Dia at SVG conference? call for participation

[Ruud Steltenpool <svg steltenpower com>]

From http://svgopen.org/2009/participate.shtml :

 The 7th international conference on Scalable Vector Graphics will take 
place from October 2-4, 2009, in Mountain View, California, hosted by 
Google at the Crittenden Campus. At this conference you can learn about 
subjects varying from specialized technical visualizations to 
interactive multimedia art. On the program there are presentations, 
beginner and advanced level workshops, and the opportunity to meet 
people from the SVG community, industry and the W3C SVG Working Group.

The SVG Open 2009 organizing committee is looking for contributors 
presenting a paper or teaching a course. Presenters are asked to submit 
an extended abstract in English with an approximate length of 400 to 800 
words by May 15 to http://www.svgopen.org/. The abstracts are reviewed 
by a reviewing committee and presenters will be informed about 
acceptance on or before June 26. If your abstract is accepted, you will 
be asked to submit your full paper by August 31, according to 
instructions that will be sent to you. Accepted abstracts, papers and 
presentations will be published in web proceedings.

Following is a list of potential presentation topics:

    * Mobile (handheld, in-car) Solutions
    * SVG Authoring Tools
    * Publishing and Printing with SVG
    * SVG Text and Internationalization
    * Accessibility Issues with SVG
    * Location-based Services
    * Business Cases and Case Studies
    * Workflow for Creating and Using SVG
    * SVG and Digital Television
    * Graphic Design with SVG
    * SVG for Webmapping and Online GIS/GML
    * SVG for Multimedia Presentations
    * Server-side SVG Generators and Manipulators
    * SVG Authoring Techniques
    * SVG with Other Web Standards (e.g., HTML, XSLT)
    * Interactivity and Scripting
    * GUI Frameworks for Web Applications
    * File Format Conversion
    * Case Studies
    * SVG Wow!

We are still investigating a venue for holding workshops and courses. At 
the moment we cannot guarantee that courses can be held. Nevertheless, 
since courses and workshops had always been popular at past SVG Open 
conferences we will do our best to find a suitable venue. Potential 
course instructors are asked to submit a course outline by May 15. The 
outlines will be reviewed by a committee and instructors will be 
informed about acceptance on or before June 26. Accepted course 
instructors will receive a free conference pass and admission to the 
dinner event. Accepted course outlines will be published as course 
descriptions in the program. Therefore they should be directed at those 
who might register for the course rather than the reviewers. Courses are 
150 minutes in length, scheduled for the morning and afternoon at the 
day before or after the main conference. We are interested in proposals 
for both beginner courses and advanced courses to cater to the diverse 
interests of all conference attendees. Here is a list of topics of 
potential interest for courses. Feel free to either volunteer for one of 
these or propose your own topic.

    * Introduction to SVG
    * SVG Authoring Techniques
    * Creating Mobile SVG content
    * UI Design
    * Using SVG Tools
    * CSS
    * XSLT
    * SMIL Animation
    * ECMAScript and the DOM
    * Graphic Design
    * SVG Filter Effects
    * Rendering Algorithms
    * Generating SVG from Database Content