[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Call for Speakers Software Development Boston 2001
Once again I'm chairing the XML track for Software Development 2001 East, and I'm looking for interesting speakers who'd like to talk about things XMLish. This year the show has moved to Boston, and will take place from August 27-31. Besides the change in venue, this year also sees the introduction of the co-located Web Services World, which I'm not involved with, but which some of you might also be interested in submitting proposals for. This is a hardcore developers show, but not a deep XML show. Attendees are looking for meaty, technical, how-to presentations on specific technologies like schemas, DTDs, SAX, DOM, JDOM, XLinks, XQuery, Schematron, RELAX, WML, etc. Some things we are NOT looking for (at least in the XML track) are very broad analyses of business cases for XML, introductions to XML itself, very academic presentations on hypertext theory, or advanced seminars that assume attendees are already intimate with schemas, XLinks, XSLT, and so forth. Of course this is all relative toward the knowledge level of the audience. At this point, I think we could probably justify an advanced DTDs talk that discussed modularization using parameter entity references and namespaces. However, we probably wouldn't accept the same talk if it used schemas instead of DTDs because few people in our audience know a lot about schemas yet. However, we would be interested in a basic intro to schemas. In other words, this is a show geared towards working programmers, not a show geared toward academics, managers, or XML experts. We find our attendees come to this track to learn about XML, not because they already know a lot about XML and want to debate the finer arcana, so aim your talks at beginner and intermediate users, not the people who regularly post to this mailing list and write for XML.com. Ideally, we want a broad mix of technologies and presentations so attendees can walk in the first day of the show knowing nothing about XML, and walk out the last day having a solid grasp of what all the pieces of the XML puzzle are, how they fit together, and know enough to start using them. We have approximately one dozen 90-minute slots to fill. We are also open to intermediate level, 1-day tutorials on special topics like XSLT or Schemas. For the most part, we'll be looking for experienced speakers to fill these. If this is your first time presenting at a conference like this, it would be better to start with a couple of seminars rather than a full-day session. You can submit abstracts online at http://www.sdexpo.com/2001/east/speakers/ The deadline for abstracts is May 1, 2001. Please submit your abstracts as soon as possible. Abstracts which are selected will receive notification by email no later than May 15. Unfortunately, due to the volume of abstracts we receive, we cannot notify every submission regarding their status. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible (IDG Books, 1999) | | http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/books/bible/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764532367/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://metalab.unc.edu/javafaq/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://metalab.unc.edu/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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