Pi Special Interest Groups
Pi's SIG ecosystem launched in 1980 — by year-end, the masthead listed five active SIGs with chairs and phone numbers:
| SIG | Chair | Founded |
|---|---|---|
| SIGAMES | Alban Gass | April 1980 |
| NEWSIG (new owners) | Al Weiner | July 1980 |
| ASMSIG (assembly language) | Jim Rose | August 1980 |
| PascalSIG | Tom Woteki (Dr. Wo) | July 1980 |
| EDSIG (education) | Charles C. Philipp | November 1980 |
Also proposed but less formal: a Source Interest Group (Chuck Reinbrecht, January 1980), a Youth SIG (Michael Thomas, April 1980), MEDSIG, Greenapples SIG.
The August 1980 meeting introduced the parallel-SIG meeting format: short business meeting, then concurrent SIG sessions. This was Pi's structural answer to the "three audiences" problem (newcomers vs experts vs youngsters) that Bernard Urban articulated in June 1980.
How Pi has treated it
- 1980-01 — V02 N01 — Source SIG proposal
- 1980-02 — V02 N02 — Urban editorial calls for SIGs
- 1980-04 — V02 N04 — SIGAMES founded
- 1980-07 — V02 N07 — NEWSIG, PascalSIG, DOS 3.3 group buy
- 1980-08 — V02 N08 — NEWSIG and ASMSIG first meetings; parallel format launched
- 1980-11 — V02 N11 — EDSIG announced
- 1980-12 — V02 N12 — SIG chairs published on masthead
Related
- Parallel SIG Format
- Critical Mass