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Dear All,

Belated season's greetings to you...

1. Digital Hollywood Europe report
2. TV Over Net - Daniel talks - free and 25% discount for conference
3. Upgrade Kendra website to Drupal CMS
4. IPTV World Forum - 15% discount for conference
5. Video Forum features IWA awards

1. DIGITAL HOLLYWOOD EUROPE REPORT

DHE was great fun. We had ten participants on the Kendra stand. We made 
loads of new contacts. We should do it more and more. If you know of media 
events where Kendra could be given a stand and speaking slots then let us 
know - you'll be surprised at how keen organisers are to gift us a stand.
 

Use Kendra to get into events! Look at events we're targeting, add your own 
events and help liaise with the organisers:
 
http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?FutureEvents

The DCIA P2P session was great fun too. We were all agreeing about the need 
for open protocols within the content marketplace:
 
http://digital-lifestyles.info/next-generation-p2p-digital-hollywood-europe-synopsis-pt-23
 
For a picture of our stand:
http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?DHE2006

2. TV OVER NET - DANIEL TALKS - FREE AND 25% DISCOUNT FOR CONFERENCE

5000 people are expected at the exhibition. We have stand number 2 kindly 
provided by the organisers. We have free access to the conference for 
Kendra stand volunteers - contact Singh Gurbir 
<gurbir at gurbir dot co dot uk> if you are interested in a tour of stand 
duty. For those who want to pay we have 25% discount for Kendra 
participants and let me know.
 

We are also planning on holding a Kendra meeting and press conference 
around the time of this event. If you are interested in attending then drop 
me a line.
 

We are looking to produce a brochure insert to be given to exhibition 
punters and conference delegates. If you want to get your company and 
products/services in front of 6000 people then talk to us about 
sponsorship.  
 

"The TV Over Net conference will feature international content providers, 
ISPs and broadcasters including Google, BSkyB, ITV Local, NTL & Vividas. It 
will share in the combined networking area with both the IPTV World Forum 
and The Connected Home with over 150 companies exhibiting. With over 300 
visitors anticipated, the TV Over Net conference is dedicated to this 
emerging platform and will investigate the impact that broadcast-quality 
streaming TV and VOD over broadband will have on content and channel 
owners, classic Pay TV content aggregators and platform operators."
 

TV Over Net - 25% discount - Daniel Harris talks - http://www.tvover-net.com
 
IPTV World Forum - 15% discount - http://www.iptv-forum.com
The Connected Home - 15% discount - http://www.the-connected-home.co.uk
05 - 07/03/2007 - Olympia, London, United Kingdom - Junction Group

3. UPGRADE KENDRA WEBSITE TO DRUPAL CMS

We need to update and develop the Kendra Initiative website. We need to 
make it a whole lot easier to collaborate and post information. We need to 
make it look a whole lot prettier and add some multilingual pages too. We 
need RSS feeds and a nice clean CSS. We need a full content management 
system. So, over the coming months we'll be investigating porting the 
website, wiki, forums, etc over to Drupal.
 

If you know Drupal and can help in the project then join us on the Kendra 
Developers mailing list and on the wiki:
 
http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?KendraWebsiteUpdate

4. IPTV WORLD FORUM - 15% DISCOUNT FOR CONFERENCE

"The IPTV World Forum is to set a new standard this year as it doubles in 
size once again. Now in its third year, the IPTV World Forum will be held 
over all 3 floors of the Olympia Conference Centre in London on March 5th 
â?? 7th and will be co hosting the simultaneous Connected Home, and TV Over 
Net conferences. We are anticipating over 5000 visitors, and will host in 
excess of 150 exhibitors. The conference will feature over 30 worldwide 
telcos & ISPs discussing IPTV service deployment issues including 
Telefonica, PCCW, Belgacom, BT, SaskTel, Deutsche Telekom AG/T-Com, 
Telstra, T-Online France, NetCologne, Telekom Austria, Fastweb, BSkyB, 
Orange, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Siminn, to name a few. Also featured will be 
leading content players and broadcasters as well as an IPTV showcase area 
in the exhibition featuring service demonstrations from 25 leading 
worldwide IPTV deployments, and an IPTV awards ceremony."
 

5. VIDEO FORUM FEATURES IWA AWARDS
 
The Video Forum looks like an exciting event too. Entrance is free: 
http://www.videoforum.co.uk

The International Webcasting Association awards will take place at the 
Video Forum, Earls Court 2, London on Tuesday 6th February 2007:
 
http://iwaeurope.org/awards.htm

"For the chance to win an IWA, make sure you submit your entries ASAP. The 
judge's deadline for entries is fast approaching. We already have a number 
of nominations and remember you can put forward any company or event you 
like by simply sending us an email."
 

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All power to you for 2007.

Many thanks for your continued support.

Exciting news coming up in the next newsletter!

Cheers Daniel

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