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MacHack On, Despite WWDC Rescheduling
ddtstudio writes "Apple moved its Worldwide Developers Conference -- a Mecca for Mac programmers -- a few months to make a new OS preview available, which caused enough consternation as developers had to change air tickets and hotel reservations. But now WWDC is only a few days before MacHack, a long-standing, more 'underground' get-together in Michigan. What to do? Apparently MacHack will go on, says, eWeek's Matthew Rothenberg."
... not months. It was originally scheduled for the next-to-last week in May, and now it's scheduled for the next-to-last week in June. That's not a couple of months, thats a month.
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Apple will start the 'iHack' conference, run it concurrently, and piss off everyone at MacHack.
Does this mean that profesional graphic designers, desktop publishers, industry professionals and programmers for major corporations will have to choose between attending the WWDC or MacHack?
Truly, the decision must be wracking their souls right now.
MacHack has traditionally been held around the 3rd week of June, if only because it gave people to recover from the end of college classes and get started with summer work, and to assimilate the new information released at WWDC that year. This year, WWDC follows MacHack and so any Panther Hacks will difficult to demonstrate without breaking your Privacy agreements with Apple.
It also signals a possible change in support from Apple executive management regarding MacHack. The O'Reilly Macintosh Conference held last year in October may gaining favor, or this may just represent a rescheduling of WWDC to represent the major Apple Summer Conference as Apple and MacWorld management work out their differences. However, many Apple programmers like going to MacHack, which has a more laid-back atmosphere, which encourages people to interact, create and program original new things, which get shown off at the Hack Contest. WWDC is a much more passive event, where people only have a chance to sit and listen and occasionally ask a question or make a comment.
I am glad to see MacHack staying the course, and making accommodations for people, but there is weekend during which people can fly from Detroit to California.
If people do have to make choice between MacHack and WWDC, I would prefer that Apple send me a refund and allow me to go to MacHack, and perhaps send me the DVD of the WWDC sessions.
Perhaps for the WWDC diehards, Apple could send Steve Jobs jet to bring us back to California for WWDC. I am sure more developers are upset with Apple for changing WWDC with only 2 months notice. There will be alot of unhappy hotel managers in San Jose, and a lot of busy hotel staff in San Francisco as they prepare for over 20,000 developers to descend on SF for WWDC.
Everybody has Powerbooks, so the MacHack Overtime Bus could focus on making the winning hacks even more useless.
Yahoo says it's a 36-hour drive.
One day they'll tell legends about that trip.
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