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We would like to announce a pre-conference day for the XML Prague conference, to be held on Friday 25th March 2011.

The pre-conference day will cover themes linked to XML Databases and XQuery, with a relaxed and flexible un-conference like approach at times. The day will consist of not only talks by subject experts, but also presentations and discussion topics from attendees.

The morning will focus exclusively on the eXist-db Open Source Native XML Database, with talks and demos from the developers of eXist-db on the latest features, performance tuning and best practice, followed by eXist-db user community presentations (see note 1).

The afternoon will cover -

• EXPath (latest developments, extensions, packaging, governance and the current state of implementations), by Florent Georges.
• XQuery Performance & Extensibility (open discussion forum), by Mohamed Zergaoui.
• XQuery 3.0 Rocks! , by William Candillon.
• Demos and Discussion (see note 1) - an un-conference, where anyone may take the floor to present, demo or discuss a topic or project.

Registration and full pre-conference details are available on our website.

Please note, that the venue is NOT the Charles University. The venue details may be found on the website above.

There will be no charge for the day, as it is kindly sponsored by eXist Solutions

(note 1) If you would like to give a presentation, demo or host a discussion either in the morning (eXist-db related), or require a period longer than 10 minutes in the afternoon 'Demos and Discussion' slot, then please let us know in advance. Likewise, if you have suggestions for talks or points of discussion, contact: info@exist-db.org.

During the last year some tips and tricks have been written. Since these were not really visible on the main page, they can be found on here

On March 25th 2011, the day before the 2011 edition of the XMLPrague conference, we'll organize again an eXist-db pre-conference day/user meetup. This year we'll combine the day together with the very interesting EXPath initiative.

The program is not ready yet but it is already possible to register on the brand new website http://xmlprague2011.preconference.info/

We are looking forward meeting you (again!)

The slides from the eXist users meeting during XML Prague are finally available. Thanks to all who helped to organize this meeting. It was a great experience and very inspiring.

As nearly every year, parts of the eXist team are planning to attend (XML Prague). This is certainly our favorite conference and we have used the event during the past years to meet, discuss, plan and spend some time together. It's a rather small (and affordable) conference, but you'll see all the important XML geeks hanging around there ;-) XML Prague will be even earlier this year (March 13/14).

We currently plan to organize an "eXist users group" meeting on the Friday before the main conference starts. The program will depend on the audience, so we'll need your feedback. It may just be a more or less informal meeting or we could extend it into a workshop and provide some hands-on experience.

If you plan to be at XML Prague and you are interested, please send me (wolfgang AT exist-db DOT org) an email with some details. In particular, we need to know:

• if and at what time we could meet at the Friday (whole day, afternoon, late afternoon)
• what your interests are: exchange ideas with other users or get some information/training on a particular topic
• if you would like to present something to the users group, e.g. an application which is based on eXist or a development project you are working on