Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education

July 1997

The News Page


July 25, 1997 - If you live in the Los Angeles, CA area, Warpstock is looking for some folks to help spread the word about the Fall event. For one such promotion they have sponsors to fund a table at the Oct. 5/6 Computer Marketplace show in Pomona and will need dedicated OS/2 people to staff the table and help promote WarpStock. This is a great opportunity to spread the word about OS/2 and WarpStock. For more info check out http://www.warpstock.org.

For those unfamiliar with WarpStock - this is planned to be "a community event for the OS/2 users, developers and other support folks out there." It's an opportunity to get together with other folks who use and enjoy OS/2 and learn more about how OS/2 works and what applications are available now and in the future. The dates are October 25-26, 1997 and the place AQMD Headquarters, 21865 E. Copley Drive, Diamond Bar, CA 91765. For more information on WarpStock surf over to http://www.warpstock.org.
July 18, 1997 - VOICE was pleased to co-sponsor with SofTouch Systems and Calinet Solutions an IRC event, Soundoff with the Netscape. Both Dan Libby and Michael Kaply of the Netscape Communicator for OS/2 team were available for live questioning from a crowd of over 80 people.

Some of the many questions and responses included the following (note <ForU2Play> is Michael Kaply and <danda> is Dan Libby):

Question: Will there be integration with the OS/2 desktop in version 4?
<ForU2Play> We will have at least the same level of integration as 2.02 and Windows...
<danda> Integration like IE integrates with Win*? No.

Question: Does the fact that there's no MSIE/2 allow you to take more time, to do a better job?
<ForU2Play> Our timetables are based on windows timetables combined with quality Out goal is to put out a comparable windows product with as high as quality as possible. Not having competition doesn't affect that

Question: Are there any plans to add a WebMap like in WE to netscape/2?
<ForU2Play> no plans for a web map currently. History is much improved though
<danda> The History list in Communicator should provide most of the functionality of WE's Webmap.

Question: Where should we be watching for news on the upcoming betas and screenshots?
<ForU2Play> the best place to watch is the netscape unofficial home page - http://home.netscape.com/people/danda

Question: When will Netscape Communicator for OS/2 be available?
<ForU2Play> oops, I meant september
<ForU2Play> end of august for beta

For the complete log of the entire online event go to http://www.gt-online.com/~tandie/eventlogs.html
For a list of future Soundoff events check out the Soundoff home page -
http://www.gt-online.com/~tandie/soundoff.html

July 16, 1997 - Due to WEBBnet and internet problems the general meetiing was cancelled.
July 7, 1997 - Well summer is here in North America. People are spending more time outside and less time online. To accomodate that trend the VOICE board has decided to forego the 2nd Saturday monthly meeting and the 4th Wednesday of the month meeting as well. Starting in July VOICE will only hold meetings on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. These will be at the usual times (8PM EDT - 00:00GMT). Feel free to drop in and join our meetings.

July 2, 1997 - General meeting held on WEBBnet. No issues were on the agenda. Basically discussed the recent announcement by SPG that they were dropping OS/2 support and also discussed the recently started ProNews/2 beta from Panacea Software - http://www.panaceasoft.com/




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