[sword-devel] upcoming conference

Troy A. Griffitts sword-devel@crosswire.org
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:30:32 -0700


Harry,
	Thank you for the consideration.  Actually, Mike Perez from ABS already
gave us a call.  I'm planning on attending.  I'm sure others on the list
might be interested also.  Looking forward to hearing you.


> By the way, there's an upcoming conference on
> April 30 to May 2 on developing open XML standards
> for bible and theological documents. I'll be speaking
> there about Theological Markup Language.

> This conference is sponsored by the American Bible
> Society, and they're trying to get an industry-wide
> support for an open standard, perhaps ending in a
> W3C standard or something like that.
> 
> The conference is by invitation only, but the organizers
> asked me for some recommendations. It would seem good
> to have representation from the open-source community.
> Is there anyone who would really like to go?  It's
> in the Washington, DC area and unfortunately you'd
> have to pay your own transportation, hotel room, and
> registration.
> 
> Otherwise, I can report on what was said and done there.
> 
> -Harry