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From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM
Subject: EXPO: NeXTWORLD Expo BOF (Birds of a Feather) Meeting Schedule
Organization: Next Announcements
Approved: sanguish@digifix.com
To: All NeXTWORLD Expo attendees (User Conference, Developer
Conference, User Group Program, Exhibit pass only)
All NeXTWORLD Expo attendees are invited to attend the
Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Meetings scheduled for the late afternoon
and early evening of Wednesday, May 26th at Expo. The schedule
appears below.
Developers will be conducting a limited number of Birds-of-a-Feather
get-togethers on Wednesday evening, May 26, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Room reservations are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Email BOF@NeXT.com to reserve a room for your special interest group.
Please include your coordinator's name, an email address, and an
abstract of the session.
See you at Expo,
Conrad Geiger
International NEXTSTEP User Group Program Manager
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NeXTWORLD Expo BOF (Birds of a Feather) Schedule:
Wednesday, May 26, 1993
** Guerrilla Marketing for NEXTSTEP Developers **
5:00 - 6:00pm: Developer Conference Room 132
Organizer: Conrad Geiger, NeXT
This BOF session will cover the tactics for reaching the
NeXTSTEP users and potential NeXTSTEP users of NeXTSTEP and your
product. Working with user groups, the press, resellers, and
VARS/VADS will be the focus of this informal sharing of ideas.
** OPEN Protocols for NEXTSTEP (OPN) Organization **
6:00 - 8:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 130
Organizer: Marcos J. Polanco, The Research Libraries Group
While NEXTSTEP offers remarkable technologies for application
development, the full benefit of object orientation will not be
realized until the technical and political barriers to the emergence
of a vibrant object marketplace are tackled. These problems include
licensing, distributed object management, end-user objects, and
standards for inter-object communication. Open Protocols for
NEXTSTEP (OPN) provides a common forum where the entire NEXTSTEP
community can debate and resolve these issues. We will discuss OPN's
charter and focus.
** Sound, Music and DSP standards for NeXTSTEP/Intel **
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 131
Organizer: Michael McNabb, Independent Consultant
The original NeXT computers were embraced by a large community of
computer music and digital audio artists, researchers, and
developers. The machine's greatest appeal was that it provided a
common platform with a powerful minimum set of standard hardware and
software features, allowing a much greater exchange of work and ideas
than in the past.
NeXT's move to Intel hardware presents a great challenge to this
community. PC audio and music hardware standards do not really
exist, and NeXT itself will only be supporting a reduced set of
software standards. The community must now define its own set of
standards and supported hardware in order to preserve existing
capabilities, encourage development, and maintain interchangeability.
This session will include brief presentations from various
perspectives by members of the NeXT audio and DSP community, and a
face to face discussion of these issues.
** NeXT Means Business: How Can Developers Sell More? **
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 132
Organizer: Peggy Thompson, Paget Press
How can developers better reach the customer bases looking for NeXT
products? How can we work together more efficiently? Developers can
share success stories on how to get visibility for their products.
** IndexingKit SIG **
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 133
Organizer: Jack Greenfield, NeXT
Have you built an interesting data structure with IXBTree? Are you
wondering how to store a graph of objects in IXRecordManager? The
Indexing Kit BOF will provide an informal setting for the exchange of
tips and tidbits relating to the Indexing Kit. IXKit developers from
around the NeXT community will be in attendance, and IXKit author
Jack Greenfield will be on hand to share techniques, and to answer
your questions. Developers familiar with IXKit are encouraged to come
and share their experiences. Developers thinking about using IXKit
are encouraged to come and learn how the IXKit can help them with
their application.
** Virtuoso SIG **
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 120
Organizer: Lorin Rivers, Altsys
The session will feature a few advanced guest designers to lead in a
discussion of the different solutions that Virtuoso provides to
NeXTSTEP users. Each designer will discuss a different solution for
Virtuoso and NeXTSTEP, including:
Business graphics - presentations, corporate identity pieces,
business cards, annual reports, etc.;
Graphic design - creating infographics, logos, special effects,
product packaging, posters, etc.;
Page layout - Working with text, bringing files together into large
documents, creating newsletters, brochures, etc.
This will be an open discussion for users to openly discuss and share
information and techniques for using Virtuoso in their work. It will
also enable potential and advanced users of Virtuoso to learn new
tips and tricks. Door prizes will be awarded as well.
** NeXT in Law **
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 122
Organizer: Gregory Miller, Inherent Technologies, Inc.
This is the annual meeting for the NeXT-in-Law User Group, JuriNUG.
While JuriNUG convenes at other American Bar Association functions,
this meeting is a chance for anyone and everyone interested in the
use of NEXTSTEP in the legal profession to gather and exchange ideas,
discuss issues, and learn about this rapidly developing vertical
market. The meeting is open to anyone, not just legal professionals
interested in learning about the legal computing market.
If you have specific questions or have a particular item for an
agenda, please contact Greg Miller at 503-224-6751 or
gregory_miller@inherent.techlaw.com.
** Custom Applications Developed with Objective DB Toolkit **
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 123
Organizer: Valerie Birk, Logibec
The all new Objective DB Toolkit version 3 offers developers 4GL
capability with a script language that puts the development of custom
applications within the reach of any developer. The Toolkit also
offers an extensive choice of field templates, the possibility to
overlay views without the use of Objective C code.
The Objective DB Toolkit development environment is built on top of
NeXT's Database Kit which provides adaptors to Sybase and Oracle for
fast development of mission critical client/server applications.
** Incrementally Creating Apps at Run-time **
(OPN continued)
(The Other Half of Interface Builder)
7:00 - 8:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 130
Organizer: Charles L. Perkins
Many early NeXTSTEP developers were excited by the promise of
programming entirely within Interface Builder, creating a fully
interpretive, rapid prototyping environment with loadable palettes of
objects. Despite 3.0 additions, I.B. does not provide that
environment. The "other half" of I.B. must provide glue to link
arbitrary objects and NIB files together at run-time, and must allow
a rich set of possible connections between them without constraining
the meaning of those connections. If such a framework includes the
ability to modify the currently running application's state, entire
applications can be created at double-click time or even while they
are running, in an incremental and amazingly flexible manor. One
such framework will be presented, to stimulate discussion.
** Color Management for NeXTSTEP **
7:00 - 8:00 pm: Developer Conference Room 120
Organizer: William Bonekemper, HERE, Inc.
HERE's color management system benefits every NeXTSTEP user who needs
to produce calibrated and controlled color output. This session will
convey information and instruction concerning how the Color
Management System works and how to use it with NeXT application
software. This is accomplished through the use of live demonstrations
on a large projection system where NeXT applications are utilizing
HERE's Color Management System.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.