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From: bobert@Autodesk.COM (Robert Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Mac Developers Conference
Message-ID: <3332@autodesk.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 91 02:29:48 GMT
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In article <50060@apple.Apple.COM> ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) writes:
>Well, it's hard to lock down the definite agenda for the whole WWDF
>conference a long time before. For your information there is a preliminary
>agenda, and each group assigned to activities in each technical area
>had meetings last week discussing the topics that will be presented
>during the conference. 
>
>So even if we can't make the definite agenda long time before, it's 
>also positive that we are able to fine tune the topics, so for instance
>issues that are very actual could be presented during the conference.
>
>I'm sure there's going to be more information agout the conference
>topics soon.
>
>Regards,
>Kent Sandvik, MacDTS/Apple
>
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It would be a big help if Apple would give some indication of the daily
agenda of the WWDC before the late-fee date.

Last year, I attended no sessions two of the five days of the WWDC because
nothing of interest to me was going on.  My experience the previous year was
similar.  Had I known at the time I registered, I could have saved my company
about $300 per day on registration fees, hotel rooms, and so on.

Fortunately, my company has enough money for this kind of thing.  Not
everyone does.  For example, this year, my girlfriend (a neophyte Mac
programmer) wants to attend - but since this would come out of our pockets,
we won't send in her registration until we see an agenda.  If this means
she doesn't go, so be it.

I understand how hard it is to come up with an agenda in a fast-changing
industry months before an event.  However, some kind of guide would be a
big help.

While I'm at it, let me lobby for my favorite WWDC proposed feature:
a technical fast track.  I swear, all of the technical information
presented in five days at the WWDC could be presented in two days if
the presenters didn't stop to explain things for the neophytes and
marketers in the crowd.  It would eliminate the 90% boredom factor I've
experienced the last two years.

Bob Murphy
bobert@autodesk.com