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    <p>Hello, UA Colleagues:<br>
      <br>
      I want to be sure this group sees the call for participation for
      the Internationalisation and Unicode Conference, which takes place
      this October 13-15, 2021, in Santa Clara, California, USA. Do you
      want to propose a talk? If so, the deadline is next Friday, March
      19, in the UTC-8 timezone.<br>
      <br>
      Many of you know the Internationalisation and Unicode Conference.
      For those who don't, it is a gathering of those who define The
      Unicode Standard for text, as well as architects of fonts, text
      rendering, and beyond that into software engineering aspects of
      internationalisation and localisation.  About 100% of the audience
      are solidly in favour of the values and goals of Universal
      Acceptance. However, much fewer than 100% know what the Universal
      Acceptance Group does, and what the current successes and
      obstacles are.  I think Universal Acceptance should not be absent
      from this conference.<br>
      <br>
      If anyone has questions about this conference, I have been
      attending for many years, and I would be happy to answer them.
      Others on this list are probably even more expert than I am.<br>
      <br>
      Best regards,<br>
            —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada<br>
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            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:494e0cc2-9872-4701-824a-d8cdb8ebb7e1@dfw1s10mta162.xt.local"><494e0cc2-9872-4701-824a-d8cdb8ebb7e1@dfw1s10mta162.xt.local></a></td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Date: </th>
            <td>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:17:50 -0600</td>
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            <td>45th Internationalization & Unicode Conference –
              Call for Participation</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <td>Mike Narducci <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mike@omg.org"><mike@omg.org></a></td>
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            <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mike@omg.org">mike@omg.org</a></td>
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                <h2 align="center">Call for Participation Is Now Open!</h2>
                 
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                          <p align="left">The IUC 45 Program Committee
                            invites you to submit your session,
                            tutorial, or panel abstracts for the <strong>45th
                              Internationalization & Unicode®
                              Conference (IUC 45)</strong> in Santa
                            Clara, California, October 13-15, 2021.</p>
                          <p align="left">As we continue to navigate our
                            way through COVID-19 protocols, we are
                            starting to finally see some light at the
                            end of the tunnel! With ever-increasing
                            awareness, better understanding, more
                            established community policies, as well as
                            accelerating vaccination efforts, companies
                            are starting to once again plan for 2021
                            face-to-face events. IUC 45 will be no
                            different. We will continue to monitor the
                            severity of the COVID crisis moving forward
                            and shift to alternate planning if
                            necessary. As for now, the goal is to see
                            everyone face to face in Santa Clara, CA!</p>
                          <p align="left">Join other industry leaders as
                            they map the future of internationalization,
                            ignite new ideas, and showcase the latest
                            technologies and best practices for
                            creating, managing, and testing global, web,
                            and multilingual software solutions. Be a
                            leader. Direct the future of multilingual
                            text and software internationalization!
                            Submission types may include case studies,
                            best practices, innovative technology, or
                            presentations about evolving standards, to
                            name a few. In addition, understanding the
                            design of a development platform is often
                            critical to implementing best practices in
                            applications. The Internationalization and
                            Unicode Conference seeks to offer technical
                            tutorials on the internationalization
                            capabilities and architecture of development
                            platforms, including Mobile, Desktop, Cloud,
                            and Virtual Operating Systems, Social
                            Network Platforms, and Machine Translation
                            and
                            Machine Learning Systems.</p>
                          <p align="left">Please submit your proposals
                            for presentations or tutorials by <strong>Friday,
                              March 19, 2021</strong>.</p>
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                            The Program Committee will notify authors by
                            <strong>Friday, April 16, 2021</strong>.
                            Speaker agreements and materials such as
                            photos, bios and final presentation
                            abstracts will be required from selected
                            presenters by <strong>Friday, April 30,
                              2021</strong>.</p>
                          <p align="left"><strong>Tutorial Presenters</strong>
                            receive complimentary conference
                            registration, and two nights lodging, while
                            <strong>Session Presenters</strong> receive
                            a fifty percent conference discount and two
                            nights lodging.</p>
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                <font size="1"><b>About The Unicode Consortium</b><br>
                  The Unicode®Consortium is a non-profit organization
                  founded to develop, extend and promote use of the
                  Unicode Standard and related globalization standards.</font>
                <p><font size="1">The membership of the consortium
                    represents a broad spectrum of corporations and
                    organizations in the computer and information
                    processing industry. Members are: Adobe Systems,
                    Apple, Google, Government of Bangladesh, Government
                    of India, IBM, Microsoft, Monotype Imaging, Oracle,
                    SAP, The Society for Natural Language Technology
                    Research, The University of California (Berkeley),
                    The University of California (Santa Cruz), Yahoo!,
                    plus well over a hundred Associate, Liaison, and
                    Individual members.</font></p>
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