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."

I think it's a couple of weeks ...

[Quixotic Raindrop]

... 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.

Gasp!

[dynayellow]

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.

Re:Gasp!

[Chucker23N]

Graphic designers and desktop publishers at WWDC? It's not a MacWorld-style expo, y'know...

MacHack vs. WWDC

[MacTechnic]

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

Re:MacHack vs. WWDC

[Lars T.]

Oh, so Apple postponed WWDC so people couldn't show their Panther hacks at MacHack. Now it all makes sense ;-)

Re:MacHack vs. WWDC

[Textbook Error]

20,000 - not quite! There were 2,500 in 1999 [apple.com], and probably not more than another 1-2K since then.

Re:MacHack vs. WWDC

[Quixotic Raindrop]

According to what I can tell, Mac Hack is after WWDC, not before. Panther hacks will still be available.

Re:MacHack vs. WWDC

[Quixotic Raindrop]

Of course, that was before I read additional information. Geez, quixy, read all the press releases first, will ya?

Somebody should charter a bus

[bill_mcgonigle]

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.