TOWN HALL MEETINGS

XTech 2000 will be hosting all new evening events, called "Town Hall Meetings." Held on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, after dinner, attendees are welcome to join key members of the XML Schemas and XML Query working groups - for two open-mike town-hall forums. This will be great way to ask questions, listen to suggestions, soak up praise, endure abuse, hold straw polls, or whatever else the meeting brings up.

Schema Town Hall Meeting:
Tuesday, February 29
8:00 pm -9:00 pm

The following speakers from the W3C's XML Schema Working Group will take the stage for the XML Schema Town Hall:

Michael Sperberg-McQueen, W3C (WG co-chair)
Dave Hollander, CommerceNet (WG co-chair)
Paul Biron, Kaiser-Permanente/HL7 (editor of Datatypes)
Henry Thompson, Univ. of Edinburgh (editor of Structures)
David Fallside, IBM (introduction editor)

Query Town Hall Meeting:
Wednesday, March 1
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The following speakers from the W3C's XML Query Working Group have agreed to take the stage for the XML Query Town Hall:

Paul Cotton IBM (WG chair)
Jonathan Robie Software AG (Requirements co-editor)