Balisage is this new XML++1 geekfest, put on by some of the people who used to put on the Extreme Markup conference, which is aimed to get the brain cells running again after summer. It’s being held in Montréal in the middle of August, which means all those street-level restaurants, and brushing up on French cuisine (if not the language).
Oh yes, the deadlines…
If you want to speak at Balisage or the Preconference Symposium on Versioning, you need to submit your full paper by April 18th, using the supplied tag set. If you want to attend, advance registration closes on August 1st, so you have time for that. Hotel reservations must be made by July 1st if you want to stay in the conference hotel. The conference should be fun and mind-boggling at the same time, at least if XML-related theoretical musings are your idea of fun.
1: this means XML is one of the subjects discussed there, and most of the others are in some (albeit tortuous) way related to it.