[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: Call for speakers (XML DevCon 2000, June 25-28)
At 12:46 PM 2/18/00 +0000, Henry S. Thompson wrote: >Um, who are you, and why should we support what looks like at first >glance like a purely money-making exercise on your part? [...] >Your registration form doesn't even include the cost before requiring >details. Your press release page is empty. I may be getting >suspicious in my old age, but this looks like a scam to me. [I deliberately don't comment on Henry's views] There is a further confusion - which I suspect may be unintentional but fooled me - in that there is/was a regular conference for XML developers run by GCA, etc. [I attended the one in Montreal in 1998] I seem to have seen it called xmldevcon somewhere. I had assumed that XML DevCon 2000 was the 2000 version, but having looked at the WWW page it doesn't look like it. Clarification, anyone? This is a difficult area for XML-DEV in that we have welcomed "mainstream" XML meetings, especially when they are related to developers' activities. Many of these have been GCA, WWW or OASIS-related. However there are likely to be lots more XML activities now. It is important that we don't get stuck in a single community "lest one good custom should corrupt the world". XML-DEV should not been seen to be "only for GCA and OASIS". Do we encourage (say) Xtech2000 to post calls here, while (possibly) persuading some others that XML-DEV is not the most appropriate place? Occasionally in the past people used to e-mail me and ask whether X (conference, jobs, product, etc.) was suitable for posting on XML-DEV. Are there guidelines that we could develop? P. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/threads.html ***************************************************************************
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