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<p>Universal Acceptance colleagues:<br>
[and two Unicode Consortium staff via bcc:]</p>
<p>I came into the Universal Acceptance Steering Group thanks to a
brief presentation on UA which someone made to the annual
Internationalisation and Unicode Conference (IUC,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.unicodeconference.org/">https://www.unicodeconference.org/</a>) some years ago. For the last
few years, I have presented on Universal Acceptance topics to the
IUC. I believe there are common interests between the IUC's people
and topics, and the UASG's people and topics. So far the actual
overlap is rather narrow, as measured by people active in both
communities, but I see potential.<br>
</p>
<p>The Unicode Consortium staff are taking an opportunity to rethink
the future direction of the Internationalization and Unicode
Conference. They invited people on a Unicode mailing list to fill
out surveys about it. They are kindly allowing me to forward this
invitation to the UA-discuss list. If any of you are interested in
the future direction of the IUC, please feel free to follow the
link and fill out the survey. It is a chance for the Unicode folks
to gather some data on how broad the overlap with Universal
Acceptance actually is.<br>
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<p>N.B. there are actually two surveys, for two audiences. For most
UA people, I think the "<a
href="https://forms.gle/xTbAppFG4jQqxzpm6" class="">Survey for
those who have yet to attend</a>" is more appropriate.</p>
On 2022-03-03 09:38, Member-Services (Acct) wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:4AFC3886-B04B-4E01-9708-81B2650FBFAF@unicode.org">
<div class="">…Unicode staff and a small group of volunteers
convened late last year and will continue meeting in the coming
60-90 days to create the future IUC.</div>
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<div class=""><br class="">
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<div class=""><b class="">REQUEST</b></div>
<div class="">The Unicode Consortium is always looking to
improve its conference. We recognize IUC as a key opportunity
each year for knowledge-sharing, community building, and
evangelization and want your help to shape the future IUC.
Please give us your input and ideas by EOD on [Wednesday,
March 16th] in one of these brief questionnaires.</div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class="">(1) <a href="https://forms.gle/DWgrz8C7edrENKDe6"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">Survey for previous
attendees</a></div>
<div class="">(2) <a href="https://forms.gle/xTbAppFG4jQqxzpm6"
class="" moz-do-not-send="true">Survey for those who have
yet to attend</a></div>
<div class=""><br class="">
</div>
<div class=""><b class="">NEXT STEPS</b></div>
<div class="">Once we have additional community input and an
update on our specific plan, we will share that information
with the [Unicode] community via this [Unicode] list, our
blog, and other channels. In the meantime, thanks for your
time and ideas!</div>
<div class=""><br>
Best regards,<br>
Toral<br>
<br>
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Toral Cowieson<br>
Executive Director & COO<br>
Unicode, Inc.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.unicode.org">www.unicode.org</a><br>
Learn more about our Adopt-a-Character program!<br class="">
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p>In the meantime, if anyone would like more information about the
IUC and the fascinating community which attends it, I am happy to
answer questions. <br>
</p>
<p>Best regards,<br>
—Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada<br>
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