Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG) is starting to pop up over all the place. It's showing up natively in
browsers (including Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and more). It's natively supported on the
iPhone, and work is happening in various open source communities to create options for
Internet Explorer. Google uses it under the covers in Google Maps (to create vector line
drawings showing where to go); Google Docs (for drawing into presentations); and more.
Wikipedia has a huge repository of SVG images, while many tools such as Inkscape, Illustrator,
and Visio can either export to SVG or work with it natively. Vector graphics support through
SVG and Canvas is consistently one of the
top voted requests by developers.
Since we use and support SVG
we thought it would be great to work with the community to host the SVG Open 2009
conference this fall. SVG Open will be in Mountain View at the Google campus
from October 2-4, 2009. The theme this year is "SVG coming of age".
We are looking for contributors to present papers or teach courses.
Presenters are asked to submit an extended abstract in English with
an approximate length of 400 to 800 words by May 15. The abstracts are reviewed by a reviewing
committee and presenters will be informed about acceptance on or before June 26. If your
abstract is accepted, you will be asked to submit your full paper by August 31, according to
instructions that will be sent to you.
