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held from 6-9 May 2008 in Dublin, Ireland.</p> <p>The <a href="/web/20071207172115/http://2008.xtech.org/public/content/2007/12/05-cfp">call for participation</a> is now open for proposals for presentation and tutorial sessions. Submission deadline is 25 January 2008.</p> </div> <br/></div> <div id="en_articles"> <div class="en_article"> <h1><a href="/web/20071207172115/http://2008.xtech.org/public/content/2007/12/05-cfp">Call for Participation for XTech 2008</a></h1> <div class="en_article_body"> <p>Proposals for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071207172115/http://2008.xtech.org/public/cfp/9">presentations</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071207172115/http://2008.xtech.org/public/cfp/10">tutorials</a> are invited for <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071207172115/http://2008.xtech.org/about">XTech 2008</a>, Europe’s premier web technologies conference. The deadline for submitting proposals is <b>January 25th, 2008</b>.</p> <p>XTech 2008 will be held from May 6-9th 2008, in Dublin, Ireland.</p> <p>XTech’s theme this year is “The Web on the Move”, focusing on the emerging portability of data, applications and identity on the internet. We will explore the benefits, issues, practicalities and fun of a web built on open standards, open source and commodity technology.</p> <p>XTech presentations should inspire, educate and challenge. Your audience will be people like you, responsible for steering the technological direction of their organizations and the web as a whole.</p> <p>Last year’s schedule can be viewed <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071207172115/http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule">on the XTech 2007</a> web site.</p> <p>Please direct any questions to the conference chair, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071207172115/mailto:edd-web@usefulinc.com?subject=XTech%202008%20CFP">Edd Dumbill</a>.</p> <p><b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071207172115/http://2008.xtech.org/public/cfp">View the calls for participation and submit a proposal</a></b></p> <p>Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:</p> <ul> <li>Social platforms <ul> <li>Design patterns for social software</li> <li>Social network interoperability</li> <li>Internet application platforms (Facebook F8, OpenSocial, etc.)</li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Identity management <ul> <li>OpenID</li> <li>Practical security</li> <li>OAuth</li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Ajax <ul> <li>jQuery, <span class="caps">YUI</span>, other toolkits</li> <li>Offline applications</li> <li>Comet</li> <li>Professional Javascript</li> <li>Flex</li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul> <li>The web of data <ul> <li>Collective intelligence</li> <li>Semantic technologies</li> <li>Search</li> <li>Markup and meaning</li> <li>Freebase, Twine, Google Base</li> <li>The place of <span class="caps">XML</span> on the web</li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Data and databases <ul> <li>Client-side databases</li> <li><span class="caps">REST</span>-oriented databases (e.g. CouchDB)</li> <li><span class="caps">XML</span> and <span class="caps">RDF</span></li> <li>Messaging architectures</li> <li>XQuery</li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Operations and programming <ul> <li>Web application frameworks</li> <li>Virtualization and appliances</li> <li>Application scaling</li> <li>Multicore and concurrency oriented programming</li> </ul></li> </ul> <ul> <li>Mobile devices <ul> <li>Commodity mobiles</li> <li>Android, iPhone</li> <li>Hardware hacking and personal prototyping</li> <li>Geolocation</li> <li>Getting the mobile mindset</li> </ul></li> </ul> </div> <div class="en_article_metadata"> <a href="/web/20071207172115/http://2008.xtech.org/public/content/2007/12/05-cfp">Link</a> | 2007-12-05 13:35 GMT </div> </div> <hr class="en_divider"/> </div> <div id="en_article_archive"> <p>Archived articles</p> <div id="en_article_archive_links"> <a href="/web/20071207172115/http://2008.xtech.org/public/content/2007/12">2007/12</a> </div> </div> </div> <div id="en_footerwrap"> <div id="en_footer">Copyright © 2001-2008 IDEAlliance Inc. 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