XForms Everywhere

In just a few days I will be going to Amsterdam for the XTech 2005 conference. The topic: “XML, the Web and Beyond”. It looks that this should be fun and interesting, and it’s going to be difficult to choose between tracks at times!

I have a particular interest in this conference since Orbeon has been developing XML technology for years now, including the XML Pipeline Language (XPL) and an XForms implementation, both supported in Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS), our open source XML platform.

As a reminder Orbeon will not only be attending the conference: I will be doing two talks on Wednesday, May 25: one about server-side XForms technology (Are Server-Side Implementations the Future of XForms?), and a product presentation of OPS. They will both be fairly technical, but I hope to sweeten things up with some good demos!

I look forward to meeting you at XTech!

We will be speaking at the XTech conference in Amsterdam on May 26. Don’t miss us there!

The subject of our main talk is Are Server-Side Implementations the Future of XForms?. It will discuss server-side approaches for XForms. We will also do a product presentation about Orbeon PresentationServer (OPS) the same day. We hope to be able to demo some features of the next version of the OPS XForms engine.

The complete schedule of the conference is available.

Matthew Langham posted the slides of his upcoming presentation at Holland Open on open source business models.

He talks about his experience during the last 5 years, mentioning what doesn’t work (brochures, cold calls) and most importantly what works: making sure the community uses your stuff, speaking at conferences, having a blog, providing the services that the community is asking for (training and support), and most importantly… being patient.