Contact: Carol Lynn
mailto:info@machack.com
c/o Expotech
1264 Bedford Road
Grosse Point Park, MI 48230
(313) 882-1824

January 18, 2000-Dearborn, MI-Each year, MacHack, The Annual Conference for Leading Edge Developers, headlines visionaries and leaders of personal computing with a unique focus on the Macintosh. The 2000 conference represents a departure for MacHack.

Reaching beyond the traditional Macintosh community, MacHack is pleased to announce that Eric S. Raymond, open-source and linux luminary will keynote the June 22 event.

"We've spent years shaming hack authors into giving their source code away for the benefit of their fellow SmartFriends�," said Scott Boyd, cofounder of the MacHax� Group. "We never dreamed that it would make commercial sense. Eric Raymond is crazy enough to tell the world that it will work."

Mr. Raymond is an observer-participant anthropologist in the Internet hacker culture. His research has helped explain the decentralized open-source model of software development that has proven so effective in the evolution of the Internet. His own software projects include one of the Internet's most widely-used email transport programs. Mr. Raymond is also a science fiction fan, a musician, an activist for the First and Second Amendments, and a martial artist with a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. His home page is at <http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr>.

The keynote kicks off the MacHack conference at 12:01 AM on Thursday, June 22 and runs into the wee hours of the morning. From there, this legendary code-a-thon and conference runs continuously for 72 hours.

MacHack 2000 will take place June 22-24, 2000, in Dearborn, Michigan. More information is available on the Web from <http://www.machack.com/>.

For attendees, discounted registration is available for early action. Full attendees can register for $425 online, a savings of $100 of the regular registration rate, students can register for $50 which includes all-access to the conference as well as a special meal package. Total attendance is limited to 400. Student attendance is limited to 50. More details are available on the conference website.

MacHack is a registered trademark of Expotech, Inc. MacHack is not affiliated with The MacHax Group, although we've all been enjoying the Hack Contest together each year! Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective holders.

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