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SVG Open 2009

I’ve been asked to keynote SVG Open 2009.

It always feels a bit weird when I am ask to talk to people who know much more than I do on a particular subject about that very subject.  There will be plenty of people in the audience who will know more than I do on the spec, the capabilities, and the future directions for SVG.  My thoughts, therefore, are to focus my keynote on the social aspects... in particular, what we can expect from the View Source Lesson as applied to SVG as it becomes a integral part of HTML5.

Basically, I want to see a world where more of this happens every day.


or this

Posted by Robert Sayre at

Some of my favorite conference keynotes have been from people who weren’t in the immediate community around which a conference is based.  Or, even better, not from the tech community at all.  A keynote should inspire people to think about things they don’t already know.  Thanks for agreeing to do the keynote!

Posted by Doug Schepers at

@robert I think the “this” of Sam is not about the SVG capabilities, but the fact that he had a WhatWG logo in SVG, and somewhat just took it, and made his own version aka “HTML View Source” social aspects.

The source and the print are mixed. (not like a layered photoshop/illustrator source file which is “printed” in png or jpeg before being displayed).

That said the Rouget’s demo is Uber cool too!

Posted by karl dubost at

This is how we learn best.... Find something, take it apart, [break it,] make it better.

I am worried by people who need to be ‘taught’ something, although realise that this is how other people learn.

Posted by Bob Mitchell at

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