From tuhs at tuhs.org Wed Jun 3 16:57:40 2026 From: tuhs at tuhs.org (Greg 'groggy' Lehey via TUHS) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 16:57:40 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. Message-ID: Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. For over a quarter of a century, Warren Toomey has been running The Unix Heritage Society. What wasn't clear to everybody was that this was a one-man show, and that Warren paid all expenses out of his own pocket. In mid-April, Warren asked for donations to help run the site. The response was overwhelmingly positive, and the donation target (AUD 3,728, about USD 2,600) was reached within 24 hours. Thanks to all for your generosity. Now comes the hard part: who looks after this money? Behind the scenes, Warren has had a few helpers known as the "TUHS Team". We decided that the best way to protect your donations was to create an Association according to Australian law. The state of Victoria has the simplest rules, so we created The Unix Heritage Society Inc. in Victoria. TUHSI has purposes which are legally protected: to preserve and maintain historical UNIX artefacts, and to provide a forum for discussion of UNIX and its history. The cost to run the server will keep both the Unix Archive hosted (the artefacts) and the TUHS mailing list running (the forum). As a not-for-profit organisation, TUHSI must ensure that funds collected are spent only on the TUHSI purposes, and TUHSI must make public the details of how any funds are spent. The term “Inc.” has nothing to do with commercial companies. It's the form required by the Victorian government. The TUHS team will form the initial members of the association. Many will be well known to you. They are: Thalia Archibald David Arnold Kevin Bowling Clem Cole Dan Cross Matt G. (segaloco) Greg Lehey Warner Losh Larry McVoy Will Senn Warren Toomey Frank Wortrner On 30 May (23:00 UTC) we had our inaugural Annual General Meeting, as required by the Victorian rules. We elected the following officers: President: Warren Toomey Vice-president: Clem Cole Secretary: Greg Lehey Treasurer: David Arnold TUHSI is transparent, so we are putting all the relevant documents up at this location: https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/ This includes the association rules and by-laws, list of members, the agendas and minutes of all meetings, the treasurer's reports etc. The minutes of the recent AGM are at http://www.tuhs.org/Governance/Agendas_and_Minutes/20260530-inaugural-agm So now the Unix Heritage Society (i.e. you, the people on the TUHS mailing list) is supported by a legal entity (TUHSI, run by the TUHS team members) to ensure that your donations will go where you want them to go. What happens next? First, we find our feet. We're planning to upgrade the server infrastructure under the leadership of Dan Cross. For you, this means one thing will change: minnie.tuhs.org will not go away, but it will be the name of Warren's personal machine. There is a redirector in place, but if you're used to using this name, please choose to use www.tuhs.org (or just tuhs.org) instead. Every two months, Warren or David will e-mail the TUHS list with an update on what funds have been spent where and the current balance of funds. You can find a FAQ about TUHSI at https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/tuhsi_faq.html. If you have any other questions, please e-mail them to the TUHS mailing list, tuhs at tuhs.org, so we can answer them and/or discuss any arising issues/suggestions. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: not available URL: From tuhs at tuhs.org Wed Jun 3 22:29:21 2026 From: tuhs at tuhs.org (Douglas McIlroy via TUHS) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 08:29:21 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Great news! And the span of the board, from grizzled veteran to grad student foretells a robust long life for TUHSI. Doug On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 2:58 AM Greg 'groggy' Lehey via TUHS wrote: > Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. > > For over a quarter of a century, Warren Toomey has been running The > Unix Heritage Society. What wasn't clear to everybody was that this > was a one-man show, and that Warren paid all expenses out of his own > pocket. > > In mid-April, Warren asked for donations to help run the site. The > response was overwhelmingly positive, and the donation target (AUD > 3,728, about USD 2,600) was reached within 24 hours. Thanks to all > for your generosity. > > Now comes the hard part: who looks after this money? Behind the > scenes, Warren has had a few helpers known as the "TUHS Team". > We decided that the best way to protect your donations was to create an > Association according to Australian law. The state of Victoria has > the simplest rules, so we created The Unix Heritage Society Inc. in > Victoria. > > TUHSI has purposes which are legally protected: to preserve and maintain > historical UNIX artefacts, and to provide a forum for discussion of UNIX > and its history. The cost to run the server will keep both the Unix Archive > hosted (the artefacts) and the TUHS mailing list running (the forum). > > As a not-for-profit organisation, TUHSI must ensure that funds collected > are spent only on the TUHSI purposes, and TUHSI must make public the > details of how any funds are spent. > > The term “Inc.” has nothing to do with commercial companies. It's the > form required by the Victorian government. > > The TUHS team will form the initial members of the association. Many will > be well known to you. They are: > > Thalia Archibald > David Arnold > Kevin Bowling > Clem Cole > Dan Cross > Matt G. (segaloco) > Greg Lehey > Warner Losh > Larry McVoy > Will Senn > Warren Toomey > Frank Wortrner > > On 30 May (23:00 UTC) we had our inaugural Annual General Meeting, as > required by the Victorian rules. We elected the following officers: > > President: Warren Toomey > Vice-president: Clem Cole > Secretary: Greg Lehey > Treasurer: David Arnold > > TUHSI is transparent, so we are putting all the relevant documents up > at this location: https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/ This includes the > association rules and by-laws, list of members, the agendas and > minutes of all meetings, the treasurer's reports etc. > > The minutes of the recent AGM are at > http://www.tuhs.org/Governance/Agendas_and_Minutes/20260530-inaugural-agm > > So now the Unix Heritage Society (i.e. you, the people on the TUHS mailing > list) is supported by a legal entity (TUHSI, run by the TUHS team members) > to ensure that your donations will go where you want them to go. > > What happens next? First, we find our feet. We're planning to > upgrade the server infrastructure under the leadership of Dan Cross. > For you, this means one thing will change: minnie.tuhs.org will not go > away, but it will be the name of Warren's personal machine. There is > a redirector in place, but if you're used to using this name, please > choose to use www.tuhs.org (or just tuhs.org) instead. > > Every two months, Warren or David will e-mail the TUHS list with an update > on what funds have been spent where and the current balance of funds. > > You can find a FAQ about TUHSI at > https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/tuhsi_faq.html. If you have any other > questions, please e-mail them to the TUHS mailing list, tuhs at tuhs.org, so > we can answer them and/or discuss any arising issues/suggestions. > From tuhs at tuhs.org Thu Jun 4 02:21:38 2026 From: tuhs at tuhs.org (Heinz Lycklama via TUHS) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 09:21:38 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6c559f65-d07c-4fec-8a18-095aa9f1c46c@osta.com> Great news indeed! But thanks is also due to you Doug for your enthusiastic support of work on the UNIX System from the early days of UNIX at Bell Labs to continuing work by many UNIX researchers and UNIX companies in the computing industry over all these years. Heinz On 6/3/2026 5:29 AM, Douglas McIlroy via TUHS wrote: > Great news! And the span of the board, from grizzled veteran to grad > student foretells a robust long life for TUHSI. > > Doug > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2026 at 2:58 AM Greg 'groggy' Lehey via TUHS > wrote: > >> Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. >> >> For over a quarter of a century, Warren Toomey has been running The >> Unix Heritage Society. What wasn't clear to everybody was that this >> was a one-man show, and that Warren paid all expenses out of his own >> pocket. >> >> In mid-April, Warren asked for donations to help run the site. The >> response was overwhelmingly positive, and the donation target (AUD >> 3,728, about USD 2,600) was reached within 24 hours. Thanks to all >> for your generosity. >> >> Now comes the hard part: who looks after this money? Behind the >> scenes, Warren has had a few helpers known as the "TUHS Team". >> We decided that the best way to protect your donations was to create an >> Association according to Australian law. The state of Victoria has >> the simplest rules, so we created The Unix Heritage Society Inc. in >> Victoria. >> >> TUHSI has purposes which are legally protected: to preserve and maintain >> historical UNIX artefacts, and to provide a forum for discussion of UNIX >> and its history. The cost to run the server will keep both the Unix Archive >> hosted (the artefacts) and the TUHS mailing list running (the forum). >> >> As a not-for-profit organisation, TUHSI must ensure that funds collected >> are spent only on the TUHSI purposes, and TUHSI must make public the >> details of how any funds are spent. >> >> The term “Inc.” has nothing to do with commercial companies. It's the >> form required by the Victorian government. >> >> The TUHS team will form the initial members of the association. Many will >> be well known to you. They are: >> >> Thalia Archibald >> David Arnold >> Kevin Bowling >> Clem Cole >> Dan Cross >> Matt G. (segaloco) >> Greg Lehey >> Warner Losh >> Larry McVoy >> Will Senn >> Warren Toomey >> Frank Wortrner >> >> On 30 May (23:00 UTC) we had our inaugural Annual General Meeting, as >> required by the Victorian rules. We elected the following officers: >> >> President: Warren Toomey >> Vice-president: Clem Cole >> Secretary: Greg Lehey >> Treasurer: David Arnold >> >> TUHSI is transparent, so we are putting all the relevant documents up >> at this location: https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/ This includes the >> association rules and by-laws, list of members, the agendas and >> minutes of all meetings, the treasurer's reports etc. >> >> The minutes of the recent AGM are at >> http://www.tuhs.org/Governance/Agendas_and_Minutes/20260530-inaugural-agm >> >> So now the Unix Heritage Society (i.e. you, the people on the TUHS mailing >> list) is supported by a legal entity (TUHSI, run by the TUHS team members) >> to ensure that your donations will go where you want them to go. >> >> What happens next? First, we find our feet. We're planning to >> upgrade the server infrastructure under the leadership of Dan Cross. >> For you, this means one thing will change: minnie.tuhs.org will not go >> away, but it will be the name of Warren's personal machine. There is >> a redirector in place, but if you're used to using this name, please >> choose to use www.tuhs.org (or just tuhs.org) instead. >> >> Every two months, Warren or David will e-mail the TUHS list with an update >> on what funds have been spent where and the current balance of funds. >> >> You can find a FAQ about TUHSI at >> https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/tuhsi_faq.html. If you have any other >> questions, please e-mail them to the TUHS mailing list, tuhs at tuhs.org, so >> we can answer them and/or discuss any arising issues/suggestions. >> From tuhs at tuhs.org Thu Jun 4 03:11:00 2026 From: tuhs at tuhs.org (=?utf-8?q?Cameron_M=C3=AD=C4=8Be=C3=A1l_Tyre_via_TUHS?=) Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:11:00 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thank you everyone involved in this and getting things to this stage, and welcome TUHSI !!! Best regards to all, Cameron Sent from Proton Mail for Android. From tuhs at tuhs.org Thu Jun 4 03:50:54 2026 From: tuhs at tuhs.org (Briam Rodriguez via TUHS) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 13:50:54 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <90384ae3-5ce6-4167-8cc2-c681fe067952@gmail.com> Wow! this is great news! You are all benefactors of the community., Keep up the excellent work! -- Briam R. On 6/3/26 2:57 AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey via TUHS wrote: > Announcing The Unix Heritage Society Inc. > > For over a quarter of a century, Warren Toomey has been running The > Unix Heritage Society. What wasn't clear to everybody was that this > was a one-man show, and that Warren paid all expenses out of his own > pocket. > > In mid-April, Warren asked for donations to help run the site. The > response was overwhelmingly positive, and the donation target (AUD > 3,728, about USD 2,600) was reached within 24 hours. Thanks to all > for your generosity. > > Now comes the hard part: who looks after this money? Behind the > scenes, Warren has had a few helpers known as the "TUHS Team". > We decided that the best way to protect your donations was to create an > Association according to Australian law. The state of Victoria has > the simplest rules, so we created The Unix Heritage Society Inc. in > Victoria. > > TUHSI has purposes which are legally protected: to preserve and maintain > historical UNIX artefacts, and to provide a forum for discussion of UNIX > and its history. The cost to run the server will keep both the Unix Archive > hosted (the artefacts) and the TUHS mailing list running (the forum). > > As a not-for-profit organisation, TUHSI must ensure that funds collected > are spent only on the TUHSI purposes, and TUHSI must make public the > details of how any funds are spent. > > The term “Inc.” has nothing to do with commercial companies. It's the > form required by the Victorian government. > > The TUHS team will form the initial members of the association. Many will > be well known to you. They are: > > Thalia Archibald > David Arnold > Kevin Bowling > Clem Cole > Dan Cross > Matt G. (segaloco) > Greg Lehey > Warner Losh > Larry McVoy > Will Senn > Warren Toomey > Frank Wortrner > > On 30 May (23:00 UTC) we had our inaugural Annual General Meeting, as > required by the Victorian rules. We elected the following officers: > > President: Warren Toomey > Vice-president: Clem Cole > Secretary: Greg Lehey > Treasurer: David Arnold > > TUHSI is transparent, so we are putting all the relevant documents up > at this location: https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/ This includes the > association rules and by-laws, list of members, the agendas and > minutes of all meetings, the treasurer's reports etc. > > The minutes of the recent AGM are at > http://www.tuhs.org/Governance/Agendas_and_Minutes/20260530-inaugural-agm > > So now the Unix Heritage Society (i.e. you, the people on the TUHS mailing > list) is supported by a legal entity (TUHSI, run by the TUHS team members) > to ensure that your donations will go where you want them to go. > > What happens next? First, we find our feet. We're planning to > upgrade the server infrastructure under the leadership of Dan Cross. > For you, this means one thing will change: minnie.tuhs.org will not go > away, but it will be the name of Warren's personal machine. There is > a redirector in place, but if you're used to using this name, please > choose to use www.tuhs.org (or just tuhs.org) instead. > > Every two months, Warren or David will e-mail the TUHS list with an update > on what funds have been spent where and the current balance of funds. > > You can find a FAQ about TUHSI at > https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/tuhsi_faq.html. If you have any other > questions, please e-mail them to the TUHS mailing list, tuhs at tuhs.org, so > we can answer them and/or discuss any arising issues/suggestions. From tuhs at tuhs.org Thu Jun 4 12:59:22 2026 From: tuhs at tuhs.org (Warren Toomey via TUHS) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 12:59:22 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] President's Message: June 2026 Message-ID: First up, I want to say that it was a big decision for me to stop being the TUHS benevolent dictator and help set up a legal entity to look after TUHS's assets. Now that we have an incorporated association, TUHSI, the decision making and responsibility is now shared across all of the team members. Along with this is a promise to be transparent to you, the people who use the TUHS web site, the Unix Archive and the TUHS mailing list. I will strive, every month, to give you a wrap-up of what the TUHS team members have been doing. If I say "I", that's my personal opinion and not of the team. If I say "We", then this reflects the general team consensus. Now on to the actual report :-) Wow, so it's been a bit of a whirlwind since mid-April when I asked you for donations to help keep the TUHS server running, and you graciously gave way more than I needed in 24 hours. Thanks again. With the money sitting in the GoFundMe account, I realised that I couldn't just transfer it into my own bank account: that would allow me to go spend it on frivolous things and nobody would be wiser. I also realised, with my 60th birthday coming up, that it made sense to set up some form of official succession mechanism for the day when I am no longer able to look after TUHS. I discussed things with the TUHS team of volunteers, and I took the decision to set up a not-for-profit organisation, "The Unix Heritage Society, Inc.". The "Inc." here means that the organisation is officially registered in Victoria, Australia, and we must regularly report publicly on our operations and financial activities. Why Ausralia? I'm Australian and it was easier for me to set it up here. Why Victoria and not another state? Victoria allows non-residents to be public officers, whereas the other Australian states didn't. (I'll refer to The Unix Heritage Society, Inc." as TUHSI below). Thus, TUHSI achieves several objectives: + it legally ensures that your donations must be spent on the TUSHI purposes: to preserve and maintain historical UNIX artifacts, and to provide a forum for discussion of UNIX and its history; + it ensures transparency on the TUHSI operations and financial activities; + and it gives me a succession mechanism: I'm no longer a benevolent dictator and, when I'm no longer around, TUHSI will continue to exist and keep working on Unix's history. We just had the first TUHSI AGM a few days ago. You can find the agenda and minutes here: https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/Agendas_and_Minutes/20260530-inaugural-agm/ The most important action was to accept the nominations of the four public officers: + Warren Toomey as President + Clem Cole as Vice-President + Greg Lehey as Secretary + David Arnold as Treasurer I want to thank Clem, Greg and David for taking on these roles for the next year. You can find our legal roles and responsibilities in our Rules of Incorporation: https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/Rules/TUHSI_Rules.pdf We gave David Arnold the authority to set up a bank account for TUHSI, as your donations have been sitting in the GoFundMe account untouched since mid-April. More on this in a minute. Another AGM action item was to give Dan Cross the authority to work on the design and implementation of a new TUHS server infrastructure, with input from the TUHS team. The existing server is getting a bit outdated in terms of software and configuration, and I'm looking forward to a new system which is simpler to manage and which will have a smaller vulnerability surface. This was also the reason that I moved my personal stuff over to a separate server: the TUHS donations should not be spent on providing hosting for my own files and e-mails. At the AGM we discussed bringing in more team members to add to the existing twelve TUHS team members. Our overall decision was that we are still finding our feet as TUHSI, and we want to bed this new thing down first. That raises the question: who gets to be TUHSI members? As former benevolent dictator and now president, I took the decision that only the team of TUHS volunteers are the people who are members of the incorporated organisation. It means that we can run meetings with a handful of people, make decisions (mostly) quickly and get back to the volunteer work. The alternative would be to open TUHSI membership up to the general public. This would mean: + the Committee has to approve each new member, see Rule 11. We would probably be swamped with approvals. + We would have to deal with membership fees, see Rule 11(2). More work for the treasurer. + We would need to hold general meetings in real-time with dozens or hundreds of people in multiple locations, all trying to give their own opinion on how to do things, and then vote on motions. My decision might not be popular with some of you, but I believe that it is the best one to keep our volunteer work going with as little distraction as possible. Also at the AGM, I proposed a set of by-laws that would augment our rules of incorporation. I drafted most of these and the TUHS team gave valuable suggestions on the meaning and wording of all of them. They were accepted and you can read them here: https://www.tuhs.org/Governance/Rules/By-Laws.html You will note that there are no membership fees and that new volunteer members need to be approved by 3/4 of the existing membership. These rules are to ensure that we recruit volunteers who have a track record of good work and the existing team believe that they would make a good addition to the team. There are also some by-laws that make me somewhat special: my membership is permanent and I retain control over parts of the "tuhs.org" domain which I've traditionally used for personal activities. So these were the main outcomes of the AGM: public officers, by-laws, TUHSI members, work on obtaining a bank account and work on a new server infrastructure. Back to the bank account. Before the AGM I spent some time trying to figure out if we could set up business accounts with any of the Wise and Wise-like on-line groups. The basic answer is no: either they won't accept donations from GoFundMe or they don't want to deal with a not-for-profit organisation, or both the above. It seems likely that we might have to open an account with a more traditional bank. Hopefully we will have solved this by my next report! Apart from setting up TUHSI, there has been other work behind the scenes. Dan has taken the lead with the design of a new server infrastructure which will be more resilient that just the single virtual machine which we have at present. We will also host our own DNS zone rather that have our records hosted by a third party. In terms of deployment, the plan is to move the existing TUHS services over to the new system one at a time: static web pages, the wiki, the Unix Tree, then the mail system and the TUHS & COFF mailing lists. We will give you a heads-up when things are about to be migrated, and we are going to rely on you to tell us when things break :-) Also behind the scenes have been some actual TUHS volunteer work. There has been some reorganisation to the Distributions/UCB/ section of the Unix Archive at https://www.tuhs.org/Archive. We had some additions to the Unix Archive: + Distributions/USDL/Cloutier_USG_PG3 + Documentation/Languages/B_Language_Historic_Information + Documentation/Theses We have team members working on making some commercial releases of Unix publicly available, but this work is embryonic and I can't tell you the specific details as yet. The TUHS team have also discussed if we could leverage our new incorporated status to get us more legal protection in terms of intellectual property issues. For over 25 years, TUHS has effectively been a public museum of Unix software and artifacts. We have had many researchers, academic and otherwise, use our collection for their research work. It would be fantastic if, somehow, some of the Unix artifacts not covered by the Ancient Unix licence could be made available to researchers and/or to the general public under a legal framework. That about it for this, my first monthly report as TUHSI president. Please bear with us as we, this new organisation, find our feet. I look forward to reporting in with more results and work in progress in the next month. Cheers, Warren