Call closes midnight 25 January 2008 GMT. Notifications due 22 February 2008.
Submit a proposal
Where will the web’s leading technologists be in May 2008? They’re heading to Dublin, Ireland, for XTech 2008, Europe’s essential conference on web technology and development.
If you’re one of these pioneers, implementers and thinkers, XTech wants to hear from you. The call for participation is now open for presentation proposals.
Our theme this year is “The Web on the Move”. We’re not just talking about the iPhone, but about the emerging portability of data, applications and identity on the internet. We want to explore the benefits, issues, practicalities and fun of a web built on open standards, open source and commodity technology.
Given below are suggested topic areas, but don’t feel limited to these these. XTech presentations should inspire, educate and sometimes confront. Your audience will be people like you, responsible for steering the technological direction of their organization and the web as a whole.
XTech will be held from the 6-9th of May 2008, in Dublin, Ireland. The call for participation closes January 26th, 2008, and notifications will be sent by February 23rd.
Further information on proposal submission
A call for tutorial proposals is also open, accepting proposals for half- or full-day tutorial sessions
Suggested topics
Social platforms
Design patterns for social software
Social network interoperability
Internet application platforms (Facebook F8, OpenSocial, etc.)
Identity management
OpenID
Practical security
OAuth
Ajax
jQuery, YUI, other toolkits
Offline applications
Comet
Professional Javascript
Flex
The web of data
Collective intelligence
Semantic technologies
Search
Markup and meaning
Freebase, Twine, Google Base
The place of XML on the web
Data and databases
Client-side databases
REST-oriented databases (e.g. CouchDB)
XML and RDF
Messaging architectures
XQuery
Operations and programming
Web application frameworks
Virtualization and appliances
Application scaling
Multicore and concurrency oriented programming
Mobile devices
Commodity mobiles
Android, iPhone
Hardware hacking and personal prototyping
Geolocation
Getting the mobile mindset