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> 8. It's getting harder and harder to find an XML conference that's not > mostly marketing presentations. That's the inevitable price of > success, but it was fun to be at a conference like the ones from > two years ago, full of hard-core developers. Thanks, everyone > (especially to the co-chairs, Tim and Jon). I'd like to add my voice to the chorus of heartfelt thank-you's to all those responsible for XTech 2000. It's inspiring to see what can be accomplished when so many of the top people take the trouble to come to one place and brief each other on what's up. It is "harder and harder to find an XML conference that's not mostly marketing presentations" because there never were very many, and they are getting fewer as the community gets busier and busier, even while the marketing-rich conferences are burgeoning rapidly in both numbers and attendance. Let's face it: the truly discerning audience for this kind of technical conference is still not large, and the kind of program that would excite the discerning audience would leave the marketing-oriented audience completely cold. This summer, the hard-core developer conference suitable for the discerning audience will be "Extreme Markup Languages" (a new title shamelessly designed to attract the attention of Generation XML), which is a roll-up of "Markup Technologies" (which is splitting away from the annual XML 'XX conference in North America), the "Metastructures" conference hosted by Steve Newcomb and Carla Corkern, and the "XML Developers' Conference" hosted by Jon Bosak, both of which have been in the same August/Montreal timeslot for several years now. Jon expects to be present, by the way, but he has shed the organizational/administrative burden of official chairmanship in favor of a more "emeritus" kind of status. The Chairs are Tommie Usdin, Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Debbie Lapeyre, and myself. All of us are passionately dedicated to organizing a conference which will be exciting, intriguing, provocative, fun, and useful for the XML developer community -- the same kinds of people who read this list. Not to mention the fact that Montreal is exceptionally lovely and salubrious in August. For more info: Extreme@m.... -Steve -- Steven R. Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher, Inc. srn@t... http://www.techno.com ftp.techno.com voice: +1 972 517 7954 fax +1 972 517 4571 Suite 211 7101 Chase Oaks Boulevard Plano, Texas 75025 USA *************************************************************************** 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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