Re: WWDC sold out, WOWODC hotel booking for weekend or streaming?
Re: WWDC sold out, WOWODC hotel booking for weekend or streaming?
- Subject: Re: WWDC sold out, WOWODC hotel booking for weekend or streaming?
- From: Mike Schrag <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:48:32 -0400
I don't think the nature of WOWODC has been made clear enough. At
WWDC, you would maybe get, what, 2 hours at most of WO content, and
that's only if Apple decides to throw us a pathetic bone? At this
point, we don't even know if there will be ANY WebObjects content at
WWDC (I hope so, but there's still nothing on the schedule). So if you
were into iPhone stuff, then I agree that not having access to WWDC
sort of sucks.
On the flip side, WOWODC has something like 17 hours of content. If
you're looking for WO content, though, I can say that there is
literally no better place in the world to get it than these two days.
This is the best group of WO people I have seen in a single place,
ever (maybe years-ago-WWDC's are the only thing comparable). We've
got almost every notable community member speaking and we've got two
confirmed senior level Apple employees, one from MobileMe and one from
Apple Online Store, presenting. As if this wasn't enough (which it
is), we have at least three more really cool I-can-only-make-
insinuations-but-you-can't-depend-on-this-because-it's-not-officially-
approved-so-it-can't-be-announced-for-real-so-this-statement-is-not-
contractually-binding-and-i'm-indemnified-against-claims-for-
suggesting-this-and-this-sentence-never-existed-but-if-things-come-
through-it-will-be-very-cool announcements* for WOWODC, and it all
adds up to "You want to be at WOWODC if you use WebObjects." I'm also
not _100%_ certain at this point that the full set of sessions (see
previous sentence) will be allowed to be recorded this year, so while
recordings will likely have 95% of the content and still be great,
there's a chance you're going to miss some cool stuff if you're not
actually there.
ms
* For the record, Pascal doesn't want to pre-announce things in case
final approval doesn't come through -- he doesn't want people to feel
cheated (since he has some amount of legal obligation as the
organizer). I, on the other hand, have no such legal obligation don't
care about your little feelings :), and want people to know that
there's a CHHAANNNCEE of some really cool stuff, so make your plans
accordingly, with the possibility that history will record that, in
this particular case, my pants are on fire. Besides, unconfirmed
things aside, if you use WO, you're going to drink from the wo-
firehose here and learn some great stuff.
On Apr 30, 2009, at 7:01 AM, Johan Henselmans wrote:
As this year's WWDC is sold out, and I would like to go to WOWODC,
but can not justify the expenses for just two days, I would like to
know
-Are the plans to do the streaming is still on?
-Is the block booking for the hotel also valid only for the weekend?
-Anybody interested in swapping houses during the month of june from
SF/West Coast to Amsterdam (Netherlands, not Michigan)?
Regards,
Johan Henselmans
http://www.netsense.nl
Tel: +31-20-6267538
Fax: +31-20-6279159
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