Contact:  Rollin White (Rollin@scoug.com)
          1-562-596-5121 office

Friday, July 30, 1999

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 Excitement", 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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