featured speakers & last chance for early registration, ADHOC/MacHack 2005
April 15th is approaching!
Don’t Panic!
There’s still time to get your early bird registration in for the Advanced Developers Hands-On Conference (ADHOC), the conference also known as MacHack. April 15th is the last day to sign up at the cheapest rates. Of course you can register later, even on site during the conference July 26 - 31, in Dearborn, Michigan.
We’re particularly pleased about the speakers for our midnight sessions. Not everyone gets to be a midnight session speaker at ADHOC, not even folks who do Keynotes[tm].
The first midnight Featured Speaker is Jordan Hubbard.
Famous for co-founding the FreeBSD project and being an active contributor to the Open Source community, Jordan is Apple’s manager of the Darwin (UNIX-based) core of Macintosh OS X. His career focus pretty well mirrors the range of ADHOC, cutting edge technology that can be used and expanded on by all.
The second midnight Keynote Speaker is Cory Doctorow.
By day, Cory is the European Affairs Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), working to protect civil liberties in techology law, policies and standards. By night, Cory is an exceptionally prolific writer, publishing regularly in Wired, Popular Science and Make magazines, as well authoring science fiction and a widely read blog boingboing.net.
And don’t fall asleep before our third consecutive Midnight Event, the world-famous showcase, this year hosted by beloved industry columnist Andy Ihnatko. You mean you’ve never heard of the world-famous showcase?
Are you the sort of person who does six impossible things before breakfast and then rounds off the morning with lunch at Milliways? Start the conference experience off right by using the next 48 hours to write an incredibly clever program for the ADHOC Showcase. That’s right, the Showcase is coming again, and it’s your chance to show the Universe that you’re, well, mostly harmless.
Always wanted to give your computer a Genuine People Personality? Don’t let it be Somebody Else’s Problem, join us and you can make it happen! Although Eddy’s in the space time continuum, you can enjoy putting your skills to the test in Dearborn, Michigan. We’re in the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the Galaxy, but the hyperspace bypass will take you right here. You can work alone, but two heads are better than one, and three arms are better than two, so create a programming team and develop wonders such as the universe has never seen. If you do well, you won’t be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. Don’t forget to sign your name in the fjords!
If you are enthusiastic about the technologies you work with, consider sharing your experiences with other people in the field and host a session. ADHOC is a conference run by developers for developers. Example sessions include topics such as: OpenGL programming techniques, debugging strategies, using OpenSource software successfully, stressing out graphics cards and cpus with game programming, the business of making and marketing shareware, encryption and security schemes, making the leap from Windows to Macintosh development, or just jumping from Carbon to Cocoa… anything that might interest engineers is fair game! Please take a look at our Sessions page at http://www.adhocconference.com/sessions/ and drop the committee an e-mail.
The electronic registration page can be found linked from our main page. Visit the site at http://www.adhocconference.com/ and we look forward to seeing you in July!
