W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-10-08

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Web Experts Gather for Fundamentos Web 2007

   The W3C Spain Office is pleased to present noted Web standards
   experts at the third edition of Fundamentos Web 2007 (Web
   Foundations 2007) on 3-5 October in Gijón, Asturias, Spain.
   Presenters include Arthur Barstow (Nokia), Dan Brickley (Joost),
   Tantek Çelik (Tantek.com), Fernando Claver (PC ACTUAL), Hannah
   Donovan (Last.fm), Jeremy Keith (Clearleft), Eduardo Manchón Aguilar
   (Panoramio), Matt May (Adobe), Charles McCathieNevile (Opera),
   Ismael Nafría (Prisacom), George Oates (Yahoo!), Allan Sandfeld
   (Change Networks), Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla), Doug Stamper
   (Microsoft), Jeffrey Veen (Google) and Tim Berners-Lee (by video
   link), Bert Bos and Rigo Wenning (W3C).

   http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007/
   http://www.w3c.es/
   http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007/Ponentes/
   http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007/

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 3.0: Working Draft

   The Math Working Group published an updated Working Draft of
   "Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 3.0." MathML is an
   XML application for describing mathematical notation and capturing
   both its structure and content. The goal of MathML is to enable
   mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide
   Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text. Version 3
   adds features such as support for bidirectional text and elementary
   math. Learn more about the Math Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Math/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20071005/
   http://www.w3.org/Math/

Last Call: XHTML Role Attribute Module

   The XHTML2 Working Group released a Last Call Working Draft of
   "XHTML Role Attribute Module." With the role attribute, authors can
   annotate XML languages with machine-readable semantic information
   about the purpose of elements. Use cases include accessibility,
   device adaptation, server-side processing and complex data
   description. The attribute can be integrated into any markup
   language based on "XHTML Modularization." Visit the XHTML2 home
   page.

   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xhtml-role-20071004/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/
   http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group Renewed

   W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Mobile Web Best
   Practices Working Group. Daniel Appelquist (Vodafone) and Jo Rabin
   (mTLD) chair the group which is chartered to produce guidelines,
   checklists and best practice statements to enable the reach of the
   Web to be easily extended onto mobile devices. W3C Members may use
   this form to join the Working Group. Read about the W3C Mobile Web
   Initiative.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/03/MWBP-WG-charter.html
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
   http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/37584/join
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/

Policy Languages Interest Group Launched

   W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Policy Languages
   Interest Group (PLING), chaired by Marco Casassa-Mont (HP Labs) and
   Renato Iannella (NICTA). The group is chartered to discuss
   interoperability, requirements and related needs for integrating and
   computing the results when different policy languages used together,
   for example, OASIS XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup
   Language), IETF Common Policy, and P3P (W3C Platform for Privacy
   Preferences). Participation is open to W3C Members and the public.
   Read about the Privacy Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/Policy/pling/
   http://www.w3.org/Policy/2007/ig-charter.html
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
   http://www.w3.org/Privacy/

Enabling Read Access: Working Draft

   The Web Application Formats Working Group released an updated
   Working Draft of "Enabling Read Access for Web Resources." Sandbox
   restrictions on cross-site access to browsers can be relaxed
   selectively with this mechanism. An HTTP header or XML processing
   instruction or both can indicate that read access is allowed. Read
   about the Rich Web Clients Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-access-control-20071001/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/

Upcoming Meetings

     * W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
       October
     * Workshop on W3C's Multimodal Architecture and Interfaces, 16-17
       November
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 5 October, San Sebastian, Spain: How Web Accesibility Guidelines
       Apply to Design for the Ageing Population. Shadi Abou-Zahra
       presents at AAATE Conference.
     * 8 October, London, United Kingdom: W3C Mobile Web Initiative.
       Philipp Hoschka presents at Mobile Monday London.
     * 10 October, Paris, France: The increasing importance of Open Web
       Standards to improve eGovernment. José Manuel Alonso presents at
       eGovInterop '07.
     * 13 October, Paris, France: L'initiative pour le Web Mobile.
       Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at MobileWeb BarCamp Paris.
     * 15 October, Seattle, Washington, USA: Semi-structured data and
       XML Query . Jim Melton presents at XML @ Boeing 2007.
     * 15 October, Seattle, Washington, USA: XML Schema 1.1 and the
       versioning of XML vocabularies. Michael Sperberg-McQueen
       presents at XML @ Boeing 2007.
     * 15 October, San Jose, USA: An Introduction to Writing Systems &
       Unicode. Richard Ishida gives a tutorial at Internationalization
       & Unicode Conference.
     * 17 October, San Jose, USA: Hints for Designing International Web
       Pages. Richard Ishida presents at Internationalization & Unicode
       Conference.
     * 17 October, Madrid, Spain: Semantic Web: a Short Introduction.
       Ivan Herman presents at “Webelopers Day” of the Internet NG
       Conference.
     * 17 October, Madrid, Spain: How to make the most out of
       eGovernment. José Manuel Alonso presents at “Webelopers Day” of
       the Internet NG Conference.
     * 17 October, San Jose, CA, USA: Internationalization Tag Set 1.0
       – A New Standard for Internationalization and Localization of
       XML. Felix Sasaki presents at Internationalization & Unicode
       Conference 31.
     * 18 October, Darmstadt, Germany: Wege zum Semantischen Web. Klaus
       Birkenbihl presents at 4. Kongress Semantic Web und
       Wissenstechnologien.
     * 19 October, Orlando, FL, USA: Making the Future Web Accessible
       to People with Disabilities. Shawn Henry presents at "I Invent
       the Future" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007.
     * 16 November, Paris, France: Bonnes pratiques du Web mobile.
       Dominique Hazaël-Massieux presents at ParisWeb 2007.
     * 19 November, Beijing, China: Semantic Web Adoption. Ivan Herman
       presents at 首届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2007).
     * 22 November, Hangzhou, China: What is the Semantic Web?. Ivan
       Herman presents at Zheijiang University.
     * View upcoming talks by country
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
       tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
     * More talks...
       http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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