Sci-Fi Hi-Fi

Ah, summer! Even if all of the pre-WWDC activity at work wasn’t enough to remind me that my favorite hot weather nerd confab is rapidly approaching, I would definitely not have forgotten because of the many emails and personal queries I’ve been getting from you all about my yearly WWDC party. To all who have been asking: thank you–I sincerely appreciate your keen interest!

As I mentioned before, this year I had far more ambitious plans for the party than in previous years, so the planning has been much more logistically challenging. Fortunately, all the ducks are now in a row, so I can finally fill you all in on the details.

The first thing I should mention is that this year we have a generous benefactor whose contributions have made my crazy scheme feasible: Brent Simmons and the good people of NewsGator Technologies (Denver represent). Thanks to their sponsorship, this year’s party will be bigger and better than ever. And what does that mean, you ask?

Well, first, we have a beautiful venue: 111 Minna (a bar/club/art gallery only a short walk from the Moscone Center). Second, we will have some free drink tickets (come early is my advice). Third, Brent will be giving a preview of NetNewsWire 3.0. And, fourth, we will have music galore, including:

• An experimental A/V set by Apple engineer and DJ Chris Moulios (a.k.a. Suboctave), who some may remember as the creator of ACID.
• A live performance and DJ set by San Francisco’s Broker/Dealer (who, it should be pointed out, have an awesome video featuring tons of vintage Apple equipment–including Lisas!)

There may also be a few other surprises (like that San Francisco legend I hinted at in my previous post), depending on what I can line up…

So, there you have it: not only is the party on, it’s way on! If you’re planning to attend, or even if you just think you might be, I would very helpful to me if you could register your interest on the event’s Upcoming.org page so I can get an idea of what we’re looking at for attendance:

http://upcoming.org/event/93479/

Even if you’re not a member of Upcoming yet, the signup process is really minimal, they won’t spam you, they’re good people, they’ve got nice RSS and iCal integration, blah, blah, blah, etc.

See you all in San Francisco!