Call for papers

Stephen Johnson omnix@kdi.com
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:14:11 -0500


I'm trying to establish a repository for OS research.  I currently have
approximately 150 papers on various topics that I'm still trying to sort
out.  What I'm wondering is if you all can send me any "authoritative"
(ie-based on existing work or has been rigourously scrutinized)
documents.  If it's not too much, I would appreciate it if you could
help me classify the work.    Also, don't use spaces in the filename,
put underscores, hyphens or periods.  My convention has been to name the
file in the following format:
<Category>:<Description_of_work>.<language>.[thesis].<ps|pdf|tex|...>

Category is a single word abstract grouping.  Basically, if the paper is
specific to a current project (Choices, Fluke, Tunes, MACH, etc) then
that is the category, however, if it is not directly related to a
project (or is intended to be portable) then it usually falls under
Filesystem, Memory, Development, etc.  If it doesn't fall into one of
these then just use General, and hopefully I or someone else will find a
better grouping.  Finally, if you know it fits into more than one
category, let me know in the message, and I'll index it accordingly.

Description is usually a paraphrase of the document title, but as we all
have seen they get very verbose with their titles.

If a paper is a thesis, insert ".thesis" in the name.

Language is obvious, but if you send me something I can't read I won't
know what to do with it.  I can figure some of them out, but don't be
surprised if I confuse a few languages.

The type of file should be a common document format, and should be aptly
named.  Personally, I like postscript and pdf formats, but as long as I
can read it in Linux it will do.  Please don't send any MS-Word garbage.

But if that is too much work, I'll accept whatever you have, and try to
figure it out.  I just don't have that much time to read every paper
thoroughly.  I am learning some kewl shit though.

I know most of this is available online, but it's a bitch to find.  I
want to set up a web site, and help other OS developers find
information.

If someone asks, I will post a list of the files that I currently have.

Thanks in advance,

Steve "Omnix" Johnson