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Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT - OSF/Motif Week in Japan held on March 22-26, 1993]
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:30:28 GMT
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                        OSF/Motif(tm) Team Visits Japan

                              March 22-26, 1993
                   
                (Each day will be Simultaneously Translated) 

Speakers include: (Bio's follow after agenda)

%       Bruce Kin Huie -- OSF/Motif Technology Manager
%       Ellis Cohen -- Principal Architect   
%       Vania Joloboff -- Manager for User Environment


________________________________________________________________________
Target audience:  First two days are tailored for business product 
managers and/or technology managers interested in learning current 
OSF/Motif technology and future activities.   The latter three days are 
for technically oriented staff (e.g. application programmers and 
software developers.)
        
The enrollment fee for one week entrance is $800 U.S. dollars.  Each 
enrollee will be given an event pass.  This pass can than be shared 
among other company representatives who have an interest in attending 
individual days.   
Agenda for the Week

Sessions begin each day at 9:00 A.M. and will end around 5 P.M.

Monday, March 22nd      Asian OSF/Motif Licensee Meeting:

                %       Review of the current Motif 1.2 release
                %       Outline the potential functionality under 
development                
                %       Review the two new initiatives:
                        -GUI application Interoperability Architecture 
(GAIA)
                        -Structured Graphics
                %       Outline the goals for the "next generation" GUI 
        
(First day speakers: Bruce Kin Huie, Vania Joloboff and Ellis Cohen)
        
Tuesday, March 23rd     Case Studies of OSF/Motif Adoption:

                %       Presentation from licensees 
                        on current and future usage of Motif 
        
                (Presenting: OSF/Motif Licensees)

Wednesday, March 24th   Course:   
                %       Programming with OSF/Motif Widgets and the X 
Toolkit 
                  Technical Seminar (course profile follows speaker     
                  bio's)
                (Presenter: Ellis Cohen)

Thursday, March 25th    Course:
                %       Motif 1.2 Technical Update Seminar
                  (course profile follows speaker bio's)        

                (Presenter: Vania Joloboff)

Friday, March 26th      Course:
                %       User Interface Design with OSF/Motif Technical 
Seminar
                         (course profile follows speaker bio's) 

                (Presenter: Ellis Cohen)


Speaker Bio's:

Bruce Kin Huie: 
Bruce joined OSF from Bull Worldwide Information Systems, where he was 
product marketing manager for the Bull Professional Workstation 
Environment.  He previously held positions in reseller channels with 
Bull, was a sales director and industry analyst with International Data 
Corporation (IDC), and a national sales manager with AT&T.
               
Bruce holds a B.A. degree from George Washington University and an M.S. 
degree from the University of Southern California.

Ellis Cohen:
Ellis is the Principal Architect for User Interface Technologies at the 
Open Software Foundation.  He initially came to OSF as a member of the 
industry review team that selected the technology base for OSF/Motif.
        
Prior to joining OSF, Ellis developed "rtl", a tiled window manager for 
X11(tm) at Siemens Research and Technologies Laboratories, where he also 
was the architect for a project developing CASE technology for 
object-oriented architectures.
        
Dr. Cohen received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon 
University in 1976, where he was one of the developers of Hydra, an 
early object-oriented multiprocessor operating system.          


Vania Joloboff:
Vania received a doctorate degree in Computer Science from the 
University of Grenoble, France.  He has 15 years experience in software 
research and development.  
        
Formerly, manager of the Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, he 
became manager of the User Environment at OSF (the OSF unit in charge of 
the Motif technology) in 1989.          Vania is the accredited OSF 
representative to the X Consortium.  He has been co-author of the X11
Release 5 internationalization specifications and has published many 
articles in 
Europe and the US on user interface and document processing.



                Enrollment Information:

Enrollment fee for one week entrance: $800 U.S. dollars

U.S.:                            Pacific Rim:

  Phone: (617) 621-8780          Phone:    +813.3479.4740                  
  Fax:   (617) 6218781           Fax:      +813.3479.4760
  Email: jane@osf.org            Email:    jim@osf.org


Wednesday-Friday Technical Seminar Course Profiles

Wednesday, March 24th
Programming with OSF/Motif Widgets and the X Toolkit    

Seminar Length:  1-Day  

Summary:
The "Introduction to Programming with OSF/Motif Widgets and the X 
Toolkit" seminar shows the experienced C programmer how to create 
sophisticated user interfaces by using the OSF/Motif and Xt programming 
libraries.

At the conclusion of the seminar, the student will understand the 
Motif/Xt programming model, be familiar with the Motif widget set, and 
be able to write Motif user interfaces incorporating menus and dialog 
boxes.
        
Topics:
        %       Overview of OSF and OSF/Motif
        %       Makeup of OSF/Motif
        %       Basics of X and Xt
        %       The OSF/Motif widget set
        %       RHello, WorldS in OSF/Motif
        %       Widget creation, realization, and mgt
        %       Resources and their specification
        %       Callbacks and event handlers
        %       Building a realistic interface
        %       Manager widgets
        %       Text and list widgets
        %       Compound strings
        %       Resolution independence
        %       Using UIL
        %       Constructing menus
        %       Using dialog boxes
        %       Customizing mwm
        %       Widget - mwm communication
        

Thursday, March 25th
OSF/Motif Release 1.2 Technical Seminar

Seminar Length:  1-Day

Summary:
The ROSF/Motif Release 1.2S seminar will provide the application 
developer, system support person or technical professional with an 
in-depth technical overview of the new features in the latest OSF/Motif 
release.  The seminar describes many of the key enhancements important 
to programmers familiar with Motif 1.0 or Motif 1.1  Topics include: 
internationalization, drag and drop, and tear-off menus.  The seminar 
also demonstrates many of the new features of Motif 1.2 using various 
demo programs, including view, xmmap, and cutpaste.  

Prerequisites:  Knowledge of OSF/Motif 1.1 or 1.0.

Topics:
        %       Internationalization
        %       Toolkit internationalization
                        -       ANSI C concept of locale
                        -       X11R5 background
                        -       Input methods
                        -       Text widget changes
        %       Mwm and UIL internationalization
        %       Drag and Drop
                        -       Presentation of the API
                        -       Drag and Drop and internationalization 
                        -       Toolkit support
                        -       Code examples
        %       Toolkit Enhancements
                        -       Tear-off menus
                        -       Focus management and traversal
                        -       Geometry management and layout
                        -       Resource management for representation 
types
                        -       Visual enhancements
                        -       CUA and Windows compliance
                        -       Specific widget enhancements
        %       Mwm Enhancements
                        -       Window families
                        -       Tear-off menu support
                        -       Shape extension support
        %       UIL Enhancements
                        -       Internationalization
                        -       Support of automatically created widgets
                        -   WML binary extension

User Interface Design with OSF/Motif
        
Seminar Length:  1-Day  

Summary:
The "User Interface Design with OSF/Motif" seminar is designed  to guide 
developers in constructing a useable interface with the OSF/Motif 
toolkit.  It describes the elements that contribute to a good interface 
design by showing examples of both good and bad interface design.  The 
OSF/Motif Style Guide.  Examples illustrate items from the OSF/Motif 
Level One Certification Checklist.  Programmers are shown how to use 
features in the Motif toolkit as well as how to achieve OSF Level One 
Certification.  The OSF Motif Style Guide and Certification Checklist  
are referenced throughout the seminar.
                
Prerequisites: User level exposure to graphical user environments       

Topics:
        %       Understanding design principles and philosophies
        %       Providing consistency within an application
        %       Ensuring inter-application consistency
        %       Prototyping, testing, and redesigning
        %       Designing and laying out an application
        %       Using menus
        %       Using dialog boxes
        %       Enhancing the presentation of information
        %       Providing feedback
        %       Anticipating errors
        %       Providing user help
        %       Providing expert/novice interfaces
        %       Providing for inter-application information transfer
        %       Customizing
        %       Designing with internationalization in mind
        %       Certifying the application        


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