The Worldwide Developers Conference is an annual trade show for Apple developers. Commonly abbreviated to WWDC.
The conference is held once a year in California. The attendee numbers have varied between roughly 2000 - 3500 developers in recent years. It is Apple's chance to introduce new technologies to its developers, and has been used in recent years to demonstrate and distribute preview versions of upcoming Mac OS X versions.
The conference starts off with a keynote. Since 1998, it has always been held by CEOSteve Jobs.
In 2003, WWDC was merged with another Apple trade show called QuickTime Expo. The number of QuickTime sessions was increased, and the Apple Design Awards were joined by Apple Design Awards for QuickTime Content. At the same time, more enterprise oriented content was added, focusing a lot on the Xserve and Mac OS X Serveroperating system.
All attendees have to sign a non-disclosure agreement covering the sessions and other material handed out at WWDC. In the past, the keynote was also covered by the NDA, but Apple is now webcasting the keynote address to an audience much wider than just developers. It used to be that WWDC was not a place for hardware announcements, but Apple deviated from that principle in 2002 when it announcing the rack mounted server Xserve, and in 2003, introducing the consumer-oriented iSight.
External Links
Apple's WWDC site (http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/)
On December 14, 1990, the WWDC received a letter from Colonel Donald E. Hazen, District Engineer for the USCOE, advising that it was his recommendation that the 404 permit be denied for the Sandstone Project as there is no specific use for 20,000 acre feet of the project yield.
In 1994, the WWDC began the process of obtaining federal permits to enable the construction of the smaller Sandstone project.
In August, 1995, the WWDC and Select Water Committee were briefed on the status of the EIS, toured the alternatives, and concluded that they would consider alternatives to the Sandstone Project if there was a clear consensus of support in the Little Snake Valley for that alternative.
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