{"id":56,"date":"2005-01-10T16:19:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T00:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/01\/10\/xml-conference-oaq\/"},"modified":"2007-10-04T14:00:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T21:00:23","slug":"xml-conference-oaq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2005\/01\/xml-conference-oaq\/","title":{"rendered":"XML<\/span> Conference OAQ<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not going to be a XML<\/span> 2004 Con\u00adfer\u00adence<\/a> wrap-up, for sev\u00ader\u00adal reas\u00adons. Mostly because oth\u00ader people have writ\u00adten about the con\u00adfer\u00adence and the ses\u00adsions they went to, partly because I did\u00adn\u2019t man\u00adage to make it to very many ses\u00adsions myself, and partly because it\u2019s really far too late. The lead-up to the con\u00adfer\u00adence is always very intense, the week itself is even more so, and it takes some time before I can col\u00adlect my thoughts suf\u00adfi\u00adciently to write a post\u00ading. I have a few ideas stacked up; this one made it to the top first.<\/p>\n

A few people asked me ques\u00adtions about the con\u00adfer\u00adence so I figured I may as well answer them here, for pos\u00adter\u00adity, or for gen\u00ader\u00adal interest. Hence the OAQ<\/span><\/acronym>. Fre\u00adquently<\/b> Asked Ques\u00adtions are answered on the con\u00adfer\u00adence web site; Occa\u00adsion\u00adally<\/b> Asked Ques\u00adtions can be answered on the chair\u2019s blog. By the way, the answers may or may not apply to the XML<\/span> Con\u00adfer\u00adence in any year that I was\u00adn\u2019t or won\u2019t be chair, i.e., any past or future chair may have dif\u00adfer\u00adent ideas on how things should work.<\/p>\n

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Do you sell key\u00adnote slots?<\/dt>\n
Some con\u00adfer\u00adences do sell key\u00adnote slots (usu\u00adally by guar\u00adan\u00adtee\u00ading a key\u00adnote slot to any com\u00adpany that spon\u00adsors the con\u00adfer\u00adence) but the XML<\/span> Con\u00adfer\u00adence (at least while I\u2019m chair\u00ading) does\u00adn\u2019t. Com\u00adpan\u00adies that do get key\u00adnotes some\u00adtimes decide to spon\u00adsor the con\u00adfer\u00adence, but that\u2019s their decision.<\/dd>\n
So how do you pick key\u00adnote speakers?<\/dt>\n
There are two cat\u00adegor\u00adies of key\u00adnote speak\u00aders \u2014 inter\u00adest\u00ading people, prefer\u00adably with a new or fresh per\u00adspect\u00adive, and people who rep\u00adres\u00adent com\u00adpan\u00adies where the Plan\u00adning Com\u00admit\u00adtee thinks that con\u00adfer\u00adence attendees will be inter\u00adested in the vis\u00adion that com\u00adpany has for some part of the XML<\/span> industry. Some\u00adtimes we\u2019re lucky and a speak\u00ader falls into both categories!<\/dd>\n
What guar\u00adan\u00adteed speak\u00ading slots do spon\u00adsor com\u00adpan\u00adies get?<\/dt>\n
Spon\u00adsor com\u00adpan\u00adies up until XML<\/span> 2004 were guar\u00adan\u00adteed a product present\u00ada\u00adtion slot where they could talk about their products. For all oth\u00ader talks, they need to go through the same pro\u00adced\u00adure as every\u00adbody else and be judged on the qual\u00adity of the abstract, how well it fits into the pro\u00adgram, and how good the speak\u00ader is.<\/dd>\n
\u201c<\/span>up until XML<\/span> 2004\u201d? What does that mean?<\/dt>\n
There\u2019s always the pos\u00adsib\u00adil\u00adity that so many com\u00adpan\u00adies will offer to spon\u00adsor in any giv\u00aden year that guar\u00adan\u00adtee\u00ading a product present\u00ada\u00adtion slot will no longer be pos\u00adsible. I still have no inten\u00adtion of guar\u00adan\u00adtee\u00ading any com\u00adpany, wheth\u00ader spon\u00adsor or not, a speak\u00ading slot that isn\u2019t a product present\u00ada\u00adtion slot. Every\u00adone has to earn their slot!<\/dd>\n
What is a product present\u00ada\u00adtion slot anyway?<\/dt>\n
A product present\u00ada\u00adtion slot is a 45-minute talk that is freed from the con\u00adstraint of not talk\u00ading about products that all oth\u00ader talks need to fol\u00adlow. The idea is that often people really do want to know about products and fea\u00adtures in a present\u00ada\u00adtion set\u00adting, where someone has time to go through import\u00adant fea\u00adtures. Product present\u00ada\u00adtions are selec\u00adted dif\u00adfer\u00adently to oth\u00ader talks; exhib\u00adit\u00adors on the show floor have pref\u00ader\u00adence, talks that show\u00adcase products from more than one vendor work\u00ading togeth\u00ader have pref\u00ader\u00adence, and products that are based on stand\u00adards have pref\u00ader\u00adence. The product talks are in a spe\u00adcial track, so attendees know what they\u2019ll be getting.<\/dd>\n
Some people do show products in the oth\u00ader talks, what\u2019s with that?<\/dt>\n
Tech\u00adnic\u00adal work is often best illus\u00adtrated by show\u00ading a demo. As long as the demo con\u00adcen\u00adtrates on the tech\u00adnic\u00adal aspects of what\u2019s being talked about, and not about whatever cool fea\u00adtures the product has, it still qual\u00adi\u00adfies as a non-product talk. This is a fine line that some people man\u00adage well and oth\u00aders don\u2019t, which is why ses\u00adsion chairs are pre\u00adpared to stop any talk that goes too far into product demon\u00adstra\u00adtion ter\u00adrit\u00adory when it isn\u2019t meant to.<\/dd>\n
I\u2019ve noticed lots of product tutori\u00adals though \u2014 what about those?<\/dt>\n
The Plan\u00adning Com\u00admit\u00adtee dis\u00adcussed this one quite a lot. We decided that there is room for tutori\u00adals on how to use products as long as the products are reas\u00adon\u00adably pop\u00adu\u00adlar, and the tutori\u00adal is clearly labelled as being about product X from Com\u00adpany Y. This ensures that poten\u00adtial attendees know what they are pay\u00ading for. If they don\u2019t want a product tutori\u00adal, they don\u2019t go to it.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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