Hey guys,

Is there anyone slightly local who might be up to making SVG Open and giving a talk or teaching a class? I'm going to see what I can do, but the more people we have getting involved the better. And as we saw at SCALE, with different people submitting proposals on different subjects, there's a better chance of at least something matching the need and being accepted.

Additionally, is there anyone who might be able to make it to man a booth? From things like SCALE and LugRadio Live I've seen how just having *anyone* there can be helpful. In fact, some times the booths manned by people who might not be core developers but who are users and just excited about the project can be some of the best.

Thanks, and I hope we get a few more people stepping up, despite the deadline being so close. :-)

On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:22 AM, Andreas Neumann wrote:

Hello Inkscape Developers and Users,

The SVG Open 2008 will take place in Nuremberg, Germany, from August 26 to 29.

We would appreciate if we could have one or more presentations and a course on Inkscape. We could also have a Inkscape presentation as a keynote at the conference. See http://www.svgopen.org/2008/index.php? section=participate_presenters for more information.

We are also still looking for course instructors: courses will be 150 minutes in length, course instructors will receive a free conference pass. See http://www.svgopen.org/2008/index.php?section=participate_workshops for more information.

Please contact me if you have questions and submit your paper abstracts and course proposals at http://www.svgopen.org/

Official Call for Papers:

Call for Papers, SVG Open 2008 http://www.svgopen.org/

The 6th international conference on Scalable Vector Graphics will take place from August 26 to 28 in Nuremberg, Southern Germany. 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, a technical exhibition, and the opportunity to meet people from the SVG community, industry and the W3C SVG Working Group.

The SVG Open 2008 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 April 18, 2008. The abstracts are reviewed by a reviewing committee and presenters will be informed about acceptance on or before May 15, 2008. If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to submit your full paper by August 1, 2008, according to instructions that will be sent to you. Accepted abstracts, papers and presentations will be published on the conference hand-outs and web proceedings. Paper Abstracts can be submitted at http://www.svgopen.org/ until April 18. 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 of 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
• Making Graphics Acessible
• Interactivity and Scripting
• GUI Frameworks for Web Applications
• File Format Conversion
• Case Studies

Course Instructors are asked to submit a course outline by April 18, 2008. The outlines are reviewed by a reviewing committee and instructors will be informed about acceptance on or before April 29, 2008. Accepted course instructors will receive a free conference pass and may participate at the come together event for free. 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 of August 29, 2008. 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

Thank you for considering a paper or course abstract submission. Hope to see many of you in Nuremberg!

The SVG Open 2008 organizing committee.

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Thanks, Andreas

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