Victoria is a beautiful place, and it will be a pleasure to meet there. This being said, it seems a little bit unfair to state that the US is less interested than Europe or Asia in open standards. I was under the impression that HTML and XML are quite successful here!
But with the notable exception of Vancouver, SVG Open was/is organized on the campus of some nice Universities (Tokyo, Enschede, Victoria,...). In the US, you will need to go after Companies to organize such a thing. You asked individual developers, and this won't do. Besides, SVG on the desktop is still (at best) a few years away from being successful. SVG Mobile is the big thing here so unless we are ready to shift the focus from SVG desktop to SVG Mobile, it will be difficult to capture the attention of the US. My 2 cents, with the others... Marc --- In [email protected], "Andreas Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Francis, > > it was the original plan to have the SVG.Open 2006 conference in the US. I approached > Michael Bolger about investigating the possibility to have it somewhere in California. ..... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/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/

