SVG in GNOME / meeting SVG community at SVG Open 2009 (call for participation. "SVG coming of age" at Google, Mountain View)

[Ruud Steltenpool <svg steltenpower com>]

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics, a (web) standard) is also moving into 
desktop OS space, especially free desktops. SVG is used for wallpapers, 
menus, icons and content of many applications installed by default.

Loads of overlap, good reasons for communities meeting. SVG Open 2009 is
 a great opportunity for that. You're invited to participate:

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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
    * SVG Wow!

Though we already have a super facility for most of the conference
including of course 'normal' presentations, 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



More information via http://svgopen.org

See you in Mountain View,

Regards,

Ruud Steltenpool
SVG Open