Date	: Sat, 22 Apr 89 14:08:50 EDT
To	: NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu
Subject	: Open Vista Association
From	: sun!dreamon.sun.com!scott%gotham.East (Scott Manville)
Sender	: sun!brillig.umd.edu!NeWS-makers-request (Don Hopkins)

Open Vistas Association, dedicated to the open systems philosophy
and to the promotion of window systems having intelligence, held 
its first meeting at Uniforum in February.  Our next meeting will 
be at the Baltimore Usenix.  (Anyone who would like to participate,
or exhibit in our--subsidized--booth, should contact me at the 
address below, or speak with the Grasshopper Group.)

OVA is an organization for all users of the forthcoming Unix System V
window system, X-11/NeWS; and all current users of NeWS and PostScript
technology.  OVA will offer a newsletter and bulletin board, an office
to contact for information and referrals, a technology distribution
service for products in the public domain--but most importantly, it will
raise the profile, both academic and commercial, of X-11/NeWS.

This PostScript-based technology is truly open, with at least seven active
vendors, over a dozen platforms, and over fifty licensees--even before the
release of X-11/NeWS.  (And there are certainly NeWS products I am not
aware of yet.  Please tell me what you have, and I will mention it in our
publications and discussions with the press.)

It is open to you, too.  Membership is extremely reasonable, with individual
and non-profit rates of $30, and a corporate rate of only $100.  For more
information, contact me, Scott Manville, at
	Open Vistas Association, 
	80 East 11th St.,
	Suite 222,
	New York,
	New York  10003.
	(212) 979 5337.