From: husemann@camelot.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann)
Subject: Re: OOPSLA 92 summary
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 12:24:05 GMT

pbahrs@netftp.austin.ibm.com (Peter C Bahrs (boca)) writes:

>Greetings,
>OOPSLA 92?  2000 people, 500 more than last year..what recession?  :)
>The papers were very good.  The tutorials were good.
>Highlights:

>Tutorials:
>Tutorial by Chambers was packed and good.  Most tutorials were or
>close to being solded out.  I really like the one by Wolzcko on OO 
>machines review.

>Workshops:
>The patterns and architecture workshops went really well from the sounds
>of it...just word of mouth.

>Papers:
>The 64bit arch. presented by Univ Wash. people was very interesting.

puts it kind of nicely --- `interesting' ...

>A lot of papers/panels were talking about OOA/D methods and
>comparing them.  Very intersting.  Basically, who has the best

Also, a lot of commercial hype was being on display --- at times it got very
evangelical (I kept expecting the call to the front to join the church 8=)

>methodology?  A lot of OMT was shown (I prefer Shlaer/Mellor...).
>The experience papers were very interesting, especially the on
>presented by CMU.

>Guest Speaker:
>Bummer, he was running windows and it crashed 3 times during his presentation.
>He went to using slides.  no flames, just fact.  This speaker was a
>press type.  He did make some comments about ...those japenese...I think
>the attendees from Japan were insulted a little....?

Kind of set/showed the direction the whole conference was turning to: 
commercialize as much as possible.

>Keynote:
>Good talk about objects and resue (another hot item this year is reuse.) from
>Snyder at Sun. Plubbable multi-vendor parts is parts type OS...neat

But nothing really new, right?

>Food:
>Great, lots a salmon,shrimp,dim sun...

Yeah, but only during the reception and the welcome reception ...

>Vancouver:
>Beautiful and wet and high sales tax (13%).

>Vendors:
>Pretty excited..neat non 00 related virtual reality game by GE.

The vendors were pretty excited or you? 8=) I found it kind of interesting
to see stuff `sailing' under the OO flag that actually one might not have
thought of being OO at all (to put it in a discret wording).

>Down points:
>OOA compare/contrast books (actually a paper) cost 70$ by berard and
>nearlyy 300$ by some publisher.  yikess....

There were some interesting papers (let's say 50% of them were), the panels 
served to some extent as an advertising platform for various people, the most
interesting event was the poster session.

The conference should have concentrated more on the advancement of OOPSLA than
on advancement of the people selling. 

Also, the organisation was suboptimal:

        (1) NO Internet access or even Email --- "even" the EUUG in Hungary
 	    last fall provided email access and that was in a former eastern
	    block state ...

	(2) The two halls the paper presentation and the panels were 
	    taking place in might be adequate for serving as a gym or for car
	    shows but not for a conference were one would like to see the
	    speakers and their presentations ...

	(3) Sure, the food at the receptions was really good, but how about
	    having lunch included and a scaled down version of the receptions?
	    

	(4) The Coffee/Tea/Soda breaks should really be what they claim to be,
	    serving the coffee/tea/sodas for 2000 people at some few tables 
	    inside the exhibitors hall (down the hallway) clearly doesn't do
	    the trick --- which perhaps was grasped as the coffee at least was
	    served outside the conference halls on the last day.

Just my 2 cents worth of comment ...

	Dirk Husemann


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