[UA-discuss] UA at IUC? [or: Call for Participation Announced! - 41st Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Santa Clara, CA - October 16-18, 2017]
Asmus Freytag
asmusf at ix.netcom.com
Sun Mar 12 05:53:43 UTC 2017
Excellent idea -- audience tends to be heavy on internationalization and
character encoding specialists, but might just have the kind of people
that can get their companies to make UA fixes.
A./
PS: Haven't gone to one in a while, so I'm not sure whether it's changed
much.
On 3/11/2017 4:21 PM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:
>
> Hello, colleagues:
>
> I'm a big fan of, and regular participant in, the annual
> Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC), brought to us by
> the people who brought us Unicode. I imagine that people who are
> interested in Universal Acceptance are likely to be interested in this
> conference, and may well have important contributions they could make
> to it.
>
> So, #1, I'd like to make everyone in UASG aware that the IUC has a
> call for participation. The deadline for proposals is Friday, 24.
> March, 2017. Please consider proposing a talk if you have something
> that the IUC audience would benefit from.
>
> And, #2, I don't recall there being a proper presentation of the UASG
> activity at the IUC conference. (Dave Crocker gave a 5-minute
> "lightning talk" about Universal Acceptance and the UASG, but that was
> barely enough time to say that it existed.)
>
> I would like to see a proposal about the Universal Acceptance
> Initiative submitted to the conference this year. If someone is
> already working on this, I would like to talk to you off-list and see
> if it makes sense to work together. If there is no existing effort, I
> would like to start one. I welcome collaboration. I will see to it
> that a proposal gets submitted.
>
> Best regards,
> --Jim DeLaHunt
>
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> Subject: Call for Participation Announced! - 41st
> Internationalization & Unicode Conference, Santa Clara, CA - October
> 16-18, 2017
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:34:19 -0500
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>
> IUC 41 Conference
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> Internationalization & Unicode Conference 40. October 16-18, 2017 -
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> *Call for Participation Announced!*
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