Hi Sara, here are a few opinions from my point of view. I am still in Japan, just came back from a hike in the japanese alps ;-)
I really enjoyed the conference, though it was smaller than the two previous conferences. It was well organized and people were very friendly and helped where they could. One focus was of course SVG mobile. There was a full day track on SVG for location based services. SVG is proposed by KDDI and NTT datacenter people (the two major mobile companies in Japan) as a standard to be used in Location Based Services. The prototypes and specifications by KDDI seem to be mature and one could try their apps at the exhibition. Zoomon and Adobe announced a collaboration for an SVG animation editor to be released later this year. The idea is to create artwork in Adobe Illustrator, structure and name it accordingly and then edit it further in the Zoomon animation tool. The product looked promising, but still lacks a few key features that would make it compelling for me (e.g. keySplines support or morphing for one path into another). Though it is a first version of course and will meet the needs of most content creators. Besides zoomon, there is of course the Beatware product that also supports SVG mobile and animation editing. Another main topic was document creation and conversion. Various companies showed solutions to convert existing content into SVG, e.g. from cgm, dxf, Visio, pdf. Antenna house has an XSL-FO engine that can convert SVG to PDF and also supports the XHTML/ SVG/MathML conversion to SVG or PDF. Very interesting product ... Docsoft showed a CGM to SVG conversion that also supports Metadata and basic interactivity (e.g. links). They also have a XML search engine that can be used to index SVG or other XML data. Meister showed Visio and dxf to SVG conversions and interactive mapping with SVG. I did not attend the friday afternoon keynote sessions and cannot tell what Resologic (another document creation company) and Chris Lilley presented. The facilities at Keio University were excellent: Wireless Lan and huge screens for presentations. Also, the people at the registration desk were very polite. The translation services ran smoothly - it was easy to follow the japanese presented sessions. Things I would like to see for next years conference: it would be useful to have the coffee break at the exhibition room/hall (well probably was not that easy at Keio University). More advertising for the conference would be useful and a earlier organisation. Quite a few people could not attend because everything was so late. All in all I think it was a interesting and well organized conference. Thanks Jun for the organisation! Andreas --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "sara_j_porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even though the event just happened, I can't wait. I'm sorry. I > really would love to hear the opinions of those who attended the SVG > Open 2004. > > I've kept up with the blogs (JD even posted a list of those who were > going to blog the Open on HIS blog! Mucho thanks!)... but would like > to hear more discussion. > > Any suggestions for next year? I plan on helping Ruud to develop > a "designer's track". > > Floors open... > > Sara Porter ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
