Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!wiechman From: wiechman@athos.rutgers.edu (NightMeower) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Developers conference Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 90 12:59:33 GMT References: Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 32 In article es2q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Erik Warren Selberg) writes: > in dealing with whom to let into developers' conferences, I'd do this: admit > everyone, and hold it in different spots across the country (East, West, & > Central would be good). To me, using the rule "Whoever has it gets more" > puts all the upcoming developers (such as college bums like myself) out to > dry, which to my knowledge is the exact opposite of what Apple was founded on. Last year, when I was at the conference I was told that many of the Apple employees were volunteering there time to help make the conference a good and productive time. If you were to move the conference around the US or the world then much of the support would disappear. After all, San Jose is virtually in Apple's backyard. > I have lots of neat ideas for programs I'd like to do (and I can only think of > one of them as a game), but because I don't have the resources available to > I really can't implement them (I'm working with LSP on an SE w/ 1M & 20M HD), > so I do small stuff like mindless online shareware games for Mac BBS systems. > Like many myself included, you probably have a lot of great ideas but not enough time in one hundred lifetimes to do all of them ;-) Kevin -- =========================================================================== Kevin S. Wiechmann arpa: wiechman@rutgers.rutgers.edu This is only a test... for the next sixty seconds...