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- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:19:43 -0500
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W3C Weekly News
17 September - 22 September 2006
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Mobile Web in Developing Countries: Call for Participation
Position papers are due 1 November for the Workshop on the Mobile Web
in Developing Countries to be held 5-6 December in Bangalore, India.
Jataayu Software hosts. Participants will discuss mobile Web access
within developing countries in terms of needs, blocking factors and
potential uses. "We must ensure that the Web is designed to meet the
needs of sparser populations and of those whose only access to the Web
may be on their phone," said Tim Berners-Lee (W3C). Sponsorships are
available to enable participation by those who might not otherwise be
able to attend due to travel or other costs. Read the press release,
about W3C Workshops and about the Mobile Web Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/2006/09/mwiec-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/MWI-EC/cfp.html
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/MWI-EC/sponsors.html
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
Ralph Swick Named Acting Technology and Society Domain Leader
W3C has named Ralph Swick Acting Technology and Society Domain Leader
directing the privacy, security and Semantic Web Activities. Ralph has
served as T&S Technical Director since 1997 and will continue those
responsibilities as well. Ralph came to W3C from technical direction
and architecture for the X Window System, and from Digital and MIT
Project Athena where he engineered information filtering and
computer-supported collaboration software. Ralph is standing in as
Domain Leader for Daniel J. Weitzner, who will turn most of his
attention for nine months to Web privacy research at MIT/CSAIL. Read
about T&S, W3C's work at the intersection of Web technology and public
policy, and about W3C.
http://www.w3.org/People/all#swick
http://www.w3.org/TandS/
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/
Paged Media, Values and Units: CSS3 Working Drafts
The CSS Working Group has released two updated Working Drafts for
Cascading Style Sheets Level 3 (CSS3). "Generated Content for Paged
Media" describes features such as cross-references, footnotes, headers
and footers often used in printed publications. "Values and Units"
explains specified, computed, and actual values and defines common
values and units in one specification which can be referred to by other
CSS3 modules. Visit the CSS home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-gcpm-20060919/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-values-20060919/
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
IETF Publishes New Language Tag Specifications
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published two new
specifications for language tags. "RFC 4646: Tags for the
Identification of Languages" replaces RFC 3066 and, with the new IANA
Language Subtag Registry, extends language tag syntax to address a
number of long-standing issues. The separate "RFC 4647: Matching of
Language Tags" addresses how to match the new tags. The W3C I18n GEO
Working Group provides a gentle introduction to the new syntax.
Visit the Internationalization home page.
http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/
http://www.w3.org/International/
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4646.txt
http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4647.txt
Register for the XML Access Languages Conference, Oxford, UK
The W3C Office for the UK and Ireland in conjunction with XML UK
holds the XML Access Languages conference on 26 September at the CCLRC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford, UK. Mark Birbeck, Michael
Kay, Brian Matthews, Liam Quin, Andy Seaborne, Jeni Tennison, Chris
Wallace, and Michael Wilson present the latest advances in XSLT,
XQuery, and other XML technologies. All registrations must be received
by 17:00 UTC on 22 September. Visit the XML home page.
http://www.xmluk.org/xmlaccess0906.htm
http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
Upcoming W3C Talks
* Karl Dubost and Daniel Glazman present at Paris Web on
22 September in Paris, France.
* Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke give a tutorial at
Web Directions on 26 September in Sydney, Australia.
* José Manuel Alonso participates in a panel at III Simposio
Pluridisciplinar sobre Objetos y Diseños de Aprendizaje
Apoyados en la Tecnología (od@06) on 26 September in Oviedo,
Spain.
* Liam Quin presents and Michael Wilson runs the W3C booth at
XML Access Languages on 26 September at the Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK.
* On behalf of the W3C Germany and Austria Office, Klaus
Birkenbihl and Ivan Herman present at XML-Tage on 27
September in Berlin, Germany.
* On behalf of the W3C Spain Office, Richard Ishida gives
a keynote at Fundamentos Web 2006 on 3 October in Oviedo,
Asturias, Spain.
* Molly E. Holzschlag and Andy Clarke give a tutorial at
Carson Workshops: CSS for Developers on 19 October in
London, UK.
* Richard Ishida gives a keynote at LRC XI on 26 October in
Dublin, Ireland.
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
an RSS channel.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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