W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-04-13

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Developers to Mobile Widgets, Social Web Camps During
WWW2009

   W3C invites people to attend the W3C Track at WWW2009, in Madrid,
   Spain on 23-24 April 2009. Part of WWW2009, the first day of the
   track is a Mobile Widgets Camp and the second a Social Web Camp.
   Conference participants and the local developer community are
   invited to submit topics of discussion in advance, via the W3C Track
   wikis. In addition to the W3C Track, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director
   and inventor of the Web, will deliver the WWW2009 opening keynote
   titled "Twenty Years: Looking Forward, Looking Back". Read the press
   release.

   http://www.w3.org/2009/04/w3c-track
   http://www2009.org/
   http://esw.w3.org/topic/W3CTrack@WWW09
   http://www.w3.org/2009/04/w3ctrack-pressrelease.html

W3C Germany and Austria Office Moves to Potsdam

   After 12 years of successful work at Fraunhofer (or former GMD) the
   W3C Germany and Austria Office moves from Sankt Augustin (near Bonn)
   to Postdam (near Berlin). The University of Applied Sciences in
   Potsdam (FHP) is the new host of the Office. A ceremonial launch is
   planned for September 2009. Felix Sasaki will be the new Office
   Manager at FHP.

   W3C would like to thank Fraunhofer and the W3C Germany and Austria
   Office staff, led by Thomas Tikwinski and Klaus Birkenbihl before
   him, for their contributions to W3C and the Web during the past 12
   years. Learn more about the W3C Offices, regional W3C
   representatives that help promote the W3C mission.

   http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/
   http://www.w3c.de/
   http://www.fh-potsdam.de/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/

Note Published: W3C Personalization Roadmap: Ubiquitous Web Integration
of AccessForAll 1.0

   The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group has published the
   Group Note of " W3C Personalization Roadmap: Ubiquitous Web
   Integration of AccessForAll 1.0." This document describes an
   activity of integrating personalization with device context for the
   delivery of content materials and interface components that are
   customized to meet both individual personal needs and preferences
   and delivery context. It brings together the work of separate
   standards and specifications organizations and working groups,
   notably W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications working group, IMS Global
   Learning Consortium Accessibility Special Interest group, ISO/IEC
   JTC1 SC36 Information Technology for Learning, Education and
   Training: Human Diversity and Access For All working group and
   associated working groups in SC36. The document should be viewed as
   a roadmap for the work to be undertaken and includes description of
   the basis for the work, the organizational context, the likely
   technologies and a partially complete description of how the
   technologies fit together. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web
   Applications Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-UWA-personalization-roadmap-20090409/
   http://www.w3.org/2007/uwa/

Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation Draft Published

   The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a Working
   Draft of "Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation." This document
   presents the anticipated benefits of the EXI format 1.0 compared to
   XML and gzipped XML. Additionally, tests for compactness include
   comparison to ASN.1 PER. The points of comparison are the
   requirements set by the EXI Working Group charter, based on the
   results of the XML Binary Characterization Working Group. Learn more
   about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-exi-evaluation-20090407/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/
   Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog 
     * SemTech 2009 conference program public by Ivan Herman
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/04/semtech_2009_conference_progra.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
     * Past Q&A Blog ...
       http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 17 April, Washington, DC, USA: Interoperability and Web
       Applications. Kevin Novak presents at eGov Washington Workshop:
       Putting Open Standards to Work for Transparency, Security and
       Interoperability.
     * 18 April, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: The Empowering Web. Steve
       Bratt gives a keynote at Knowledge Globalization Conference
       2009.
     * 20 April, Madrid, Spain: Web Accessibility for Older Users -
       Success and Opportunities. Andrew Arch gives a keynote at
       W4A2009 - International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web
       Accessibility.
     * 23 April, Madrid, Spain: Panel on Multilingual Web Sites.
       Richard Ishida participates in a panel at 18th World Wide Web
       Conference (WWW2009).
     * 24 April, Brussels, Belgium: Improving Society through Better
       Use of Web Standards. Daniel Dardailler presents at Openforum
       Summit 2009.
     * 3 May, Atlanta, GA, USA: Unleashing Opportunities through
       Accessibility. Shawn Henry presents at STC Technical
       Communication Summit.
     * 4 May, Atlanta, GA, USA: Advancing Web Accessibility. Shawn
       Henry presents at STC Technical Communication Summit.
     * 7 May, Oslo, Norway: WCAG 2.0 - addressing the needs of people
       with disabilities and older people.. Andrew Arch presents at Do
       Web Accessibility Guidelines guarantee Universal Design?.
     * 7 May, Hammamet, Tunisia: Web Accessibility with WCAG 2.0:
       International Cooperation, Local Implementation. Shawn Henry
       gives a keynote at ICTA 2009 International Conference on
       Information and Communication Technology & Accessibility.
     * 9 May, Hammamet, Tunisia: Improving Your Web Site with WCAG 2.0.
       Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at ICTA 2009 International
       Conference on Information and Communication Technology &
       Accessibility.
     * 11 June, London, United Kingdom: De-Fragmentation & Apps in the
       Cloud. Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile
       Summit 09.
     * 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?. Ivan
       Herman presents at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
     * 15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
       Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology
       Conference.
     * 16 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introducing OWL 2. Ivan Herman
       participates in a panel at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
     * 17 June, San Jose, USA: XBRL and the Semantic Web. Dave Raggett,
       Diane Mueller present at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
     * 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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