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The First Annual Water Language Users Conference

The 2004 conference was a resounding success. Read a summary written by an attendee. Stay tuned to this site or sign up for the Water-related newsletters for information on next year's conference.

Here is your chance to learn the latest about the open Water language and exchange ideas directly with the key people involved with the language. The Water Language Users Conference provides the ideal setting to share your Water experiences, gain additional hands-on practice with the language and hear first hand the future direction of the Water language.

Also included is a special side session to rapidly acquaint new users with the Water language and the Steam XML IDE.

Date: Sunday, June 20, 2004

Location: One Broadway at Kendall Square, adjacent to the MIT campus. Directions by car, taxi, or public transportation can be found here.

 
Fee: $95. Students with valid ID, free. Fee includes admission to all sessions, Steam XML IDE Personal Edition and 10 Steam Ports (a $345 retail value), on-line copies of all presentations, and the conference t-shirt shown above right. You may by credit card or pay at the conference.

Accommodations: Here is a list of accommodations that are conveniently located near Kendall Square where the Water Language Conference is taking place. Please contact the hotels directly to book your reservations.

Register now at http://waterlanguageconference.org/

The first 5 paid registrants will receive a free Water polo shirt.

Bring along your Water programs!
This is a great time to show off what you have been doing with Water. A free meal at Legal Sea Foods - the site of the conference dinner - will go the person who shows the coolest Water program.

Conference Program
8:30
 Registration and coffee
9:00
 Introductions
9:15
 Water Keynote - The philosophy and evolution of Water; the Water vision
9:45
 A Look at Water V4
10:15
 Break
10:30
 Prototyping with Water Web services - Using Water to create rapid prototypes of Web services, voting example
11:15
 Database - Water's database library has gone through some significant changes that make it easier to access and manipulate data in relational databases.
12:00
 Lunch
12:45
 Teaching Computer Science with Water- Merrick Stemen
1:00
 Rich UI for the Newbie, Watercalc, Waterpad, UI-form – Andrew Roach
1:30
 Water User Application Presentations
2:15
 Break
2:30
 Language Design - Deep Water for language aficionados, including comparisons to other languages
3:15
 Water case studies - Water in practice; a look at some larger implementations of Water including modeling and simulation applications
4:00
 Break
4:15
 Water Tools: project file, testing, doc, debugging, and deployment
5:00
 Conference wrap up and top 10 requests for Water
6:00
 Dinner for conference attendees and session presenters on a pay-as-you-go basis
The Conference will include a drawing for a copy of the first Water Programming book -- now a collector's item selling for $195 on Amazon.com. Only 115 copies of this limited edition remain in existence. A preview of the new Water book by Wiley Publishing is available at the Water Language site.

Register for the conference now

For questions email info@waterlanguageconference.org or call 617-475-1631.

The Water Language Conference 2004 is sponsored by Clear Methods, Inc.