The W3C has posted the call for papers for WWW2005, to be held in Chiba, Japan, May 10-14, 2005. Papers are due by November 8 and "will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers from an International Program Committee. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and will also be accessible to the general public via http://www2005.org/." Tutorial proposals are due by October 15, and tutorials may be given in either English or Japanese. The latter's a nice touch. I'm always amazed by conferences in non-English speaking countries where even the locals deliver in English.
Chiba's a great choice for a conference like this, but I'm afraid I'll have to pass on this one. It's too far, too expensive, and too unpaid for me to justify the trip. My bank account is already showing the effect of attending too many academic conferences this year, and I've had to decline several interesting shows already because they expect the speakers to subsidize them rather than the other way around. That said, if anyone has a budget to pay speakers and is interested in hearing me present on XOM, Effective XML, XQuery, or many other XML related subjects, to either a conference or your company, please do drop me a line. I'm generally willing to talk to local user groups for free, and I do quite a bit of that here in New York—I'll be talking to the XML User's Group in Albany in October; topic and location will be announced soon—but anything that requires long distance travel needs to be compensated to justify the time away from other projects.
Stve Ball has released tkxmllint 1.6 and tkxsltproc 1.6, GUI front-ends for libxml2's xmllint and libxslt's. They're available for Windows and Mac OS X. Version 1.6