Web Group: Conferences

Update: March 6, 2000

Main Conferences | Archive | Goals | Tuition Reimbursement

Main Conferences
Name	Goal	When	Where	Early Registration	Basic Cost	Comments
	General Technology	25-27Jan00	Washington, D.C.	7Jan00	free	Like FOSE: just go to pickup stuff.
	General Technology	23-25Feb00	San Francisco, CA	24Jan00	$1390	Art&Interface design seminar
	Advanced Tools	27-29Mar00	San Francisco, CA	15Feb00	$795	Probably more graphics oriented.
	Advanced Tools	27-30Mar00	Santa Clara, CA	25feb00	$995
		18-20apr00	D.C.	17Mar99	$25(Exhibit Only)/$795	Decent floor show with free seminars/full conference schedule not yet available.
	Advanced Tools	5-8Jun00	San Francisco, CA		~$1500	The Java conference
	Advanced Tools	17-21Jul00	Seattle, WA	n/a	$1585	Bigger version of Studio 200
	General Technology	7-11Aug00	Washington, D.C.			General conference, bit business heavy
	General Technology	23-27Oct00	New York, NY	Not yet announced.	Free (expo only) Full $1395	A big one. Lots of interesting stuff.
	Presenters	30Oct-4Nov00	San Antonio, TX	Submission Deadline: 23Feb00	Not yet announced.	This is a conference where we would participate (AS/education)
	Training	Continuous	Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; New Orleans, LA			Specific training for Macromedia
	Training	Continuous

Archives
Past	Future/Notables

Target Goals
Goal	Definition
Advanced Tools	In-depth information regarding web development tools: dreamweaver, flash, directory, fireworks, Java
Broadband/High Interactivity	Delivery of multi-user/high data rate sites:
Database/MetaData	Technologies dealing with information storage/retrieval/relationships: DB's, XML
General Technology	General state of what's available and who's doing what with it: floor shows
Horizon Expansion	Subjects related to web and information processing: computer/human interaction

Any conference/training/seminar one wishes to attend must directly address one of the goals above. If there is a conference one really wants to attend, consider presenting a paper/poster.

NOTE: The horizon expansion is jde's, smk has not signed up to it yet, but he will.

Tuition

There was a question on whether training things, such as Global Knowledge could be covered under tuition reimbursement. The current answer is no. From Eugenia Ryan:

Bob and I agree these are seminars and are not candidates for tuition reimbursement. These classes should fall under the seminars area.