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At 09:57 05/03/00 -0800, Tim Bray wrote: >At 11:51 AM 3/5/00 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: >>One other point while we're talking about XTech - it was a relatively small >>community of generally overworked people. The XML community, especially >>the set of people focused on XML rather than just applying it, really needs >>to grow. Far too many of the people I talked to (myself included) are >>turning down exciting and/or lucrative work because there isn't enough time >>to do it, and it's hard to refer the work to similarly overbusy people. > >What Simon said. We absolutely need to grow a few more of our own XML-savvy >independents. Of course, XML savvy is pretty useless unless you know a lot >about web servers and browsers and databases and concurrency and middleware >and so on... And of course there's a crying shortage of expertise >in all that stuff too. Sigh. -T. Another area where we are short is in contributions from students. We had a student presentation in the SML session - well done - but in general XML has not yet penetrated academia. Students are where our future lies. 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/ ***************************************************************************
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