Jim writes:

> Well, since HP World 2001 is in Chicago (a mere 8 hours away by car), it
>  looks like I may actually be able to attend this one (my first since 1991).
>  However, I am astounded at the scheduling conflicts/anomalies that exist in
>  this year's program.  Now I know that scheduling these events is difficult,
>  but really!  Look at this:

[snip]

>  Friday has Wirt and QCTerm going up against two SIG's and VB.  SIG's
>  Omnidex, Java, and EMC are during lunch.  The 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM has only
>  two seminars running at the same time (again lots of open times).

At least part of the scheduling problem has been solved. I've cancelled my
talk at Chicago on QCTerm, if for no other reason than embarassment :-(.

The first talk that I gave on QCTerm at San Francisco was perfectly all
right, by any measure. It was advertised as a first peek at QCTerm, and
that's what it was. But the second year, at Philadelphia, it seemed to me
that the talk had a tinge of "vaporware" to it. And that would be especially
true if I gave the same talk again this year in Chicago.

Rather than do that, I decided it would be best if we simply skipped this
year and work like crazy to get the van Gogh mode of QCTerm finished, or at
least finished to a point where people could start developing applications on
the HP3000 with it. I've already sincerely apologized to Jerry Fochtman for
the inconvenience I've caused him, especially given how hard he works on the
schedule.

One of the things we can do with QCTerm's van Gogh mode is have it display
its own spoken tutorials -- exactly the kind of talk that we might give at HP
World -- over the internet, so that anyone can watch the material anytime
they want, as often as they want. The "origin of life" talk that I mentioned
last week, and which a fair number of you saw, is exactly the format we're
developing for this kind of thing, but instead of a lecture on the origin of
life, which may or may not be interesting to the bulk of the people on the
list, the tutorial could be just as easily how to create good looking forms
in QCTerm and how to integrate them very simply and very easily into your
HP3000 applications.

As any number of people here have said, "No one will ever have to go to a
meeting again."  While I doubt that that will be true, I certainly want to do
everything we can to help minimize travel for training sessions, including
for our own on our own products.

Wirt Atmar

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