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#nv11

That was what we put on the front of the t-shirts this year, #nv11. Some bright spark (I for­get who, sorry, the two days blur together a bit) poin­ted out that the t-shirts were green with NV, which was an impress­ive pun, or at least bet­ter than any­thing I could come up with on my own. […]

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2011 05 18 Comments (1)

Keynotes and Journeys

Every year, when we start organ­ising North­ern Voice, the ques­tion comes up about key­notes. Key­notes set the tone of a con­fer­ence, they indic­ate some­thing of what the organ­ising com­mit­tee is think­ing, or what they think the com­munity that sup­ports the con­fer­ence might want to hear about. This year, I wanted to find someone as a […]

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2011 04 18 Comments (2)

Submissions Season

It seems that the north­ern hemi­sphere spring is the reg­u­lar sea­son for sub­mit­ting papers for two of my favour­ite con­fer­ences. So I guess that means it’s the reg­u­lar sea­son for remind­ing y’all, and being reminded of the dif­fer­ent styles of con­fer­ence. First up, because the dead­line for abstracts is Monday March 14, is North­ern Voice, […]

2011 03 10 Comments (0)

XML Summer School 2009

The XML Sum­mer School in Oxford at the end of Septem­ber was the usual mix of inter­est­ing present­a­tions, punt­ing, good dis­cus­sions in the pubs, and wan­der­ing around old build­ings. The pho­tos I took have none of the first, little of the last, and an over-proportional num­ber of punt­ing and pubs, mostly because that’s when the […]

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2009 11 20 Comments (0)

Gearing up for Oxford

This year the XML Sum­mer School in Oxford is at the end of Septem­ber, rather a change from pre­vi­ous years, when it was in July. This morn­ing on the organ­ising call we decided that we need to go punt­ing on the Monday before din­ner rather than after din­ner, since the even­ings will be dark sooner, […]

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2009 09 04 Comments (0)

Twitter for Conferences

I’ve been asked by a couple of people involved in organ­ising con­fer­ences why they should have a con­fer­ence Twit­ter account, so I fig­ure it’s a gen­eral enough ques­tion to be worth blog­ging. Basic­ally, it’s all about start­ing or con­tinu­ing your con­ver­sa­tion with those who attend, or might attend, or have atten­ded, or are inter­ested in […]

2009 08 04 Comments (2)