, we're
going to change the format a bit and feature a single major presentation
by a well-known UNIX expert. Second, instead of meeting at UBC, we're
going to have a joint meeting with the IEEE Communications Society at
BCIT. After the meeting, VanLUG attendees will be given a chance to
express their opinion (by secret ballot) concerning the desirability of
going back to UBC or continuing on at BCIT.
BTW, at the last steering committee meeting, we reviewed audience
feedback from previous meetings and concluded that people were most
satisfied with presentations that had considerable technical depth. Be
assured that you'll walk away from this meeting with a keen
understanding and appreciation for fax standards and technologies!
So, please come out to the meeting, listen to George's presentation, and
help us decide how to proceed. Your opinion counts.
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Vancouver Linux Users Group - June Meeting
joint with the
IEEE Communications Society (Vancouver Chapter)
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BCIT - IBM Technology Building (SE6), BC Tel Theatre
Mon, Jun 21, 1999, 7:30-9:00 pm
See http://www.linux.bc.ca/ for more information,
including transit schedules.
THE EVOLUTION OF FAX STANDARDS AND STANDARDS
George Pajari,
Director of Engineering - Faximum Software
Abstract
Much to the chagrin of Nicholas Negroponte, fax technology has become an
indispensible part of our modern world. This talk is intended for a
technical audience and will detail the evolution of fax communications
standards from prehistory through to the current store-and-forward and
real-time Fax-over-IP (FoIP) standards. Also covered will be the
parallel development of image compression algorithms and fax software
products including the integration of fax, email, and the web.
The nuances of fax nomenclature will also be discussed including: Group
3 vs Class 3; T.4 vs T.6; 1-D vs 2-D. Related questions such as "How can
I send faxes free over the Internet?", "Whatever happened to Group 4
fax?", and "Why Negroponte doesn't get it" will be addressed. One or two
of the fax software products that Faximum has developed for Linux might
be mentioned in passing.
About the Speaker:
George Pajari has been working with UNIX for more than twenty years and
set up the first commercial UNIX system in Canada in 1979. Before
co-founding Faximum Software, George worked as a UNIX consultant to such
organisations as Altos Computers, AT&T, BC Tel, EXPO 86,
Northwestern Telephone, the U.S. Navy, and The World Bank.
George is currently the President and Director of Engineering of Faximum
Software, a company dedicated exclusively to developing fax server
software for UNIX/Linux systems -- technology that has been OEMed by
companies such as Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. He is the author
of numerous articles on UNIX as well as the book "Writing UNIX Device
Drivers" commissioned and published by Addison-Wesley and since
translated into French and Japanese.
George is also a BJCP beer judge as well as a formally trained craft
brewer and has been nominated for membership to the Institute of Brewing
in London.
No-Host Dinner
You can also meet the speaker at a no-host dinner before the talk. Meet
us at 6:00 PM at Earl's, 4361 Kingsway in Burnaby. All are welcome, but
please let me know if you plan to join us so I can ask for a table of
appropriate size. For more information, please contact:
-- Dave Michelson dmichelson@ieee.org Tel: (604) 985-0214
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