Because of a serious personal health emergency, the organizer of this year's conference, dated for October 16-19 in Victoria, BC, Canada, has regretfully had to cancel the conference. Unfortunately, at the time the committee was informed by the cancellation it was already too late to come up with an alternative organizer for the envisaged date. Our deepest regrets for those who were looking forward to this year's conference. We hope that people have not already booked flights and hotels.

Thanks also to those 45 people sending in papers. 45 papers is a nice result considering the fact that organization went slowly and information came sparely. Also, there wasn't much advertising made.

Plans for an SVG.Open 2007 are currently underway, with a different chair, organization committee and venue. We will inform you as soon as more information becomes available.

We also invite people who submitted papers for the SVG.Open 2006 conference, to re-submit them for the SVG.Open 2007 conference.