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The SVG Open 2009 organizing committee is looking for contributors presenting a paper or teaching a course. Presenters are asked to submit an extended abstract in English with an approximate length of 400 to 800 words by May 15 to http://www.svgopen.org/. 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. Accepted abstracts, papers and presentations will be published in web proceedings.

Following is a list of potential presentation topics:

    * Mobile (handheld, in-car) Solutions
    * SVG Authoring Tools
    * Publishing and Printing with SVG
    * SVG Text and Internationalization
    * Accessibility Issues with SVG
    * Location-based Services
    * Business Cases and Case Studies
    * Workflow for Creating and Using SVG
    * SVG and Digital Television
    * Graphic Design with SVG
    * SVG for Webmapping and Online GIS/GML
    * SVG for Multimedia Presentations
    * Server-side SVG Generators and Manipulators
    * SVG Authoring Techniques
    * SVG with Other Web Standards (e.g., HTML, XSLT)
    * Interactivity and Scripting
    * GUI Frameworks for Web Applications
    * File Format Conversion
    * SVG Wow!

Though we already have a super facility for most of the conference including of course 'normal' presentations, we are still investigating a venue for holding workshops and courses. At the moment we cannot guarantee that courses can be held. Nevertheless, since courses and workshops had always been popular at past SVG Open conferences we will do our best to find a suitable venue. Potential course instructors are asked to submit a course outline by May 15. The outlines will be reviewed by a committee and instructors will be informed about acceptance on or before June 26. Accepted course instructors will receive a free conference pass and admission to the dinner event. Accepted course outlines will be published as course descriptions in the program. Therefore they should be directed at those who might register for the course rather than the reviewers. Courses are 150 minutes in length, scheduled for the morning and afternoon at the day before or after the main conference. We are interested in proposals for both beginner courses and advanced courses to cater to the diverse interests of all conference attendees. Here is a list of topics of potential interest for courses. Feel free to either volunteer for one of these or propose your own topic.

    * Introduction to SVG
    * SVG Authoring Techniques
    * Creating Mobile SVG content
    * UI Design
    * Using SVG Tools
    * CSS
    * XSLT
    * SMIL Animation
    * ECMAScript and the DOM
    * Graphic Design
    * SVG Filter Effects
    * Rendering Algorithms
    * Generating SVG from Database Content

More information via http://svgopen.org

See you in Mountain View,

Regards,

Ruud Steltenpool

Mappetizer is a tool that gives you the opportunity to convert spatial data into the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format. You can then use these SVG files to publish them on the Web or on CD-ROM.

To create your maps you do not need any GIS software. You can then use these SVG files to publish them on the Web or on CD-ROM.

Mappetizer offers many features to create interactive maps of high quality, like identifying features, viewing the attribute table, map-tips, hyperlinks, turn on and off layers, measurement tools, and many others.

Additional information about Mappetizer and the possibility to download an evaluation version are available under http://www.mappetizer.de

Amaya is distributed under the W3C software license and translated in about fifteen languages. You can download the binary release or build Amaya from the sources.

GEMï is a cross-browser application manager with multiple windows system and gui. It can also be described as a WOS. Besides the usual features like scroll bars, resize, move, collapse and restore, the windows have individual multiple zoom functions and hand tool. Menus allow basic file management, printing, file info, etc. Other features are: dialogs; windows tabs; thumbnails; colorpicker (new version 1.1); preferences; online help. Preferences can be saved (remote).

Some of the new and visible features in GEMï 1.5

• Multi function Lens Tool
• Hand Tool
• Linear/step zoom type selection in preferences (saved)
• Custom cursors (Safari and Google Chrome only)
• Windows arrangement in "Window" menu
• Minimize All and Restore All in "Window" menu
• Help extended

KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 6.0, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native file format.

4D just announced the release of its latest database software platform, 4D v11 SQL Release 3 (11.3). 4D v11 SQL not only supports SVG as a native language format but also provides all the tools for business application developers to create dynamic data driven visual interfaces using the power of SVG. 4D v11 SQL provides developers with over 100 high level commands to create rich, dynamic SVG driven user interfaces. See more at http://www.4d.com/products/4dsvg.html.

A Live demo of the new Vector Graphics Editor from inEvo using just Flash is online.
It has gesture recognition and uses SVG natively. This new editor has many new innovating ideas for a more natural and easy sketch and drawing.
It's really fast as you can check out. SVG developers and designers can use it to do quick SVG scenes and drawings.

Soon, a new AIR application (for your desktop) will be released with this technology

http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item175 says:

Participants from four W3C Groups -- CSS, Internationalization Core, SVG and XSL Working Groups -- as part of the Japanese Layout Task Force published an update of Requirements of Japanese Text Layout. This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051. However, it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS X 4051. This draft contains most of the material which the task force intends to publish as a Group Note in December 2008. A Japanese version is also available. Learn more about W3C's Internationalization Activity.

uismedia is pleased to announce Mappetizer 1.0. Mappetizer is a tool that gives you the opportunity to convert spatial data into the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format. You can then use these SVG files to publish them on the Web or on CD-ROM.

To create your maps you do not need any GIS software.
To display your maps you do not need any additional software on your web server.

Additional information about Mappetizer and the possibility to download an evaluation version are available under http://www.mappetizer.de

In response to changes made during Candidate Recommendation phase from implementor feedback, and to previous Last Call comments, the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group has published a new Last Call Working Draft of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification. The SVG language defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny, Version 1.2, a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. Its goal is to provide the ability to create a whole range of graphical content, from static images to animations to interactive Web applications. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a profile of SVG intended for implementation on a range of devices, from cellphones and PDAs to desktop and laptop computers.

This has been a long-awaited release, and it is expected that the specification will be a an official W3C Recommendation before the end of the year. It also signals the beginning of important new work on SVG that has been put on hold until this point.