• From: "David Megginson" <david.megginson@g...>
• To: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 10:19:23 -0400

The Call for Participation in XML 2007, the world's largest and
longest-running markup conference, is now open until Friday 31 August:

  http://2007.xmlconference.org/public/cfp/4

The conference runs from Monday 3 December to Wednesday 5 December
2007, and includes a keynote by Jason Hunter, one of our most popular
speakers at past conferences.

Thanks to Edd Dumbill and his startup, Expectnation, we have a much
simpler, better-designed web interface for submitting proposals this
year, so please drop by and take a look.

There are a few changes for the conference this year:

- There will be no separate tutorial day; instead, the regular program
(three tracks) ends at noon on Wednesday, then Wednesday afternoon
will be devoted to a special training track for all different skill
levels (no separate registration required)

- This is the *only* call for participation; there will be no
late-breaking call this year.

- On one of the evenings, we plan to offer lightning sessions for
standards groups -- each group will have 20 slides and 6 minutes and
40 seconds to let us know what they're working on.  This will be a
great way to learn a lot about a lot of specs and standards in a short
time.

- We continue to encourage presentations on open data and document
technologies other than XML, such as JSON.

We look forward to seeing you in Boston this December.


All the best,


David