Fwd: Join the W3C Workshop on Data and Services Integration (Call for Participation)

This is relevant to our work.  Some of you should submit papers.
Asahok

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Subject: 	Join the W3C Workshop on Data and Services Integration (Call for Participation)
Resent-Date: 	Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:09:00 +0000
Resent-From: 	w3c-ac-members@w3.org
Date: 	Fri, 5 Aug 2011 18:08:56 -0500
From: 	Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
To: 	W3C Members <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>



Dear Advisory Committee Representative,

W3C is pleased to announce an upcoming Workshop:

     W3C Workshop on Data and Services Integration
     20-21 October 2011
     Bedford, MA, USA
     Hosted by Mitre
     http://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop/

Integration of heterogeneous data and services has always been a concern for creators and managers of services. With the emergence of the Web, the need for reusing data and services has become even stronger as the number of available services has grown. Different services stacks now exist from Web Services to Cloud-based services.

The goal of this Workshop is to bring together people with different ways of looking at the issues left unsolved by the existing stacks, to investigate the possible paths to help bridging services built using different paradigms, and to identify points where standardization would help integration of services and data.

See below for important dates and requirements for participation; more information is available on the Workshop home page. If you have any questions, please contact Yves Lafon<ylafon@w3.org>.

More background information for this Workshop is available:
   http://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop/#cfp_background

This announcement follows section 9 of the Process Document:
    http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/events#GAEvents

Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications;

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Important dates in 2011

September  9: Position Papers are due.
September 23: Acceptance notification and registration instructions are sent.
October   14: Deadline for registration and hotel discount rate.

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Requirements for Participation
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Participation will be governed by the following:

- To ensure maximum interaction among participants, the number of
    participants will be limited to two from one company.

- W3C membership is not required to participate in this workshop.

- Attendees are required to submit a Position Paper (Presenters) or a
    Statement of Interest (Non-presenters) by email to
    <team-integration-ws-submit@w3.org>  by 9 September 2011.

For details on Position Paper and Statement of Interest, please see
the Workshop home page at:
    http://www.w3.org/2011/10/integration-workshop/


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Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org)    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
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