Weekly digest of W3C news and trends: Mozilla implements EME, Draft charter of Web Payments Interest Group, W3C Advisory Board election, etc.

This is the 9-19 May 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and  
trends" that the W3C Communications Team prepares for the W3C Membership  
and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived [1]) [sent  
separately]. This digest aggregates information about W3C from online  
media, a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in online media.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3c-digest/



1) W3C and HTML5 related Twitter trends
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[Things that were tweeted frequently, things that caught my attention, etc.
  Most *recent* first (popularity is flagged with the figure between  
parenthesis —that is the number of times the same URIs or tweet was  
quoted/RTed.)]


* (34) EME: Open Letter on European Commission about DRM in HTML5
<http://fsfe.org/activities/drm/open-letter-ec-drm-html.en.html>

* (13) Web Payment: First draft of future web payments interest group  
charter published
<http://www.w3.org/community/webpaymentsigcharter/2014/05/15/first-draft-of-future-web-payments-interest-group-charter-published/>

* (42) W3C AB: Boaz Sender running for the W3C Advisory Board
<http://boazsender.com/2014-05-14-running-for-the-w3c-advisory-board.html>

* (4.7K) Event: Global Accessibility Awareness Day  
<http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>, More results on #GAAD:
<http://topsy.com/s?q=%23GAAD>

* (928) EFF: Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose
<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/mozilla-and-drm>

* (906) Mozilla: Reconciling Mozilla's Mission and the W3C EME
<https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-mission-and-w3c-eme/>

* (15) W3C Business Group: First Draft of Vehicle Data Interfaces  
published by Automotive and Web Platform Business Group
<http://www.w3.org/community/autowebplatform/2014/05/14/first-draft-of-vehicle-data-interfaces-published-by-automotive-and-web-platform-business-group/>

* (66) CSS: Grid Layout Module Level 1, Generated Content for Paged Media  
Module Drafts published
<http://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/3843>



2) Open Web & net neutrality
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The Verge: The real battle for net neutrality just began (15 May 2014),  
Adi Robertson
<http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/15/5717928/fcc-votes-on-net-neutrality-proposal-in-may-meeting>

Gizmodo: So Long, Open Web: Mozilla Accepts Closed Source DRM and We All  
Lose (15 May 2014), Danny O'Brien - EFF
<http://gizmodo.com/so-long-open-web-mozilla-accepts-closed-source-drm-an-1576746922>

Boston Globe: FCC plan guts net neutrality; open Web needs protection (14  
May 2014),
<http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2014/05/13/fcc-plan-guts-net-neutrality-open-web-needs-protection/BCnfi9sEIYBVQcFdI7utpJ/story.html>



3) W3C in the Press (or blogs):
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6 articles since the 9-May Digest, all about Mozilla implementing EME.
You may read them in our Press Clippings page:  
http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles




-- 
  Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

Received on Monday, 19 May 2014 17:18:46 UTC