W3C Public Newsletter, 2009-06-01

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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Opens Senegal Office

   W3C announces today the launch of the W3C Senegal Office, hosted by
   the Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique (ESP), attached to the UCAD
   (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), in Dakar, Senegal. Ibrahima Ngom
   (ESP) and Alex Corenthin (ISOC Senegal) will jointly manage this new
   W3C Office. W3C looks forward to increasing interaction with the
   French-speaking community, especially neighboring countries in West
   Africa. The opening ceremony will take place 27 May. Read the press
   release and learn more about the W3C Offices, which assist W3C with
   promotion efforts in local languages, help broaden W3C’s
   geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C
   Activities.

   http://www.w3c.sn/
   http://www.w3c.sn/
   http://www.esp.sn/
   http://www.ucad.sn/
   http://www.w3.org/2009/05/sn-launch.html
   http://www.w3.org/2009/05/senegal-pressrelease
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

Candidate Recommendation Updated: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language

   The XML Processing Model Working Group has published an updated
   Candidate Recommendation of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." This
   specification describes the syntax and semantics of a language for
   describing operations to be performed on XML documents. The status
   section of the document summarizes the list of changes since the
   Candidate Recommendation was first published. Learn more about the
   Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-xproc-20090528/
   http://www.w3.org/XML/

Last Call: Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration

   The Web Applications Working Group has published the Last Call
   Working Draft of "Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration." This
   document standardizes a packaging format for a class of software
   application known as a widget. Widgets are full-fledged client-side
   applications that are authored using Web standards and packaged for
   distribution. They are typically downloaded and installed on a
   client machine or device where they run as stand-alone applications,
   but they can also be embedded into Web pages and run in a Web
   browser. Examples range from simple clocks, stock tickers, news
   casters, games and weather forecasters, to complex applications that
   pull data from multiple sources to be "mashed-up" and presented to a
   user in some interesting and useful way. Comments are welcome
   through 19 June. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

   http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-widgets-20090528/
   http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/

Relationship Between Mobile Web and Web Content Accessibility Working
Draft Published

   The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the WAI Education
   and Outreach Working Group have published an updated Working Draft
   of "Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web
   Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)." This draft is complete
   and is provided as a last opportunity for public review and comment
   before publication as a W3C Working Group Note. See the announcement
   email.

   The groups encourage people to start by reading Web Content
   Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for
   People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices, which shows how
   design goals for accessibility and mobile access overlap. A third
   document, Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device
   Users and People with Disabilities, provides examples of barriers
   that people (without disabilities) face when interacting with Web
   content via mobile devices, and similar barriers for people with
   disabilities using desktop computers. Learn more about the Mobile
   Web Initiative and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/BPWG/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-mwbp-wcag-20090526/
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2009AprJun/0127
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/experiences
   http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/
   Past home page news...

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

W3C Questions and Answers Blog 
     * HTML5 isn't a standard yet by Philippe Le Hégaret
       http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/05/_watching_the_google_io.html
       http://www.w3.org/People/LeHegaret/
     * Past Q&A Blog ...
       http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/

Upcoming Meetings

     * Using Ink in Multimodal Applications within the W3C's Multimodal
       Architecture and Interfaces, 10-11 July
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 4 June, Rabat, Morocco: Content for All: Web Accessibility
       Guidelines. Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at International
       Conference on Next Generation Networks and Services.
     * 6 June, Danbury, CT, USA: Digital Media for All . Jeanne
       Spellman presents at Connecticut Film Festival.
     * 9 June, Premantura, Croatia: International Standards for Web
       Accessibility. Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at Pristupačnost ili
       informacijske barijere?.
     * 11 June, Santander, Spain: Guidelines for Mobile Web Content
       Adaptation by Third-party Proxies. François Daoust presents at
       ICT-MobileSummit 2009.
     * 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.
     * 30 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The Future of Code. Steven
       Pemberton presents at Kings of Code.
     * 14 July, Linz, Austria: WCAG 2.0 ist da, was nun?. Shadi
       Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2009.
     * 20 July, Seattle, WA, USA: Accessibility: It's for Everyone and
       Everything. Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World 2009
       Seattle.
     * 21 July, Seattle, WA, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World.
       Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World 2009 Seattle (discount
       "Passport" registration code: S9W06).
     * 24 July, San Diego, USA: WCAG 2.0 Test Samples Repository. Shadi
       Abou-Zahra presents at HCI International 2009.
     * 29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.
       Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
     * 30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
       Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
     * 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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