Re: [xsl] Balisage and XML Prague conferences

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

For some reason, Liam's message never reached my inbox, nor my spambox, 
and yours got a bit lost, oops...

Tx for your answer, Michael. This is a clear and concise description of 
the differences, which appear bigger than I originally thought. I 
received some other posts off-list, for which I'd like to thank the posters.

See you all this weekend in Prague!

Kind regards,
Abel Braaksma


On 10-3-2011 0:35, Michael Kay wrote:
> On 09/03/2011 17:03, Abel Braaksma wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd be interested to know what the coverage of the XSLT community
> > will be in either of these conferences and the interest from an
> > XSLT/XPath point of view. I will attend XML Prague and I'm
> > contemplating on attending the Balisage as well, but am uncertain of
> > the surplus value of visiting them both. Are they complementary, or
> > is there a large overlap, generally speaking? In a way, it seems that
> > the Balisage is the "larger brother" of XML Prague.
> >
> > My intention and expectations are to both meet people I've seen only
> > through mailing lists, and learn from the speakers (of course).
>
> Both very good conferences with a different feel to them.
>
> XML Prague, as Liam says, mostly about technologies that you can use
> today if you're prepared to be at the leading edge (and perhaps to
> step outside the path of what's fashionable). A weekend conference,
> single-stream - which has the effect that speakers have to ensure the
> talks are interesting to everyone, and also has the effect that
> everyone has listened to the same talks which means that there's a
> tendency for speakers to debate and dispute with each other - it feels
> like a community discussion rather than a series of separate lectures.
> The twitter wall was a great success last year, meaning that attendees
> were discussing the talks among themselves as they proceeded.
>
> Balisage: more of the SGML culture here. Plenty of humanities people
> doing serious work on textual analysis, people interested in semantics
> and meaning, perhaps more focus on advanced ways of using markup than
> on the tools themselves; also a more "researchy" feel to it, with
> Balisage perhaps more focused on the research qualities of submissions
> and Prague more on their tutorial quality.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica