<div dir="ltr">Anybody want to do a presentation on Booki translation? I would myself if I had funding to attend the conference.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Unicode Conference</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:programs@unicodeconference.org">programs@unicodeconference.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 17:23<br>Subject: Call for Participation - Thirty-fifth Internationalization & Unicode® Conference - October 17-19, 2011<br>To: <a href="mailto:echerlin@gmail.com">echerlin@gmail.com</a><br><br>
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                                                                The Unicode® Consortium 

                                announces a call for participation in the 

                                Thirty-fifth Internationalization & 

                                Unicode® Conference (IUC 35), taking place in 

                                Santa Clara, Calif., USA; October 17-19, 2011,

                                sponsored by Adobe. 

                                The conference is produced by OMG®.</p>

                                <p align="left">This is the premier conference 

                                on technologies and practices for the creation 

                                and management of global and multilingual 

                                software solutions. This annual event is praised 

                                for its excellent technical content, 

                                industry-tested recommendations and updates on 

                                the latest standards.</p>

                                <p align="left">The Program Committee is 

                                soliciting proposals for presentations that 

                                describe cases studies, best practices, 

                                effective software design, innovative 

                                technology, or important standards. Tutorial 

                                presentations are also welcome. Suitable topics 

                                include, but are not limited to:</p>

                                <p align="left"><b><font size="2" color="#7285c2">Application 

                                Areas</font></b></p>



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                                    <td valign="top" width="5%" align="center"><img src="" alt="bullet" height="10" width="7" border="0"></td>

                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Designing 

                                      software platforms, operating systems, 

                                      software as a service, (SAAS), or 

                                      programming environments</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Social networks</td>

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                                    <td valign="top" width="5%" align="center"><img src="" alt="bullet" height="10" width="7" border="0"></td>

                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Search engines, 

                                      SEO, discovery and navigation best 

                                      practices</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Websites and 

                                      web services</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Libraries and 

                                      education</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Mobile 

                                      applications, including iPhone, Android, 

                                      iPad, Kindle, Windows Mobile, etc.</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Publishing and 

                                      broadcasting for a global audience</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Internationalized 

                                      Domain Names and other identifiers</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Security 

                                      concerns and practices</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Voice to text, 

                                      text to voice</td>

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                                      translation</td>

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                                      encodings, scripts, character properties, 

                                      and algorithms</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Semantic Web</td>

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                                                                <font size="2" color="#7285c2">General 

                                Techniques</font></b></p>

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                                    <td valign="top" width="5%" align="center"><img src="" alt="bullet" height="10" width="7" border="0"></td>

                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Advances in 

                                      technologies, algorithms or methodologies</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Using 

                                      internationalization libraries and 

                                      programming environments</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Handling 

                                      bidirectional or other complex 

                                      scriptsDealing with data formats: XML, 

                                      JSON, HTML5, DITA, and upcoming standards</td>

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                                      management and methodologies for global 

                                      development teams e.g. Agile</td>

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                                      in localization process and technology</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Best practices 

                                      in world-ready development, test, and 

                                      deployment</td>

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                                      globalization capabilities within 

                                      organizations</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Approaches for 

                                      migrating legacy applications to global 

                                      markets</td>

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                                    <td width="93%" align="left">Font 

                                      development and Typography</td>

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                                                                <font size="2" color="#7285c2">Culture and 

                                Technology</font></b></p>

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                                      Languages</td>

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                                      Languages</td>

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                                      and research on cross-culture 

                                      communication</td>

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                                                                <font size="2" color="#7285c2">Regional 

                                Considerations</font></b></p>

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                                                                        Africa, Asia, and the Middle East</td>

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                                      Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)</td>

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                                <p align="left">Tutorial presenters receive  

                                complimentary conference registration, and two  

                                nights lodging. Session presenters receive a  

                                fifty percent conference discount and two nights  

                                lodging.</p>

                                <p align="left"> To be considered as a presenter 

                                for the conference, <font color="#800080">please 

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                                                                <a href="http://www.unicodeconference.org/abstracts.htm" target="_blank">submit</a></b> a brief abstract by Friday, March 25</font>.

                                </p><p align="left"> The Program Committee will 

                                notify authors by Wednesday, April 20. Final 

                                presentation materials will be required from 

                                selected presenters by Wednesday, August 3.

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                        <td><font size="1"><b>About The Unicode

              Consortium</b><br>

              The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to

              develop, extend and promote use of the Unicode Standard and

              related globalization standards.</font>

              <p><font size="1">The membership of the consortium represents a

              broad spectrum of corporations and organizations in the computer

              and information processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems,

              Apple, Google, Government of Bangladesh, Government of India, IBM,

              Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Oracle, SAP, The Society for Natural

              Language Technology Research, The University of California

              (Berkeley), The University of California (Santa Cruz), Yahoo!,

              plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and Individual

              members.</font></p>



              <p><font size="1">For more information, please contact the </font><a href="http://www.unicode.org/contacts.html" target="_blank"><font size="1">Unicode

              Consortium</font></a><font size="1">.</font></p>

              <p><font size="1"><b>About the Event Producer</b><br>

              OMG® is the Event Producer for the Internationalization &

              Unicode Conferences. OMG is an open membership, not-for-profit

              consortium that produces and maintains computer industry

              specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. Our

              specifications include MDA®, UML®, CORBA®, MOF™, XMI® and

              CWM™. OMG's specifications are all available for download by

              everyone without charge.</font></p>



              <p><font size="1">For more information about OMG, visit us online

              at </font><a href="http://www.omg.org" target="_blank"><font size="1">http://www.omg.org</font></a><font size="1">.</font></p>

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