CfP: 29th Internationalization & Unicode Conference, San Francisco CA, March 6-8, 2006

What: 	Call for Participation: 29th Internationalization & Unicode
Conference
When: 	March 6-8, 2006
Where: 	San Francisco, California, USA
Info: 	http://www.unicodeconference.org/IUC29call


The Unicode® Consortium issued a call for participation in the 29th
Internationalization & Unicode
Conference. The call for participation runs until October 24. All
conference and call details are available
at http://www.unicodeconference.org/IUC29call. Companies are
specifically invited to submit case
studies on their globalization efforts. The conference Program
Committee is also seeking technical and
business-focused presentations on case studies, experience reports,
evaluations or research papers on
topics relevant to (but not limited to):

- Web internationalization
- Text and data mining
- New and upcoming technologies
- Enterprise software in a global environment
- Web services, SOA and Internationalization
- Security and phishing
- Language tags and locales: implications for developers
- Making scripts and languages accessible
- Global development best practices
- What's new with Unicode 4.0
- Internationalized Domain Names/Internationalized Resource Identifiers
- Tips, tricks and potential traps in developing international software
- Successful implementations of Unicode 4.0
- Globalizing your product, the business cases and technical issues

Proposals are welcomed for panel sessions and quarter and half-day
tutorials on established techniques in
any of the areas touched on in this call. Those interested in holding
Birds-of-a-Feather meetings should
contact Kevin Loughry with their suggestions at [email protected],
+1-781-444 0404.

Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief
(up to 600 word) abstract of their
proposed conference presentation by October 24 using this web form:
http://www.unicodeconference.org/abstracts.

Important Dates
October 24, 2005	Call for Participation deadline
November 4, 2005	Notification of presenters
January 16, 2006	Final conference agenda posted
February 1, 2006	Early-bird registration deadline
March 6-8, 2006	IUC 29

The conference is produced by The Object Management Group™ (OMG™)
and is sponsored by media
sponsor MultiLingual Computing Inc. (www.multilingual.com) and
organizational sponsors Localization
Industry Standards Association (LISA) (www.lisa.org) and the
Globalization and Localization
Association (GALA) (www.gala-global.org)


About The Unicode Consortium
The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit organization founded to develop,
extend and promote use of the
Unicode Standard and related globalization standards.

The membership of the consortium represents a broad spectrum of
corporations and organizations in the
computer and information processing industry. Members are: Adobe
Systems, L'Agence
Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, Apple Computer, Basis
Technology, Denic e.G., Government
of India - Ministry of Information Technology, Government of Pakistan -
National Language Authority,
HP, IBM, Justsystem, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Oracle, RLG, SAP, Sun
Microsystems, Sybase, The
University of California at Berkeley, VeriSign, Yahoo! and about one
hundred Associate, Liaison, and
Individual members.

For more information, please contact the Unicode Consortium
(http://www.unicode.org/).



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About The OMG

The Object Management Group™ (OMG™) is the Event Producer for the
Internationalization & Unicode Conferences.
The 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.

OMG has been producing events for fifteen years and provides a full
range of conference management services and expertise-from conference
development, production and support to targeted messaging and media
promotion.
OMG's proven team of in-house staff and contract service providers
have years of experience organizing, producing and managing large-scale
events including Object World, EclipseCon, the OSDL Enterprise Linux
Summit and now the Internationalization & Unicode Conference. In
addition, OMG currently produces five OMG Technical Meetings, and nine
conferences and workshops every year for its members, in locations
around the world.

OMG's in-house team includes experts in Marketing, Public Relations
and Event Management. OMG also has longstanding relationships with
contract service providers who specialize in event logistics. Bill
Hoffman, President and CEO, leads the team. Mr. Hoffman has been
involved with trade shows and conferences on both the exhibitor and
producer sides of the house for more than twenty years, including his
position of President and CEO of Object World Corporation, the producer
of trade shows and conferences on object-oriented technology and
OMG's work.
For more information about OMG, visit us online at http://www.omg.org.

 
OMG has offices at 250 First Ave., Suite 100, Needham, MA 02494 USA.