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Item 1080883 93/05/14 10:23
From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: NeXTWORLD Expo BOF (Birds of a Feather) Meeting Schedule
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.
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