Andreas, I totally agree with this.
To clarify a bit, I don't mean that we should focus only on the Mobile SVG side. I only believe that most companies interested in SVG in the Bay Area are interested mainly in the Mobile side. But the Bay Area is not the world! Marc --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "Andreas Neumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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! > > that was probably a inconsiderate statement of mine - I apologize. > > > 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. > > I have nothing against more commercialization. I think it is > necessary and there is more demand towards that direction. But I > would not like the commercialization aspect to be overwhelming. And > the conference should be affordable also to students and OS > programmers (be it through rebates, scolarships or both). If there > is more commercialization of the conference we have to ensure that > the quality of the conference remains high. Otherwise we run into > the risk that conference attendees can only talk to (sometimes > technically incompetent) sales people and can't reach the developers > and content creators. That said, I would welcome more commercial > support in the conference, but in a controlled way. > > But you have to discuss these issues mainly with Kurt Cagle who also > runs a separate forum for the conference preparation. > > If university people organize the SVG.Open conference you also have > to take into account that these people (I include myself into that > group) are probably not that experienced in marketing and would > probably need a hand from you guys from the marketing world. On the > other hand, using university facilities for cheap (or free in some > cases) was/is also invaluable and I doubt if the first SVG.Open > conferences would have made it without the help of universities. > > > 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. > > Well, if you look at the proceedings and contributions of the past > SVG.Open conferences SVG mobile was always very well represented. > SVG mobile always had own tracks and a high percentage of the > presentations covered that topic. > > I agree that one could discuss putting the mobile aspect into the > conference title/subtitle or more prominently marketing that aspect. > > Personally, I would very regret if the SVG people, community and the > W3C would only go after the mobile market and neglect the desktop. I > think both desktop and mobile can benefit from each other and I > would not separate the two in future SVG.Open conferences. SVG has > much to offer on the desktop even if its market share is not yet too > big. > > All the best, > Andreas ------------------------ 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/
