The NEXTSTEP community will have double the chance to meet and exchange ideas as NeXT launches the first-ever East Coast Developer Conference in Washington, D.C. this month, and NeXTWORLD plans for the 1994 NeXTWORLD Expo in San Francisco on June 20Ð23.
Keynote addresses from Steve Jobs and Paul Strassman, former director of defense information for the U.S. government, will kick off the developer conference, which will be held January 24Ð26.
NeXTWORLD Expo '94 will return to Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
The three-day program will include conferences for NEXTSTEP developers and users, a product exposition, meeting of user groups, and a curriculum of NEXTSTEP tutorials. A call for panel participation was distributed in November. To apply, contact the organizers at NWX_94_conference@next.com or 508/470-3880. The East Coast Developer Conference offers four session tracks for NEXTSTEP information-system managers, system administrators, and developers.
One track, "NeXT in the Marketplace," gives managers an overview of the technical services and development opportunities under NEXTSTEP. "The Art of Design" sessions cover the principles of object-oriented design, while "A Closer Look" delves into NEXTSTEP's object kits and distributed objects. And "Hardware is Inevitable" explores the various hardware platforms that NEXTSTEP can run on, as well as system-administration issues. General sessions and tutorials fill out the program.
Registration fees for the East Coast Developer Conference are $595, and the tutorials cost an additional $200 per session. Attendees will also have the opportunity to purchase a $995 software bundle that includes the user and developer versions of NEXTSTEP 3.2, a single-user license to Borland's InterBase SQL database server, and the DBKit InterBase Adapter. For more information, call Digital Consulting, the conference organizer, at 508/470-3880 or 800/767-2336.