If you would like to organize and lead a panel discussion, then please submit an abstract containing the agenda, and listing your panelists as co-authors, by February 1, 2005. See below for instructions on submission. The abstracts are reviewed by a reviewing commitee and presenters informed about acceptance on or before April 1, 2005.

If your abstract is accepted, then you will be asked to submit your full paper and your presentation slides according to instructions that will be sent to you. Accepted abstracts, papers and presentations that are submitted in time, will be published on the conference CD and Web proceedings.

Panel Discussion Format

Panel Discussions are given 45-minute time slots, with approximately 10 minutes spent on introducing the panelists and agenda, 30 minutes of questions and discussion, and 5 minutes for people to change rooms. Panelists should be experts in a common area of specialization of interest to conference attendees.

Panel Discussion Topics & Tracks

We would like to organise the panel discussions into the same tracks as the paper presentations. The following is the list of tracks we are now considering. This is to start you thinking - it is still open for change and you are welcome to come up with suggestions:

• Application building track:
     application design, scripting, deployment, optimization, ...
• Art & Design track:
     screen art, interface design, logos & icons, cartoons, ...
• Business track:
     how to make money off SVG, selling SVG-based products, ...
• Data-connections track:
     combining SVG with MathML, CML, sXBL, and anyXML , ...
• Evangelism & Specs track:
     pushing forward the SVG language and its use...
• Geo-information track:
     mapping, geodata, SVG and (open)GIS webservices
• Mobile use track:
     small-device challenges, SVG & LBS, ...
• Tools track:
     authoring tools, viewers, convertors, widgets, ...
  

Submission Guidelines

When submitting an abstract, please:

• Choose a file name that is your panel discussion title or an abbreviation thereof, written in camel case, and followed by ".html". For example, if your title is "How to make SVG rule the world?" then your abstract file name could be "HowMakeSVGRuleWorld.html". In the unlikely event that two or more submitted file names are identical, our online system will make them unique by appending digits.
• Include the title of your proposed panel within <h1>...</h1>.
• Include the XHTML 1.1 DOCTYPE declaration.
• Validate your file, and if necessary use HTML Tidy to fix any errors.

Submission of an abstract is done on-line.