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IDEAlliance Launches a New Conference; Open PublishAt a time when many conference organizations are canceling and downsizing, IDEAlliance is planning to take advantage of its committed conference facilities to launch a new conference specifically targeted at today's publishers. IDEAlliance will launch this new event, Open Publish 2002, in Seattle on the same week as the Knowledge Technologies 2002 Conference. Other than sharing a location, each conference will be an independent offering. The theme for the first Open Publish 2002 Conference to be held in the United States is "Standards and Processes in Publishing." The need for standards and processes in the publishing industry is now greater than ever as the various media continue to converge and evolve. Open Publish was developed to address all of the stages of the publishing and digital print process: from design to print to plate to Web to e-book to wireless. The inaugural Open Publish event was held this past August in Sydney, Australia. Due to the overwhelming success of the event, IDEAlliance and Allette Systems are taking the conference global. A great deal of enthusiasm was voiced by those from those passing through the IDEAlliance booth at the Seybold Exposition in San Francisco in September, so IDEAlliance believes this new conference offering is sure to be a winner. Open Publish 2002 will offer a combination of:
This year's conference aims to bring together the world's most respected authorities on PDF and file formats, publication workflow, publishing markup languages, on-demand printing, color management, graphic design, digital rights management, asset management, content syndication, new delivery media, and best practices in publishing. We are now beginning to search for experts willing to talk about the issues facing all who publish information in any form including: digital, electronic, and/or traditional media. Look for the call for papers at www.open-publish.com |
