Chicago Palm Programmers Group Meeting

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Chicago Palm Programmers Group Meeting
Tuesday January 30th, 2001 630 830pm Room
9101, CST Building
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Chicago Palm Programmers Group Meeting Agenda

• 630     Doors Open
• 645     Introduction to CPPG
• 700     Palm OS 4.0 Expansion Technologies
• 745     Palm OS 5.0 Preview
• 815     Discussion

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CPPG Purpose

• To bring together Chicago area PalmOS developers
  and provide
• meetings,
• discussion groups,
• forums,
• panels,
• lectures,

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CPPG Resources

• Mailing Listhttp//www.egroups.com/subscribe/chi
  cago-palm-programmers
• Webpagehttp//www.forallsystems.com/cppg/

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CPPG Organizers

• Rizwan Ebrahim, Larry Garfield Karen Jeffrey

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Future Plans

• Monthly Meetings
• CPUG website
• More free stuff to give away
• Were open to suggestions (and volunteers!)

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Some Possible Future Topics

• Bluetooth
• More OS4.0
• Developer Programs
• Debugging Techniques
• PilRC
• INet Lib

• Kyocera API
• Sony API
• Palm Pix API
• Java (J2ME)
• Symbol API
• TRG API

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Next Meeting

• Tuesday February 27th?
• Volunteers to speak?
• Suggested topics?

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Chicago Palm Programmers Group Meeting Agenda

• 630     Doors Open
• 645     Introduction to CPPG
• 700     Palm OS 4.0 Expansion Technologies
• 745     Palm OS 5.0 Preview
• 815     Discussion

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Palm OS 4.0 Expansion Technologies

• The upcoming Palm OS 4.0 includes support for
  secondary storage and expansion cards. Rizwan
  will describe what to expect in upcoming Palm
  devices and demonstrate some of the features of
  the Expansion Manager API.

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Palm OS 5.0 Preview

• Palm has announced that they expect to begin
  shipping ARM-based devices sometime in 2002.
  Karen Jeffrey will summarize David Fedor's Palm
  Source presentation of the planned improvements
  in the architecture, tools, and hardware
  capabilities to the next generation of the Palm
  OS.