[announce] QA IG Meeting At Technical Plenary 2006 in Cannes Mandelieu

Dear participants of Evangelist and QA IG,

There will be a QA IG meeting in Cannes, Mandelieu (France) during  
the W3C Technical Plenary in February/March 2006. (See Technical  
Plenary and WG Meeting Week, Royal Hotel Casino / Mandelieu, France,   
27 February - 03 March 2006 [1] for general information)

Short summary:
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	All worging groups (WGs) and interest groups of W3C are meeting  
during this week. This big meeting is the opportunity to move the  
work forward, but also to solve issues which requests coordination  
between WGs. Some WGs/IGs are open to the public, some not. You have  
to ask to the chair of one particular WGs to participate and feel a  
form to register (when you are not a W3C Member). [2]
	It's a wonderful opportunity for you to meet many of the engineers,  
people, working on Web standards.
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The Quality Asuurance Interest Group meeting will be
	* OPEN TO PUBLIC *

Date: 27-28 Feb 2006


FAQ for QA IG meeting

1. Deadline for registration
	February 16

2. Agenda
    A preliminary agenda will be posted at http://www.w3.org/QA/ 
2006/02/f2f
    Topics will include:
	* Evangelization + W3C IG Notes: Plan for publication
	* A curriculum for Web standards
	* Markup Validator*S*: Development, future, etc.
	* CHIPs and CUAP Notes
	* QA Findings ala TAG Findings
		- testable and non normative
		- Common EBNF for XML specs
		- etc.
	* EARL update and relations to QA
	* Ongoing development of QA guidelines, tutorials, templates, etc.
	* Test Case Metadata (Concrete Schema)
	* Glossary
	* WAI coordination with QA.
	* dummy Guide to Test Assertions

3. Language
	Meetings will be hold in English. (Though there are many  
participants with different languages skills including French,  
Japanese, German, Strange scandinavian languages, Québécois is  
understood too, etc. )

4. Active participation
	You can decide to be an observer if you don't think you can  
contribute. It's a good way to get a grasp on what's going on, and  
maybe be able to contribute in a way that you had not expected at the  
start.



[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/12/allgroupoverview.html
[2] http://cgi.w3.org/MemberAccess/Public


-- 
Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead
*** Be Strict To Be Cool ***

Received on Tuesday, 17 January 2006 06:29:08 UTC