From: Rick McGowan (rick@unicode.org)
Date: Mon Oct 24 2005 - 13:34:50 CST
Hello everyone --
Here is some good news for all of you who have been planning to send in
abstracts for IUC 29! The deadline for submission has been extended.
Please, if you're planning to participate, send in an abstract today!
Regards,
Rick McGowan
Unicode, Inc.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Stephanie Covert
Object Management Group
+1-781-444 0404 ext. 142
info@unicodeconference.org
IUC 29 Call for Participation Deadline Extended
San Francisco, Calif., March 6-8, 2006
Mountain View, CA, USA – October 24, 2005 – The
Unicode® Consortium is extending the deadline for
submission for its call for participation in The
Twenty-ninth Internationalization & Unicode
Conference (IUC). IUC 29 will take place in San
Francisco, California, USA on March 6-8, 2006. The
call for participation has been extended to run
until October 31. All conference and call details
are available at
http://www.unicodeconference.org/IUC29call.
The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is
the premier technical conference for both software
and Web internationalization. It is the only
industry event sanctioned by the Unicode
Consortium. Each IUC conference features a variety
of tutorials and conference sessions that cover
current topics related to Web and software
internationalization, globalization, and Unicode.
Companies are specifically invited to submit case
studies on their globalization efforts. The
conference Program Committee is also seeking
technical and business-focused presentations on
case studies, experience reports, evaluations or
research papers on topics relevant to (but not
limited to):
- Web internationalization
- Text and data mining
- New and upcoming technologies
- Enterprise software in a global environment
- Web services, SOA and Internationalization
- Security and phishing
- Language tags and locales: implications for
developers
- Making scripts and languages accessible
- Global development best practices
- What’s new with Unicode 4.0
- Internationalized Domain Names/Internationalized
Resource Identifiers
- Tips, tricks and potential traps in developing
international software
- Successful implementations of Unicode 4.0
- Globalizing your product, the business cases and
technical issues
In addition, proposals for panel sessions in any
of the above areas are also welcomed. Proposals
are welcomed for quarter and half-day tutorials on
established techniques in any of the areas touched
on in this call. Those interested in holding
Birds-of-a-Feather meetings should contact Kevin
Loughry at loughry@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404.
Unicode experts, implementers, clients and vendors
are invited to attend this unique conference. The
interactive format makes the Internationalization
& Unicode Conference a great place to meet and
exchange ideas with leading experts, find out
about the needs of potential clients, or get
information about new and existing Unicode-enabled
products.
Interested individuals or organizations are
invited to submit a brief (up to 600 word)
abstract of their proposed conference presentation
by the revised deadline of October 31 using this
Web form:
http://www.unicodeconference.org/abstracts.
The Program Committee will select presentations
for inclusion in the program and notify authors by
November 16. Final presentation materials will be
required from all selected presenters by January
16, 2006. The final conference agenda and
registration details will be available by January
16 and posted at http://www.unicodeconference.org.
Exhibit space is available; for more information
on exhibiting contact Sandy Burke at sandy@omg.org
or +1-781-444 0404. For sponsorship opportunities,
contact Nicole Rikkinen at nicole@omg.org. For all
other conference-related questions contact Kevin
Loughry at loughry@omg.org, +1-781-444 0404.
The conference is produced by The Object
Management Group™ (OMG™) and is sponsored by Basis
Technology (www.basistech.com), media sponsors
MultiLingual Computing Inc. (www.multilingual.com)
and Localisation Research Centre
(www.localisation.ie) and organizational sponsors
Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA)
(www.lisa.org) and the Globalization and
Localization Association (GALA)
(www.gala-global.org).
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About The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit
organization founded to develop, extend and
promote use of the Unicode Standard and related
globalization standards.
The membership of the consortium represents a
broad spectrum of corporations and organizations
in the computer and information processing
industry. Members are: Adobe Systems, L'Agence
Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, Apple
Computer, Basis Technology, Denic e.G., Government
of India - Ministry of Information Technology,
Government of Pakistan - National Language
Authority, HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft,
Monotype Imaging, Oracle, RLG, SAP, Sun
Microsystems, Sybase, The University of California
at Berkeley, VeriSign, Yahoo! and about one
hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual
members.
For more information, please contact the Unicode
Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/).
Note to editors: Unicode Standard, Unicode and the
Unicode Logo are trademarks of Unicode, Inc.
Unicode Consortium is a registered trademark of
Unicode, Inc. OMG and Object Management Group are
trademarks of Object Management Group.
About the Event Producer
The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) is the new
Event Producer for the Internationalization &
Unicode Conferences. The OMG is an open
membership, not-for-profit consortium that
produces and maintains computer industry
specifications for interoperable enterprise
applications. Our specifications include MDA®,
UML®, CORBA®, MOF™, XMI® and CWM™. OMG’s
specifications are all available for download by
everyone without charge.
OMG has been producing events for fifteen years
and provides a full range of conference management
services and expertise—from conference
development, production and support to targeted
messaging and media promotion. OMG’s proven team
of in-house staff and contract service providers
have years of experience organizing, producing and
managing large-scale events including Object
World, EclipseCon, the OSDL Enterprise Linux
Summit and now the Internationalization & Unicode
Conference. In addition, OMG currently produces
five OMG Technical Meetings, and nine conferences
and workshops every year for its members, in
locations around the world.
OMG’s in-house team includes experts in Marketing,
Public Relations and Event Management. OMG also
has longstanding relationships with contract
service providers who specialize in event
logistics. Bill Hoffman, President and CEO, leads
the team. Mr. Hoffman has been involved with trade
shows and conferences on both the exhibitor and
producer sides of the house for more than twenty
years, including his position of President and CEO
of Object World Corporation, the producer of trade
shows and conferences on object-oriented
technology and OMG’s work. For more information
about OMG, visit us online at http://www.omg.org.
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