_______________________________________________ MEMBERSHIP IN THE ANDREW CONSORTIUM _______________________________________________ The School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University has established the ANDREW CONSORTIUM to maintain and enhance the Andrew User Interface System (Andrew). The Consortium offers your organization the opportunity to participate in the development of Andrew, utilize the latest advances in-house, and undertake commercial exploitation with the active cooperation of the developers. Andrew is a compound document architecture combining a set of key interactive applications with an extensible, object-oriented toolkit for graphical user interfaces. Implemented in C++ under the X Windows System, Andrew features architectures for sharing window space, user interactions, data streams, printing, and communication between an object and its enclosure. Media types include: text, raster images, drawings, tables, spreadsheets, equations, animations, buttons, sliders, dials, and many others. Many objects can contain embedded objects. Andrew has been a part of the campus computing environment of Carnegie Mellon University since 1986. It has continuously evolved to remain at the forefront of multimedia information technology. Developed by the Information Technology Center as a joint project of IBM and Carnegie Mellon, the system is now widely used in research laboratories as a base for user interface development because of its open architecture and extensive set of existing high-level media objects, especially text. Several academic and business organizations have deployed Andrew as the user support environment for programming, document preparation, and document access. The system has also been a basis for a number of commercial products. The Andrew Consortium provides a comprehensive window into further development of the system. Members share up-to-date information and applications, develop technical expertise in creating Andrew media objects, and help shape the system's future. The efforts of the Consortium staff are directed toward: * increased quality in existing media, * enhancements, including a direct manipulation interface builder, * embedding of applications such as generic X applications, * increased potential for transition from Andrew to successor systems, * interoperability with standards such as Posix, Motif, C++, OLE, and SGML. The Consortium will from time to time distribute its source via the X Consortium, but on-going corrections and enhancements will be available only to members in the form of Andrew7.5 in C++. The current publicly available release, Andrew6.3 in C, is available via anonymous file transfer over the Internet. Annual membership in the Consortium is offered to organizations interested in exploiting Andrew technology within their operations or products. All members support the Consortium as it: * Enhances, maintains, and distributes the Andrew software base. * Conducts an annual meeting to review progress and set priorities. * Distributes a quarterly newsletter. * Monitors the info-andrew mailing list. The Andrew Consortium offers four levels of membership. (1) Associate Members enjoy: * Frequent source updates for internal use at one institution. * Non-voting participation in the Consortium's Annual Meeting. (2) Contributing Membership gives the additional opportunity for: * Redistribution rights to the code in non-source form for a nominal royalty fee. * Receipt of modest assistance in response to problems. (3) Full Membership provides: * Access to Andrew developers with further opportunities to learn how to exploit the system, understand its internals, and influence its future. Specifically, this includes these rewards. o All the benefits of Contributing membership. o Incorporation of member-specific changes into the central source, thereby minimizing efforts to import new versions. o Comprehensive education and technical support. o Direct contact with established experts in object-oriented graphic application development. o Voting rights in deciding Consortium priorities. (4) Participating Members are further entitled to: * Send their employees to work at the Consortium for extended periods. * Develop specialized enhancements with the aid of the Consortium staff. You are cordially invited to join us. Please contact our director if you would like to learn more about these exciting opportunities. Dr. Wilfred J. Hansen Director, Andrew Consortium School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 telephone: (412) 268-6788 facsimile: (412) 268-5571 email: wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu