Announcement: Internationalization Symposium

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Tomas Carrasco Benitez, in cooperation	 |
with W3C and Sadiel, is organizing a	 |    Web Internationalization
Symposium on I18N and Multilinguism.	 |        & Multilinguism
					 |           Symposium
W3C members and other interested	 |  ___________________________
parties are invited to attend.		 |
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From the Introduction:			 |   http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/
					 |    International/Sevilla-96
The Web Internationalization &		 |
Multilinguism Symposium (WInter		 |
Symposium) will take place in Sevilla	 |
(Spain) between the 20 and the 22	 |      20-22 November 1996
November 1996.				 |         Sevilla, Spain
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The objective of the Symposium is the	 |
advancement of the			 |    For registration details,
Internationalization & Multilinguism	 |    travelling & accomodation,
of the Web. The more concrete goal is    |        see the above URL.
to seek agreement on the relevant	 |
standards. The rationale is to gather	 |  $450 : Until 31 October 1996
all the interested parties, in		 |  $500 : After 31 October 1996
particular:				 |

o  Users, particularly large users with advanced multilingual needs.
o  Vendors of Web products (e.g., browsers, servers, ...).
o  Vendors of linguistic products (e.g., translator workbenches).
o  Standards promoters (e.g, W3C).
o  Social and political stakeholders (e.g., European Commission)

Rapporteurs will present for each theme of the program the different
options, implications, level of consensus, etc. Rapporteurs do not
represent their position, they gather all the positions, including
theirs. Participants new to the Internationalization & Multilinguism
on Web would have the opportunity to get up to speed in a short
time.

For the W3C members, the Symposium has the status of a W3C workshop.



Bert
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  Bert Bos                                ( W 3 C ) http://www.w3.org/
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  +33 93 65 77 71                 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

Received on Friday, 30 August 1996 08:35:22 UTC