Three international statistical meetings in 2010 included coverage of SDMX:

• OECD / UNECE Expert Group on SDMX, Geneva, 8-9 March 2010
• UNECE / Eurostat / OECD Work Session on Statistical Metadata (METIS), Geneva, 10-12 March, 2010
• UNECE / Eurostat / OECD Meeting on the Management of Statistical Information Systems (MSIS), Daejeon, Republic of Korea, 26-29 April 2010

Working papers and presentations are available through the respective web pages.

The SDMX Users Forum is now available to the SDMX User Community. The Forum provides a virtual discussion space for individuals and organisations interested in SDMX and/or in the process of implementing SDMX. It is a place where issues, questions, and ideas can be brought forward for discussion by the active SDMX Community and experts. The SDMX sponsors welcome discussions in the Forum which will help to increase the participation of the SDMX users in the adoption and the development of the standards. 
The forum is accessible at http://www.sdmxusers.org/forum.

Several training sessions on SDMX are being organised in November 2009.

The UNECE is organizing SDMX training for statisticians working in international organizations in Geneva on 12 November. The training sessions will be held in the Palais des Nations (agenda).

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Westerns Asia, together with the Arab Institute for Training and Research In Statistics, is organising a seminar on SDMX in Beirut, Lebanon, on 16-17-18 November 2009 with support from trainers from Eurostat and ISTAT (agenda).

Other training sessions:

ECB, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main
9-10 November 2009: SDMX Web services workshop

Eurostat, Luxembourg
• 16-17 November 2009: SDMX training course for developers (.NET)
• 18-19 November 2009: SDMX training course for developers (JAVA)
Contact: ESTAT-SDMX [at] ec.europa.eu

BIS, Bank for International Settlements, Basel
18 November 2009: SDMX Workshop for BIS Data Bank Experts

Updated information about SDMX implementations, operational or envisaged by international organisations and countries, is provided in the Implementations section.
You are encouraged to share information concerning your SDMX plans and developments by sending the standard form provided in that section to the SDMX Secretariat at secretariat@sdmx.org.