Date:         Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:55:40 -0700
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              2006 in Washington, D.C.
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The message below from Mark Davis, Unicode President, gives details
about the upcoming conference in Washington DC. Early-bird rates end
soon!

Apologies for double posting, but not everyone on one of the lists
will be on the other.

-- Joan Aliprand

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Davis <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sep 27, 2006 11:00 AM
Subject: Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Nov 15-17, 2006 in
Washington, D.C.

I'd like to make you all aware of the upcoming Internationalization &
Unicode Conference (IUC 30), which will be the only one held in the US
until the fourth quarter of 2007. The program offers excellent
tutorials covering Unicode and internationalization in depth, and new,
detailed presentations on adapting software to meet the requirements
of different markets around the world. I'd urge anyone working with
Unicode to attend.

Building on the success of IUC 29, the program features case studies
from Google, eBay and others covering concrete aspects of
implementations, not just the theories involved. In one of my
presentations, for example, I'll talk about many of the facets of
dealing with very large scale use of Unicode here at Google, as well
as some surprising and useful statistics about the use of Unicode on
the web. It's also time to learn about the features of Unicode 5.0 --
see http://www.unicode.org/press/pr-5.0preorders.html for more
information on this major new release.


The conference offers strong coverage of internationalization issues
with sessions in four tracks:
Web Internationalization,
Techniques/Case Studies,
Applications, and

Languages/Scripts. We've got a great keynote presentation by Nicolas
Negroponte, chairman of One Laptop Per Child. We are also going to
have an exclusive book signing of the all-new Unicode 5.0 book. As
usual, people will have the great networking opportunities they've
come to expect from this conference. We're excited about the program
and know that attendees are going to get a lot of value out of their
participation. If you have not yet taken a look, I'd encourage you to
visit http://www.unicodeconference.org/conference-at-a-glance.htm.



We are hoping for a strong turnout from the members of the Unicode
Consortium and others connected with Unicode. To register for the
conference, visit http://www.unicodeconference.org/registration.htm.
Register before October 2, 2006 to receive the early-bird discount in
addition to your Unicode membership discount. If you have any
questions about the conference, please contact Kevin Loughry,
[log in to unmask] or +1-781-444 0404. I look forward to seeing you at
IUC 30.

Regards,

Mark Davis

President and co-founder, Unicode Consortium