W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-05-14

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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Opens Southern Africa Office

   W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Southern Africa
   Office. The Office is hosted at the Meraka Institute, a unit of the
   Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria,
   South Africa. Quentin Williams is Office Manager. Daniel Dardailler
   and Stephane Boyera are among those who attended the opening
   ceremonies on 14 May. Visit the Offices home page.

   http://www.w3c.org.za/
   http://www.w3c.org.za/
   http://www.meraka.org.za/
   http://www.csir.co.za/
   http://www.meraka.org.za/innovate/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

RDF Access to Relational Databases: Advance Notice of Workshop

   W3C plans a Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases on 25-26
   October in Cambridge, MA, USA, hosted by Novartis. Workshop
   attendees from the Semantic Web and relational database communities
   will examine commonalities, distinctions and next steps for
   expressing relational data in RDF. A Call for Participation is
   expected in late May or June. Read about W3C Workshops.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/03/RdfRDB/
   http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/

W3C Invites Public Discussion of Current, Future Work at WWW2007

   We invite you to attend the W3C Track of the Sixteen International
   World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), to be held in Banff, Alberta,
   Canada, from 9-11 May. Chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue, the W3C track
   will cover recent achievements and future work plans of W3C
   Activities. Read the press release.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/05/w3c-track.html
   http://www2007.org/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
   http://www.w3.org/2007/04/www2007-pressrelease.html

W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting

   W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 6-8 May in
   Banff/Calgary, Alberta, Canada. W3C Member organizations participate
   in two days of discussions and strategic planning about W3C
   Activities and future work. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and
   join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting to be held with
   Technical Plenary Week on 4-10 November in Cambridge, MA, USA.

   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join
   Past home page news...

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

Upcoming Meetings

     * W3C Workshop on HTML Mail, 24 May
     * W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
       Applications, 5-6 June
     * Toward More Transparent Government:Workshop on eGovernment and
       the Web, 18-19 June
     * W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
       October
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 14 May, Paris, France: XML vocabulary design and specification
       using XML Schema 1.0. Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial
       at XTech 2007: The ubiquitous Web.
     * 15 May, Paris, France: W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.
       Dave Raggett presents at XTech 2007.
     * 15 May, Paris, France: XForms 1.1. Steven Pemberton gives a
       tutorial at XTech 2007: “The Ubiquitous Web”.
     * 23 May, Madrid, Spain: La Administración Electrónica y la Web:
       una historia de amor?. José Manuel Alonso presents at Día W3C en
       España 2007.
     * 24 May, San Francisco, USA: Designing for International Users:
       Practical Tips. Richard Ishida presents at @media07 America.
     * 28 May, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Global eStandards and Web
       Architectures for eGovernment projects. José Manuel Alonso
       presents at 13th GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum.
     * 7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web Accessiblity.
       Shawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
     * 21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with Accessibility. Shawn
       Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
     * 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML
       Conversion. Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at
       International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
       (ICDAR).
     * 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for
       Pen-Based Computing. Stephen M. Watt presents at International
       Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
     * 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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     * Marden Edwards Limited [United Kingdom]
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