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Top issues in Universal Acceptance of non-Latin email addresses and domain names (IUC45 session)
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 31 Oct 2021 | Tagged as: meetings and conferences, Unicode, Universal Acceptance
Two weeks ago was the Internationalization and Unicode Conference. This year is the 45th conference, or IUC45. I delivered a presentation: Top issues in Universal Acceptance of non-Latin email addresses and domain names. Here are my slides.
Continue Reading »IUC45 talk: “Top issues in Universal Acceptance”
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 30 Jun 2021 | Tagged as: meetings and conferences, Unicode, Universal Acceptance
I’m delighted to be presenting, once again, to the 45th Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC45). The conference is the gathering of my “tribeâ€, people who are as enthusiastic about language, text, and software as I am. If you like this stuff, it’s the best place in the world to be for those three days. Or, given the pandemic, the conference might be partially or completely virtual, so that webcast is the best UDP session in the world. In either case, please register and join us there.
Continue Reading »Earth, Moon, and abolishing leap seconds: the curious astronomy and politics of time() (IUC44 session)
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 30 Nov 2020 | Tagged as: culture, meetings and conferences, time, Unicode
Last month was the pandemic-distanced rendition of the Internationalization and Unicode Conference. This year is the 44th conference, or IUC44. In addition to a tutorial (blogged about last month), I delivered a presentation: Earth, Moon, and abolishing leap seconds: the curious astronomy and politics of time(). Here are my slides, and a video of me talking through my slides.
Continue Reading »Email addresses and domain names are NON-latin! Now what? (IUC44 tutorial)
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 31 Oct 2020 | Tagged as: meetings and conferences, Unicode, Universal Acceptance
Two weeks ago was the pandemic-distanced rendition of the Internationalization and Unicode Conference. This year is the 44th conference, or IUC44. In addition to a presentation (to be blogged later), I delivered a tutorial: Email addresses and domain names are NON-latin! Now what? Here are my slides, and a video of me talking through my slides.
Continue Reading »Email addresses and domain names are NON-latin! Now what? (IUC41 tutorial)
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 28 Feb 2018 | Tagged as: i18n, meetings and conferences, multilingual, Unicode, web technology
Last fall I attended the Internationalization and Unicode Conference. That year was the 41st conference, or IUC41. In addition to a presentation (described in a blog last October), I delivered a tutorial: Email addresses and domain names are NON-latin! Now what? I should have blogged about my slides last October, but better late than never. Here are my slides. Continue Reading »
Welcome to the Vancouver technology entrepreneurship scene
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 30 Nov 2017 | Tagged as: British Columbia, meetings and conferences, Vancouver
Welcome to Vancouver, B.C. You want to get involved in the entrepreneurial technology startup “scene” here? That is wonderful. Here is my current list of activities and organisations that form good entry points into the entrepreneurship community in Vancouver. Check them out. Participate in what interests you. Ask at these events for further suggestions. Enjoy!
Note that I am not an authority on the totality of entrepreneurship in this area. I am just an ordinary participant. This is my worm’s-eye view. It’s probably incomplete. Perhaps others will post in the comments the wonderful events and orgs that I missed. But this at least will get you started. Continue Reading »
Universal Acceptance of non-Latin email addresses and domain names: how does your framework rate? (IUC41 presentation)
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 31 Oct 2017 | Tagged as: i18n, meetings and conferences, multilingual, Unicode, web technology
One of my treats each year is to attend the Internationalization and Unicode Conference. This year was the 41st conference, or IUC41. As I often do, I made a presentation. This year, the title was, Universal Acceptance of non-Latin email addresses and domain names: how does your framework rate? I’d like to share my slides. Continue Reading »
Open Data Day 2017, Team Meta, and a Prize!
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 31 Mar 2017 | Tagged as: government, meetings and conferences, Vancouver, web technology
Open Data Day was celebrated here on Sunday, 4. March 2017. The Open Data Society of B.C. sponsored a buzzing, successful hackathon, with participants from several communities in the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island, and even Washington State.
I plunged back into my continuing project for Vancouver Open Data Day, to make a language census of Vancouver’s Open Data Catalogue. You can check out our Team Meta #VODay hackathon report as submitted via github. I’ve summarised it below. I was very pleased to be awarded the City of Vancouver Focus Challenge Prize for the work we accomplished that day. Continue Reading »
Town Hall on Electoral Reform, Dr Hedy Fry MP in Vancouver Centre, 15 Aug 2016
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 31 Aug 2016 | Tagged as: Canada, government, meetings and conferences, politics, Vancouver
I favour electoral reform. I am a newly-minted Canadian, who deeply hopes my first vote for Parliament will not be conducted under the current, archaic, unfair First-Past-the-Post system. So, when my MP convened a Town Hall meeting on electoral reform, I made a point of attending. Here are some notes on the event. I hope they are helpful documentation for other democratic reform advocates.
Requirements for comparing digital scores
Posted by Jim DeLaHunt on 30 Jun 2016 | Tagged as: culture, Keyboard Philharmonic, meetings and conferences, music
Back in May, as part of the Music Encoding 2016 conference in Montreal, we had a discussion about comparing digital scores. Just as you can compare text files, and get a concise statement of differences, we brainstormed about requirements for comparing music scores at the notation level. This blog post is a record of that discussion.