As you may know for decades there is the non-profif SIG "Rexx Language Association (RexxLA)" that
maintains Rexx and Rexx related technologies, among them (in alphabetic order) NetRexx, Regina, ooRexx.
A short while ago RexxLA has changed their membership model such that interested persons can enroll
without having to pay any dues (cf. <https://www.RexxLA.org>, button "JOIN FOR FREE") anymore (but
are free to donate to help fund maintaining the necessary Internet infrastructure). The membership
is of course very Rexx-savvy, constructive and very helpful. Among the membership one can find e.g.
Mike F. Cowlishaw, the father of REXX, a very nice, extremely knowledgeable, always constructive
gentleman! RexxLA runs a membership e-mail list which is of low volume but of high quality. There is
probably no Rexx-related question that could not be answered by quite a few experts there, many
times even by the authors of these very technologies themselves.
One very interesting and helpful event that RexxLA organizes is the yearly "International Rexx
Language Symposium", this year it will be for the 33rd (!) time. Most symposia with their
presentations are archived there and can be therefore researched and looked-up. This year it will
take place once more online, between September 12th and September 14th, the planned dates are
probably favorable for those living in the United States. It used to be the case that there were
presentations about mainframe REXX related projects, ideas, problem solutions and products in the
past which are missing nowadays. So if you have something to share about your use of REXX on/with
the mainframe, about libraries, about problem solutions, techniques and the like, please consider to
offer a (maybe short) presentation about it for the upcoming Rexx language symposium! Watching this
e-mail list there are quite a few subjects that appear to be of interest for the REXX community. The
RexxLA homepage has the upcoming symposium and the call for presentations prominently placed there.
Here the direct link about the call for presentations:
<https://www.rexxla.org/document.rsp?base=events&year=2022&doc=cfp>. It would be great if the
tradition of mainframe REXX presentations could be revived! :)
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Prof. Dr. Rony G. Flatscher
Department Wirtschaftsinformatik und Operations Management
Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Gesellschaft
D2c 2.086
WU Wien
Welthandelsplatz 1
A-1020 Wien/Vienna, Austria/Europe
http://www.wu.ac.at
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