Companies are contributing to the upcoming RealWorld DITA 2009 Conference.  Adobe Systems and XyEnterprise have stepped up as sponsors.  Additional companies are "vending" at the event.

Adobe is also sponsoring the Summer XML 2009 conference!  Here is a link to a recent post by Mahesh from Adobe on their blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/. This post is about the XML conference -- happening tomorrow in Raleigh NC -- and it mentions DITA too.

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The Summer XML Conference presentations were carefully selected to be highly technical, marketing fluff free, and presented by real users and technology experts.  Presentations are set up in 3 tracks, with keynotes each day.  Here is what you can expect. 

• Keynote: Survivor: XML (Leigh W. White, Allscripts)
• Introduction to XSLT Concepts (Debbie Lapeyre, Mulberry Technologies)
• Introduction to DITA (Kristen James Eberlein, IBM)
• Ex-XHTML HTML (Doug Schepers, W3C)

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The XML conference I'm producing covers many aspects of XML.  The audience is always varied, with engineers, gurus, newbies, managers, tech comm folks, IT folks, and others coming to learn and network.

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This article was written for those new to XML, and may be helpful to those new to XML and DITA... give you a foundation on which to build.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-newxml/

Today I got the word that an article I wrote is available on IBM's DeveloperWorks. 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-publish/