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Date:	Fri, 30 Jul 1999 02:34:55 PDT
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: A Note From The Warp Expo West Crew

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Note from Peter Skye: This is a copy of the press release we
distributed today to the news media.
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Contact: Rollin White (Rollin@scoug.com)

A Note From The Warp Expo West Crew

We thought we'd fill you in on a few more Warp Expo West details,
since the show is less than two months away.

First, we've been blocking out the presentations and seminars, and
they fall into the following categories.

IBM: Steven King, IBM's Development Manager for Network Computing,
will fly here from Austin, Texas to speak. He'll show IBM's new Warp
Server for e-Business, TCP/IP enhancements, Domino and Java server
improvements, WorkSpace On-Demand server-managed clients plus the
Windows32 feature for WorkSpace On-Demand, and Warp Server features like
the Journaling File System, the Logical Volume Manager, WebSphere, NT
Server management, and more. And in a separate session Steven will show
products from IBM's Network Computing Software Division covering XML,
Java, SecureWay, Year2000 and a wide variety of other important
subjects.

PROGRAMMING: A number of programming topics will be presented at Warp
Expo West, including international consultant Steven Levine's "How To
Write a Workplace Shell Class". Steven will show you how to subclass
existing desktop objects and leverage the Workplace Shell's
functionality into your own programs. Then he'll show the details of
building your own Workplace Shell objects and conclude with the
appropriate development and debugging techniques.

NETWORKING: The Networking SIG leader for SCOUG, Steve Schiffman,
will present one of several networking lectures. His "Designing Your
Home Network" will show you how to connect your machines together, how
to install the drivers, what software you can take advantage of, what
your home network can do that stand-alone machines can't, and how to get
all of the networked machines onto the internet through just one
internet connection.

MULTIMEDIA AND GRAPHICS: Jerry Rash will have his entire home
entertainment center on stage -- video capture and playback, audio,
editing, CD audio transfers to hard drive and back again, format
conversions -- and it all runs on an OS/2 computer. Jerry will show you
what utilities to use (including the free ones), what drivers to use,
and he'll show you how to set up the OS/2-based multimedia system you've
been dreaming about! And Don Baker, the expert on inkjet printing, will
show you how to get images that look like photographs (we've seen him do
it!) from your inkjet printer.

WEB SITES: Netscape Composer is full of tricks to make your web pages
look great, and there are a handful of other web tools that will test
and check your web site and catch the dozens of little "gotchas" that
take weeks to track down manually. Virginia Hetrick returns again this
year with two more presentations to keep your web site at the A+ level.

ADVOCACY: We'll have plenty for the OS/2 users who want a vision of
the future. Lynn Maxson will speak again on his Warpicity project for
creating software with his specialized Developer's Assistant programming
tools, and he'll include more details on his methods and the project's
current status.

MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING: Ben Archer and Michael "Rocky" Rakijas
use OS/2 while they do their research, and they've selected Octave as
the OS/2 program they want to talk about and show you how to use.
Signal analysis, curve fitting and homework assignments are just the
start of what can be done with Octave, and Ben and Rocky will show you
how they've solved many, many problems with this tool.

AND MORE: We've got many, many other presentations planned for Warp
Expo West. In fact, there are about two dozen lecture periods, so
you'll have *plenty* to keep you busy.

We'll also have all the OS/2 vendors there, plus the Vendor100
shareware showcase, the Birds Of A Feather specialized discussion
groups, and an after-show Saturday evening dinner if you want to stick
around for a bit of socializing.

AND WARP EXPO WEST ADMISSION IS FREE!! This OS/2 show, "A Warpfest of
OS/2 Entertainment", is sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User
Group. There's no fee for attendees, and there's no fee for the OS/2
vendors who will show their products.

Warp Expo West will be in sunny Southern California on September 18.

What we want you to do right now, if you think you'll be attending
Warp Expo West, is register. It's free. By registering you'll let us
know how many people to plan for, and you'll also get our weekly Warp
Expo West Report which will keep you updated on the latest Warp Expo
West developments.

Here's the registration url. It's free. Register now!

http://www.scoug.com/warpexpowest/registration.html

For free OS/2 vendor tables or to be a part of the Vendor100 shareware
showcase, send an email to Rollin@scoug.com. We'll make sure your
product gets to be a part of Warp Expo West -- for free!

And if you have a presentation you'd like to give, or you're an expert
with certain OS/2 software or OS/2 technologies, we'd love to hear from
you. We don't mind adding extra seminar rooms, and every OS/2 user at
Warp Expo West wants to hear about OS/2 products and solutions.

Thanks, from the Warp Expo West crew. :)

Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.

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