Re: BarCamp like for the HTML WG.

Karl Dubost wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was looking at the People Location page for the HTML WG. Many people 
> didn't put their name there, but from what I can see. It seems that 
> there is a majority of people on USA/Canada East Cost and Europe.
> 
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/PeopleLocation
> 
> I was then wondering how many people would be able to participate to a 
> meeting for HTML WG either on the west coast or on in Europe,
> or maybe both at the same time.
> 
> There are quite cool topics that could be addressed during these meetings.
> 
>    * How do we organize the test cases?
>      but even more let's do a test case
>      party during the meeting with direct testing.

FYI: html5lib has test cases:

http://html5lib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/testdata/

>    * Review of the issues which seem to not have
>      been addressed during the last 4 months?
>    * How to organize the templates to create a tutorial?
>      and maybe even drafting a few of them. Test
>      Cases could be a good opportunity
>    * Identify the parts were browsers have the
>      biggest lack of interop?
> 
> People could also introduces the cool hack and development they do with 
> HTML 5.
> Series of Lightning talks.
> 
>     * What's implemented in Opera, Safari, Mozilla and IE?
>     * the different parsing libraries html5lib/python (anne/james) ruby 
> (sam)

FYI: 5 people have contributed to the Ruby library, and the only library 
I personally actually make use of is the Python one, and I have 
contributed significantly to that one too.

>     * the conformance checkers

html5lib (both the Python and Ruby versions) have the beginnings of 
conformance checkers.  Try "python parse.py -e http://google.com/"

>     * any tidy out there?

html5lib does a decent job of tidy.

"python parse.py http://google.com".  There also are a wide variety of 
options, like --omit-optional-tags, --quote-attr-values, and 
--use-trailing-solidus.

>     * etc.
>     * State of art of implementation in accessibility software.
> 
> If people can't be on the site of the meeting, they try to find someone 
> else on the list that can present their stuff to other people.
> 
> 
> For european site, last year we had parisweb 2006, which was quite a 
> success.
> http://www.parisweb2006.org/
> 
> There will a 2007 edition of Paris Web. I'm pretty sure that would be a 
> good opportunity to have a meeting the days after or before with people 
> from Europe.
> http://www.paris-web.fr/
> 
> On the east coast it could be I guess around Boston, New-York or Montreal.
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
> W3C Conformance Manager, QA Activity Lead
>   QA Weblog - http://www.w3.org/QA/
>      *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
> 
> 
> 
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Received on Tuesday, 26 June 2007 03:22:51 UTC