Anyway

The final sched­ule is up on the XML 2005 web site and I think it’s the best yet (maybe I say that every year, but there are some really good talks on the pro­gram this year). We have big com­pan­ies talk­ing about what they’re doing, small com­pan­ies talk­ing about new tech­no­lo­gies, and inde­pend­ent people talk­ing about what they’re cook­ing up in their base­ments or gar­ages. There are talks for the new­comers to XML, talks for the cyn­ics, and talks for those in between, so take a look!

And of course the tutori­als are avail­able for regis­tra­tion; I’d urge every­one who is inter­ested in attend­ing a tutori­al to register as soon as pos­sible. If we don’t get enough regis­trants for some tutori­als we need to can­cel them, which is dis­ap­point­ing for the con­fer­ence, and the tutori­al presenter, and espe­cially for people who wanted to attend the tutori­al but did­n’t register in time. You don’t need to attend the con­fer­ence to attend a tutori­al; we try to be flex­ible to meet attendees’ needs (per­son­ally I think you should, of course, but every­one has dif­fer­ent ideas as to what they want to do in any giv­en year).

There are also more ways to take part in the con­fer­ence: every registered con­fer­ence attendee, as well as registered booth staff, can put up a poster (or two). Posters can be on any (reas­on­able) sub­ject; posters on new product ideas, new tech­no­logy ideas, form­ing groups to work on either of the above, advert­ising your avail­ab­il­ity for full-time hire, or advert­ising your con­sult­ing ser­vices are all wel­come. The poster dead­line for guar­an­teed space is Novem­ber 4; space may be avail­able at the con­fer­ence as well, but that’s not guaranteed.

We also have an art­work exhib­it each year to show how tech­no­logy and artistry are not mutu­ally exclus­ive; any ideas are wel­come. These pieces are shown next to the pieces in the exhib­it hall, so any­one can admire your work, wheth­er signed or anonym­ous. Dead­line to guar­an­tee space is Octo­ber 28; there may be space avail­able later as well.

It’s going to be a fun and inter­est­ing con­fer­ence again this year, I can just tell!