Since you had so many papers already submitted, why don't you post them to the web? No point in their content going to waste.
--- In [email protected], "Andreas Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello to those interested in visiting SVG.Open 2006, > > Unfortunately, I have to come up with sad news regarding the > conference. > > Because of a serious personal health emergency, the > organizer of this year's conference has regretfully had to cancel > the conference. Unfortunately, at the time the committee was > informed by the cancellation it was already too late to come up with > an alternative organizer for the envisaged date. Our deepest regrets > for those who were looking forward to this year's conference. We > hope that people have not already book flights and hotels. > > Thanks also to those 45 people sending in papers. 45 papers is a > nice result considering the fact that organization went slowly and > information came sparely. Also, there wasn't much advertising made. > > Plans for an SVG.Open 2007 are currently underway, with a different > chair, organization committee and venue. We will inform you as soon > as more information becomes available. > > For those willing to participate in a SVG workshop this year, there > will be an SVG and Webtech workshop in December 2006 in Raleigh, > North Carolina, USA. This workshop, organized by Doug Schepers, will > be aligned with an W3C SVG working group meeting. You can meet with > members of the W3C SVG group and implementors of SVG viewers. Doug > will soon provide more information about this workshop/conference. > > We also invite people who submitted papers for the SVG.Open 2006 > conference, to re-submit them for the SVG.Open 2007 conference. > > As a member of the SVG.Open 2006 conference committee I personally > apologize that the conference will not take place this year. > > Andreas Neumann > ----- 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/
