Belgian free software hacktivists are doing it again. The FOSDEM will take place in Brussels on February 15 and 16. I'm looking forward to listen Miguel de Icaza's talk on the Mono Project.
XML guru James Clark made a significant speech about the challenges the XML community will have to deal with. (Oops! Thanks Vincent for reporting the misleading link)
The nice folks at LogiLab just released PyPaSax, a tool that transforms Python source code declarations in XML to make them available for any further processing.
IBM developerWorks has an article introducing a new IETF standard called BEEP, an XML dialect designed to build application-layer protocols. People who like gory details may want to check the RFC3080.