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- Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT - OSF/Motif Week in Japan held on March 22-26, 1993]
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- OSF/Motif(tm) Team Visits Japan
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- March 22-26, 1993
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- (Each day will be Simultaneously Translated)
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- Speakers include: (Bio's follow after agenda)
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- % Bruce Kin Huie -- OSF/Motif Technology Manager
- % Ellis Cohen -- Principal Architect
- % Vania Joloboff -- Manager for User Environment
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- ________________________________________________________________________
- Target audience: First two days are tailored for business product
- managers and/or technology managers interested in learning current
- OSF/Motif technology and future activities. The latter three days are
- for technically oriented staff (e.g. application programmers and
- software developers.)
-
- The enrollment fee for one week entrance is $800 U.S. dollars. Each
- enrollee will be given an event pass. This pass can than be shared
- among other company representatives who have an interest in attending
- individual days.
- Agenda for the Week
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- Sessions begin each day at 9:00 A.M. and will end around 5 P.M.
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- Monday, March 22nd Asian OSF/Motif Licensee Meeting:
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- % Review of the current Motif 1.2 release
- % Outline the potential functionality under
- development
- % Review the two new initiatives:
- -GUI application Interoperability Architecture
- (GAIA)
- -Structured Graphics
- % Outline the goals for the "next generation" GUI
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- (First day speakers: Bruce Kin Huie, Vania Joloboff and Ellis Cohen)
-
- Tuesday, March 23rd Case Studies of OSF/Motif Adoption:
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- % Presentation from licensees
- on current and future usage of Motif
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- (Presenting: OSF/Motif Licensees)
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- Wednesday, March 24th Course:
- % Programming with OSF/Motif Widgets and the X
- Toolkit
- Technical Seminar (course profile follows speaker
- bio's)
- (Presenter: Ellis Cohen)
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- Thursday, March 25th Course:
- % Motif 1.2 Technical Update Seminar
- (course profile follows speaker bio's)
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- (Presenter: Vania Joloboff)
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- Friday, March 26th Course:
- % User Interface Design with OSF/Motif Technical
- Seminar
- (course profile follows speaker bio's)
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- (Presenter: Ellis Cohen)
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- Speaker Bio's:
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- Bruce Kin Huie:
- Bruce joined OSF from Bull Worldwide Information Systems, where he was
- product marketing manager for the Bull Professional Workstation
- Environment. He previously held positions in reseller channels with
- Bull, was a sales director and industry analyst with International Data
- Corporation (IDC), and a national sales manager with AT&T.
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- Bruce holds a B.A. degree from George Washington University and an M.S.
- degree from the University of Southern California.
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- Ellis Cohen:
- Ellis is the Principal Architect for User Interface Technologies at the
- Open Software Foundation. He initially came to OSF as a member of the
- industry review team that selected the technology base for OSF/Motif.
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- Prior to joining OSF, Ellis developed "rtl", a tiled window manager for
- X11(tm) at Siemens Research and Technologies Laboratories, where he also
- was the architect for a project developing CASE technology for
- object-oriented architectures.
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- Dr. Cohen received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon
- University in 1976, where he was one of the developers of Hydra, an
- early object-oriented multiprocessor operating system.
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- Vania Joloboff:
- Vania received a doctorate degree in Computer Science from the
- University of Grenoble, France. He has 15 years experience in software
- research and development.
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- Formerly, manager of the Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, he
- became manager of the User Environment at OSF (the OSF unit in charge of
- the Motif technology) in 1989. Vania is the accredited OSF
- representative to the X Consortium. He has been co-author of the X11
- Release 5 internationalization specifications and has published many
- articles in
- Europe and the US on user interface and document processing.
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- Enrollment Information:
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- Enrollment fee for one week entrance: $800 U.S. dollars
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- U.S.: Pacific Rim:
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- Phone: (617) 621-8780 Phone: +813.3479.4740
- Fax: (617) 6218781 Fax: +813.3479.4760
- Email: jane@osf.org Email: jim@osf.org
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- Wednesday-Friday Technical Seminar Course Profiles
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- Wednesday, March 24th
- Programming with OSF/Motif Widgets and the X Toolkit
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- Seminar Length: 1-Day
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- Summary:
- The "Introduction to Programming with OSF/Motif Widgets and the X
- Toolkit" seminar shows the experienced C programmer how to create
- sophisticated user interfaces by using the OSF/Motif and Xt programming
- libraries.
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- At the conclusion of the seminar, the student will understand the
- Motif/Xt programming model, be familiar with the Motif widget set, and
- be able to write Motif user interfaces incorporating menus and dialog
- boxes.
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- Topics:
- % Overview of OSF and OSF/Motif
- % Makeup of OSF/Motif
- % Basics of X and Xt
- % The OSF/Motif widget set
- % RHello, WorldS in OSF/Motif
- % Widget creation, realization, and mgt
- % Resources and their specification
- % Callbacks and event handlers
- % Building a realistic interface
- % Manager widgets
- % Text and list widgets
- % Compound strings
- % Resolution independence
- % Using UIL
- % Constructing menus
- % Using dialog boxes
- % Customizing mwm
- % Widget - mwm communication
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- Thursday, March 25th
- OSF/Motif Release 1.2 Technical Seminar
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- Seminar Length: 1-Day
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- Summary:
- The ROSF/Motif Release 1.2S seminar will provide the application
- developer, system support person or technical professional with an
- in-depth technical overview of the new features in the latest OSF/Motif
- release. The seminar describes many of the key enhancements important
- to programmers familiar with Motif 1.0 or Motif 1.1 Topics include:
- internationalization, drag and drop, and tear-off menus. The seminar
- also demonstrates many of the new features of Motif 1.2 using various
- demo programs, including view, xmmap, and cutpaste.
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- Prerequisites: Knowledge of OSF/Motif 1.1 or 1.0.
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- Topics:
- % Internationalization
- % Toolkit internationalization
- - ANSI C concept of locale
- - X11R5 background
- - Input methods
- - Text widget changes
- % Mwm and UIL internationalization
- % Drag and Drop
- - Presentation of the API
- - Drag and Drop and internationalization
- - Toolkit support
- - Code examples
- % Toolkit Enhancements
- - Tear-off menus
- - Focus management and traversal
- - Geometry management and layout
- - Resource management for representation
- types
- - Visual enhancements
- - CUA and Windows compliance
- - Specific widget enhancements
- % Mwm Enhancements
- - Window families
- - Tear-off menu support
- - Shape extension support
- % UIL Enhancements
- - Internationalization
- - Support of automatically created widgets
- - WML binary extension
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- User Interface Design with OSF/Motif
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- Seminar Length: 1-Day
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- Summary:
- The "User Interface Design with OSF/Motif" seminar is designed to guide
- developers in constructing a useable interface with the OSF/Motif
- toolkit. It describes the elements that contribute to a good interface
- design by showing examples of both good and bad interface design. The
- OSF/Motif Style Guide. Examples illustrate items from the OSF/Motif
- Level One Certification Checklist. Programmers are shown how to use
- features in the Motif toolkit as well as how to achieve OSF Level One
- Certification. The OSF Motif Style Guide and Certification Checklist
- are referenced throughout the seminar.
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- Prerequisites: User level exposure to graphical user environments
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- Topics:
- % Understanding design principles and philosophies
- % Providing consistency within an application
- % Ensuring inter-application consistency
- % Prototyping, testing, and redesigning
- % Designing and laying out an application
- % Using menus
- % Using dialog boxes
- % Enhancing the presentation of information
- % Providing feedback
- % Anticipating errors
- % Providing user help
- % Providing expert/novice interfaces
- % Providing for inter-application information transfer
- % Customizing
- % Designing with internationalization in mind
- % Certifying the application
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