[xsl] Balisage Student Support Awards

[B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BALISAGE 2010 STUDENT SUPPORT AWARDS

Students! An inexpensive way to attend a most excellent technical conference!

Balisage is the premier international conference
on markup languages, technologies, theories, and
practice. It is held annually during late summer
in Montrial, QC. (But don't take our word for it:
try Googling it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=markup%20conference.)

This year, support for attending Balisage 2010
will be available for some full-time students in
the field of markup technologies and related
disciplines including Computer Science, Library
and Information Science, and Digital Humanities.

Thanks to our sponsors, award winners will receive substantial support:

* Reimbursement for travel to and from Montrial
* Accommodations at the Hotel Europa, the conference venue, for the duration
* Full conference registration, including breakfast and lunch

To be eligible, you must be currently enrolled
full time in an academic degree program, as
documented in your CV. And you must have a
demonstrable interest in and commitment to our
field.

In order to qualify, please submit an application that includes the
following:

* Application Letter. Tell us, in a page or two,
why you want to come to Balisage, and how
attending Balisage will help you. Describe your
academic research program, professional interest
in the field, perspective on important issues
(addressed and not adequately addressed by the
community and in the industry), or anything else
you feel will recommend you and your work to the
conference committee and Balisage community at
large.

* Academic CV, listing any of the following:
relevant course work, research projects (with
links where applicable), published papers,
conferences attended, professional employment and
activity, blogging, etc.

* Letter(s) of recommendation (at least one) by
professionals (academic or not) who know your
work and can speak to your engagement with markup
technologies.

* Permission to publicize, at the conference and
in connection with it, your name and
participation, in announcements and related
materials such as the program. Part of the reason
for Balisage is to develop professional contacts
among the attendees. You want to know us, and we
want to know you.

* Optional: a paper submission for the
conference. (See the Call for Participation at
http://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html.)
Papers submitted in connection with an
application for student support will not
guarantee you win support, nor will papers
submitted by applicants necessarily be accepted
for the program. But a paper submission, even if
not accepted for the program, will strengthen
your application.

Application materials will be accepted in plain
text, HTML, or PDF and are due on April 16, 2010
(the same day Balisage paper submissions are
due). Please send applications to
info@xxxxxxxxxxxx, with the subject line "Student
award application". Be sure you include contact
information.

Awards will be offered at the discretion of the conference committee.

Find out more about the Balisage series of
conferences at http://www.balisage.net. Then come
to Montrial to experience the cutting edge of
this fascinating field at the crossroads of
technology, textual studies, database theory, and
philosophy.

"There is nothing so practical as a good theory"


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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010          mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxx
August 3-6, 2010                               http://www.balisage.net
Symposium: XML for the Long Haul August 2, 2010       Montreal, Canada
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