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- Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 18:42:57 -0400
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The 2010-05-03 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Opens India Office during International Conference in New Delhi
03 May 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8786
As part of its efforts to ensure that core Web standards meet
global needs, W3C announces today the opening of a new Office
in India. The Office is hosted in New Delhi by the Technology
Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme, part of the
India government's Department of Information Technology. W3C
and TDIL will celebrate this collaborative effort at an opening
ceremony on 6 May 2010, as part of a conference organized by
TDIL on the topic of technology, standards and
internationalization. "Increased participation from India will
strengthen W3C's international community," said Jeff Jaffe, W3C
CEO. "I look forward to partnering with TDIL so that we build
the W3C community in India, including drawing Membership from
key industrial and academic leaders. The upcoming conference is
an important first step." Read more in the press release and
learn about the W3C Offices Program.
http://www.w3cindia.in/
http://www.tdil.mit.gov.in/
http://www.w3cindia.in/conf-site/conference-index.htm
http://www.w3.org/2010/05/india-pr
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
W3C Advisory Committee Elects Advisory Board
30 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8784
The W3C Advisory Committee has filled five open seats on the
W3C Advisory Board. Created in 1998, the Advisory Board
provides guidance to the Team on issues of strategy,
management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution.
Beginning 1 July 2010, the nine Advisory Board participants are
Jean-François Abramatic (IBM), Ann Bassetti (The Boeing
Company), Jim Bell (HP), Michael Champion (Microsoft), Don
Deutsch (Oracle), Robert Freund (Hitachi), Ora Lassila (Nokia),
Charles McCathieNevile (Opera Software), and Takeshi Natsuno
(Keio University). Steve Zilles continues as interim Advisory
Board Chair. Read more about the Advisory Board.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ab/
CSS Template Layout Module Draft Published
29 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8783
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Working Draft of "CSS Template Layout Module." This
specification is part of level 3 of CSS and contains features
to describe layouts at a high level, meant for tasks such as
the positioning and alignment of "widgets" in a graphical user
interface or the layout grid for a page or a window, in
particular when the desired visual order is different from the
order of the elements in the source document. Learn more about
the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-css3-layout-20100429/
http://www.w3.org/Style/
W3C to Examine Privacy Challenges of Advanced Web Technologies in
Workshop
27 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8782
The broad availability of possibly sensitive data collected
through location sensors and other facilities in a Web browser
illustrates the broad new privacy challenges Web users face
today. For example, new APIs in Web browsers running on a
mobile device provide Web applications with access to GPS data
or a camera. W3C invites the community to examine these privacy
challenges at a Workshop on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs,
12-13 July 2010 in London, England, and hosted by Vodafone.
Workshop participants will review recent experience and
investigate strategies for effective, near-term privacy
protection on the Web. Anyone who submits a position paper
following the guidelines may participate, space permitting.
There is no fee to participate and W3C Membership is not
required. Paper submissions are due 1 June. For more
information, see the Workshop home page.
http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/
http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/submit
http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/#eoi
http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2010-05-13 (13 MAY) – 2010-05-14 (14 MAY)
Workshop on Future Standards for Model-Based User
Interfaces
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/mbui/cfp
Rome, Italy
Hosted by CNR/ISTI
Web application developers face increasing difficulties due
to wide variations in device capabilities, in the details
of the standards they support, the need to support
assistive technologies for accessibility, the demand for
richer user interfaces, the suites of programming languages
and libraries, and the need to contain costs and meet
challenging schedules during the development and
maintenance of applications. Research work on model-based
design of context-sensitive user interfaces has sought to
address the challenge of reducing the costs for developing
and maintaining multi-target user interfaces through a
layered architecture that separates out different concerns.
Workshop participants will collectively help to identify
opportunities and challenges for new open standards in the
area, particularly concerning the semantics and syntaxes of
task, abstract and concrete user interface models. In
addition, workshop participants will have the opportunity
to discuss the role of model-based approaches in relation
to other standards, for instance, XForms, ANSI/CEA-2018 and
MDA, and the relationship to work on standards for Web
delivery including HTML5 and browser scripting APIs.
* 2010-06-15 (15 JUN) – 2010-06-16 (16 JUN)
Augmented Reality on the Web
http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-augmented-reality-workshop-om
web.htm
Barcelona, Spain
Augmented reality (AR) is a long standing topic in its own
right but it has not been developed on the Web platform. As
mobile devices become more powerful and feature-rich, the
workshop will explore the possible convergence of AR and
the Web. The objective of this Workshop is to provide a
single forum for researchers and technologists to discuss
the state of the art for AR on the Web, particularly the
mobile platform, and what role standardization should play
for Open Augmented Reality.
* 2010-06-18 (18 JUN) – 2010-06-19 (19 JUN)
W3C Workshop on Conversational Applications
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/convapps/cfp
Somerset, NJ, USA
Openstream
The goal of the workshop is to understand the limitations
of the current W3C language model in order to develop a
more comprehensive model. We plan to collect and analyze
use cases and prioritize requirements that ultimately will
be used to identify improvements to the W3C language model.
Just as W3C developed SSML 1.1 to broaden the languages for
which SSML is useful, this effort will result in improved
support for language capabilities that are unsupported
today.
* 2010-06-26 (26 JUN) – 2010-06-27 (27 JUN)
RDF Next Steps
http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/
Palo Alto, CA
Hosted by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology
(NCBO), at Stanford University
The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Web
community on whether and, if yes, in which direction "RDF"
should evolve. One of the main issues the Workshop should
help deciding is whether it is timely for W3C to start a
new RDF Working Group to define and standardize a next
version of RDF.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/
* 2010-07-12 (12 JUL) – 2010-07-13 (13 JUL)
W3C Workshop on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs
http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/
London, England
Hosted by Vodafone
As the Web advances toward becoming an application
development platform that addresses needs previously met by
native applications, work proceeds on APIs to access
information that was previously not available to Web
developers. The broad availability of possibly sensitive
data collected through location sensors and other
facilities in a Web browser is just one example of the
broad new privacy challenges that the Web faces today.
Earlier approaches to address privacy issues for the Web,
especially through policy languages, have not seen broad
implementation in current-generation Web browsers.
This workshop serves to investigate strategies toward
better privacy protection on the Web that are effective and
lead to benefits in the near term.
W3C Blog
* Truly W3C Community building at WWW2010 (Part 1)
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/05/truly_w3c_community_building_a
3 May 2010 by Marie-Claire Forgue
http://www.w3.org/People/mcf/
* New Release of the W3C Cheat Sheet
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/04/new_release_of_the_w3c_cheat_s
27 April 2010 by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
http://www.w3.org/People/Dom/
Upcoming Talks
* 2010-05-03 (3 MAY)
How to make business worldwide with the multilingual web
keynote by Felix Sasaki
Business Information Systems 2010
http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/13th_bis/
Berlin, Germany
* 2010-05-04 (4 MAY)
The semantic web and its applications
by Eyal Sela
INFO 2010
http://www.teldan.com/Teldan08/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=
1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=664
Tel Aviv, Israel
* 2010-05-05 (5 MAY)
How to predict the future – Challenges for HTML5, CSS3 and
other new Web standards
by Bert Bos
University of Oviedo Department of Computer Science
Oviedo, Spain
* 2010-05-07 (7 MAY)
Some Steps from the Web to a Semantic Web
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0507NewDelhi-KB-IH/
World Wide Web: Technology, Standards and
Internationalization Conference
http://www.w3cindia.in/conf-site/conference-index.htm
New Delhi, India
* 2010-05-10 (10 MAY)
Accessibility Now
keynote by Shawn Henry
AccessU
http://www.knowbility.org/conference/
Austin, TX, USA
* 2010-05-10 (10 MAY)
Web Accessibility from the Usability and UX Perspectives
by Shawn Henry
AccessU, Usability Track
http://www.knowbility.org/conference/?content=usabilitytrac
k
Austin, TX, USA
* 2010-05-24 (24 MAY)
Develop a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your
Organization
by Shawn Henry
UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
Design for the World
https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
x.new
Munich, Germany
* 2010-05-25 (25 MAY)
Les standards ouverts du Web et les logiciels libres
associés
http://www.w3c.org.ma/Talks/Tanger2010/openStandards
by Najib Tounsi
INTERNATIONAL FREE-LIBRE SOFTWARE DAYS, towards an
ecological computing
http://jlazaar.free.fr/lacolombe/Affiche-Workshoplacolombe.
pdf
TANGIER , Morocco
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
Transforming eGov Accessibility
by Judy Brewer
Gov 2.0 Expo
http://www.gov2expo.com/gov2expo2010/
Washington, DC, USA
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
How Does Accessibility Fit into Today’s Usability Practice?
panel features Shawn Henry
UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
Design for the World
https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
x.new
Munich, Germany
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
Semantically-Enabled Standard development
by Laurent Lefort
Metadata Australia 2010 Conference - Sharing Data, Sharing
Ideas
http://www.metadataaustralia2010.com/
Canberra, Australia
* 2010-06-09 (9 JUN)
Standards and Best Practices for the Multilingual Web
by Richard Ishida
Localization World
http://www.localizationworld.com/
Berlin, Germany
* 2010-06-10 (10 JUN)
SVG: Today and Tomorrow
by Doug Schepers
@media 2010
http://atmedia.webdirections.org/
London, United Kingdom
* 2010-06-22 (22 JUN)
Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0622-SemTech-IH/
by Ivan Herman
2010 Semantic Technology Conference
http://www.semantic-conference.com/
San Francisco, CA, USA
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