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Thursday, September 9. 2004

SVG Open, Day 3 (cont'd) Posted by Christian in ** English at 09:40

SVG Open, Day 3 (cont'd)

Just finished my talk about server-side SVG generation. This concludes the "work part" on this conference for us (apart from chairing two talks tomorrow), so we can fully focus on the other interesting sessions. Right before the talk, we attended The SVG Wow! Session by Dean Jackson and Vincent Hardy, which showed some quite nice effects (however I still like Dean's Zurich version of the talk - "17.5 things you may not want to know about SVG" - better).

Thursday, September 9. 2004

SVG Open, Day 3 Posted by Christian in ** English at 07:10

SVG Open, Day 3

Day 3's keynotes showed, among other things, DocSoft's some converters with some amazing results, I am really looking forward to the probably more detailled (and technical) session about the DocSoft converters tomorrow, but also the Meister products looked promising. Right now, I am sitting in a session about a project that tries to represent Kanji in SVG. This looks really impressive (though I prefer the Latin letters used at home *g*).

Thursday, September 9. 2004

SVG Open, Day 2 (cont'd) Posted by Christian in ** English at 02:12

SVG Open, Day 2 (cont'd)

Day 2 of SVG Open 2004 ended with a talk by Antoine Quint where he praised the community behind Flash. He showed some community sites, blogs and forums and wished that something like this should be possible for the SVG community, too. Antoine of course had to mention that Macromedia's success is largely due to the great marketing. g
Afterwards, the organizers continued an SVG Open tradition: Many of the attendants went on a dinner boat cruise around Tokyo. The view was just magnificient. I am curious what will happen at next year's conference which will happen in Enschede, Netherlands. A boat cruise seems inprobable, there. A sidenote: At the beginning of the cruise, Andreas Neumann said that the buffet will be hard to beat for next year's conference. I already have an idea how it would be possible: Enough food (I started with a salad and when I returned for "the real deal", nothing was left) ...