With one day to go before Tiger is released, the WWDC student scholarship winners (myself included!) received official word from Apple that we were winners. What this means is that we get a free pass (e-Ticket) to attend the developers conference between June 6th and June 10th, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Granted, this hardly costs Apple any money but is a wonderful, good-will gesture to budding developers and students that is greatly appreciated! Some highlights from last year were the keynote (of course!), Apple Remote Desktop 2 given to us for free, the trip to Apple’s campus in Cupertino (and the live concert of Jimmy Eat World), and not to forget, the special Sunday event just for students…
This will be my second year in attendance after having attended last year’s conference. The overall topics will be Tiger-centric and instead of learning about the new technologies and how we *might* be able to work with them, given that the operating system was still in development last year, we’ll have concrete instructions. I’m greatly looking forward to attending the conference and being that I now know what it’s all about, will be able to appreciate it more by being selective in which tracks I pursue. In addition, I’m dying to take some photos of San Francisco and the Golden Gate bridge with my Rebel XT!
Travel plans are currently in limbo; I’ve used my Delta frequent flier miles to fly out to San Francisco on June 4th, catching the red-eye back to Syracuse on a late June 10th flight. This is actually *perfect* as I don’t have to pay for an extra, unneeded night at whatever hotel I’ll be staying at. I’ve contacted the Student-Dev mailing list in search for a roommate whose willing to stay only six nights (as opposed to the normal week) and am currently in communication with a pleasant French student from Paris. My ultimate goal is to keep lodging costs under $300 for the stay, while not sacrificing quality too much!
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