Diaries (page 3)

My personal favorite of the hotels we list, "Logica" has only 8 rooms left.
It's my favorite because it's very near, between trees, affordable and might even turn out to be a (#)SVG-only place for a few days :-)

2 of the keynotes are now public in the schedule.
One person famous in the SVG community and one you might have never heard of before..

SVG Open 2005 will also feature the Vectoreal sponsored commercial track to provide a venue for companies to promote their services to the appropriate audience with a focus on product introduction and demonstration and on offers of services

Students or other worthy candidates that want to present at SVG Open 2005 and have a financial need for funding can apply for the Vectoreal student awards program

together with the animated banner they're on the SVG Open 2005 promo page
feel free use them.

Check the schedule

As you of course read at svgopen.org: we received an interesting collection of abstracts for paper presentations. (me happy)

Deadlines are a funny thing: well over half of the abstracts came in between early morning day before the deadline and end of the day of the deadline. Were you people trying to make me nervous :-)? Also we received questions about the exact time: is it 0:00h or 24:00? and what timezone?

After the deadline a few more came in and i got promised a couple more.
Of course people who submitted before the deadline get a definite advantage, but you can always submit. With time passing (i've seen the first papers accepted) the chance of fitting your presentation/course/panel in the programme will get slimmer.

About "time passing": Chris Peto made this nice SVG Open 2005 countdown and a SMIL-enhanced version too. thanks Chris.

I was just notified that, in the September 2004 edition of the German magazine "Internet Professionell",
the alternative SVG lyrics on Metallica's "Nothing else matter" were printed:

"Eine Hymne auf SVG war längst überfällig.
In den Yahoo-Groups hat ein treuer Anhänger des Vektorgrafikformats einen alternativen Text zu Metallicas Hit gepostet.
Wow, stellen Sie sich mal die schweren Gitarren und James Hetfields Stimme dazu vor."

Cool :-)

I also did alternative SVG-lyrics on Dire Straits' "Money for nothing", but that was not so good.

The owner of xml.pagina.nl asked me for it,
and not much later Patrick Stuit (a friend of mine) had created it:

All the frames in this animated GIF makes the file a LOT bigger than it would have been in SVG of course, cause with some declarative animation you don't have to declare (=limit) the frame-rate up front, shadows is just some filters, text is just text.
Maybe a good comparison for a later diary entry...

These have all been published in students' media.
If you know a platform where one of the stories can help in letting people know about SVG, please use them in any way you want. chemistry
mathematicians
computer science
construction engineering
physics

The new SVG Open logo:

The result of cooperation between a programmer (working with the code) and a designer (working mainly with WYSIWYG graphical tools).

SVG improves communication.

... at least, that's what it (quite sharply) says in Light up the web, with Flash and LAMP. Cause i know people that do a great job editing graphics from the text editor and i can't believe they're all not in their right mind, on the contrary i believe, i had to react (a bit sharply):

Next to reading svg.org regularly and some of it feeds, i also sometimes ask Google for SVG news
. Which at the moment results in this nice top 3:

• CorelDraw Graphics Suite 12.0: A Complete Graphics Package In One
  such as better font control (easy Unicode character access) and import/export support (export to Microsoft and WordPerfect Office, enhanced SVG, AutoCAD, Visio, ...
  
• As for managing knowledge, MUMMY knows best
  These include: - a mobile collaborative Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) tool which enables sharing, annotating and co-working of plan information and context ...
  
• Use the flexibility of XEP to render and publish XML presentations
  It also supports a subset of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 Specification.

links:
svg.pagina.nl is a collection of SVG links, a daughter of the startpagina.nl portal,the most visited dutch website (the svg page is 99% english though). As the freshly new editor I gave it an update. If something's missing, just let me know.

art:
most of you might have seen it by now, though some failed watching because of errors at my hosting company, but this techy tried some art: animated photo mixture I'll move it to svgopen.org soon, so IE-users can also see it.

artikel:
sorry, that's dutch. I wrote a 2-page article on SVG for openmagazine.nl which means a couple of thousand dutch readers.

The call for papers for SVG Open 2005 is out and that message should also soon be modded up enough to appear on this site's front page. Cause SVG is so versatile i'm trying to think out of the box and also aim for the 'non-usual suspects'. Any suggestions, as usual are welcome

idea*: an SVG(open) commercial. One that would look fine on both TVs and computerscreens. One that is fast eye-candy so it grabs your attention for just the few needed seconds. One that shows of what SVG can do and maybe a bit of how too. One that really burns "SVG" in your memory.