New XML Conference Site

Up till now, the XML Con­fer­ence web sites have been HTML-based with no con­tent man­age­ment fea­tures. For this year, we decided to take the plunge, so we can more eas­ily add fea­tures such as RSS feeds, col­lab­or­at­ive pages, and news aggreg­a­tion from spon­sors, exhib­it­ors, and speakers. 

With help from Bor­is Mann we have a Drupal-based site, hos­ted by Bryght. The site has been up for a week, and I think we’ve caught most of the bugs, but let Dave Kunkel know if you find any problems.

I’ve been look­ing for­ward to hav­ing these fea­tures for a while. We have aggreg­at­ors that hook to Pub­Sub feeds on “xmlconference.org” and “XMLConf2005”, so if you use one of those your blog entry should show up in the aggreg­at­or. We have an RSS feed for the front page to make it easi­er to keep up with changes. We can put up sub-sites for exhib­it­ors or speak­ers a lot more eas­ily than before. There are lots more fea­tures that we’re still fig­ur­ing out how best to use; sug­ges­tions on what we should do to make the site more use­ful to exhib­it­ors, speak­ers, and attendees, are welcome!