Hi Marc, >go after Companies to >organize such a thing. You asked individual developers
I was an "investigator":) , I am very happy with Victoria. My apologies for not contacting you as to San Francisco, Discussed/dialog with many contacts with companies in the area. Funding processes are time consuming, and in this case rather problematic as to other factors. best regards Michael m_verstaen wrote: >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. > >..... > > > > > >----- >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 > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ 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/
