[Unicode Announcement] Call for Participation: IUC 34, Oct 18-20, 2010

Mountain View, CA, USA – April 26, 2010 – The Unicode® Consortium today

announced a call for participation in The Thirty-fourth

Internationalization & Unicode® Conference (IUC 34), taking place in

Santa Clara, Calif., USA; October 18-20, 2010. The conference is

produced by OMG™.

The Internationalization & Unicode Conference is the premier annual

technical conference for topics on the design and global deployment of

multilingual applications and web sites. Internationalization and

Unicode experts, implementers, clients, teachers, students, and vendors

are invited to attend this unique conference. The interactive format

makes the Internationalization & Unicode Conference a great place to

meet and exchange ideas with leading experts, find out about the needs

of potential clients, and get information about Unicode-enabled products.

To be considered as a presenter for the conference, please submit a

brief abstract before Wednesday, May 26. Topics should be related to

internationalization and localization; presentations structured as

tutorials are also welcome. Suitable topics include, but are not limited

to:

Best Practices and New Approaches

• New technologies, algorithms and methodologies

• Using internationalization libraries and programming environments

• Handling bidirectional or other complex scripts

• Data formats and evolving standards, e.g. XML, JSON, HTML5, DITA,

• Project management for global development teams

• Localization technologies, Crowd Sourcing, Machine Translation, et al

• Development, test, and deployment techniques and experiences

• Improving globalization capabilities within organizations

• Migrating legacy applications to global markets

• Unicode, Emoji, and character encodings

Application Areas

• Social networks

• Search engines, SEO, discovery and navigation best practices

• Websites, Cloud Computing, SAAS, and Web services

• Libraries and education

• Mobile applications, including iPhone, Android, iPad, Kindle, etc.

• Publishing and broadcasting for a global audience

• Internationalized Domain Names and other identifiers

• Security concerns and practices

Language and Locale Support

• African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and support for other languages

• Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR)

• Font development

Details of the call for participation are available at:

http://www.unicode.org/contacts.html. For more information, please

contact the Unicode Consortium http://www.unicode.org/consortium/distlist.html#announcements