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- Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:31:32 -0500
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The 2012-02-20 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
http://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20120220
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Opens Office in Russia
16 February 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9364
W3C announces today the opening of a new Russia Offices, as
part of increasing inclusion and participation in W3C. The
Office is hosted by the National Research University "Higher
School of Economics" (HSE), founded in 1992. As one of Moscow's
leading Universities, HSE will work with W3C to strengthen ties
to both industry and research in Russia as well as HSE's many
international academic and industry partners.
http://w3c.org.ru/
"I am happy to welcome W3C in Russia," said Victor Klintsov,
Deputy Director of Institute of Information Technology at HSE
and the head of the new Office. "It is very positive to see
growing demand for Russian talent not only to be included in
one of the most dynamic industries, but also to shape it.
Second, it is quite important for Russian specialists to
contribute to the most prominent area of Internet development:
the Web."
Read more in our press release.
http://www.w3.org/2012/02/russia-office.html.en
W3C Launches Privacy Interest Group
17 February 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9365
W3C launched today a new Privacy Interest Group, whose mission
is to improve the support of privacy in Web standards by
monitoring ongoing privacy issues that affect the Web,
investigating potential areas for new privacy work, and
providing guidelines and advice for addressing privacy in
standards development. The group may consider issues such as
online tracking; location, health and financial data;
eGovernment initiatives; and online social networking and
identity. Where appropriate, the Interest Group will recommend
areas where W3C should begin recommendation-track standards
work on privacy issues and may prototype or initiate such work
within the group. Participation in the Privacy Interest Group
is open to the public. Learn more about Privacy.
http://www.w3.org/Privacy/
http://www.w3.org/2011/07/privacy-ig-charter
http://www.w3.org/Privacy/
SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation
16 February 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9363
The SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group has published a W3C
Recommendation of "SOAP over Java Message Service 1.0." This
document specifies how SOAP binds to a messaging system that
supports the Java Message Service (JMS) [Java Message Service].
Binding is specified for both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 using the
SOAP 1.2 Protocol Binding Framework. This specification also
describes how to use WSDL documents to indicate and control the
use of this binding. Learn more about the Web Services
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/soapjms/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-soapjms-20120216/
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control
Abstraction Draft Published
16 February 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9362
The Voice Browser Working Group has published a Working Draft
of "State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control
Abstraction." This document describes SCXML, or the "State
Chart extensible Markup Language". SCXML provides a generic
state-machine based execution environment based on CCXML and
Harel State Tables. Learn more about the Voice Browser
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Voice/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-scxml-20120216/
http://www.w3.org/Voice/Activity
Last Call: CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3
14 February 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9360
The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a
Last Call Working Draft of "CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module
Level 3" for the purpose of updating the previous Candidate
Recommendation. This module of CSS contains the features of CSS
level 3 relating to borders and backgrounds. The main
extensions compared to level 2 are borders consisting of
images, boxes with multiple backgrounds, boxes with rounded
corners and boxes with shadows. All persons are encouraged to
review the "changes" and send comments to the www-style mailing
list. The deadline for comments is 6 March 2012. Learn more
about the Style Activity.
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-background-20120214/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-background-20120214/#changes-
2011
http://www.w3.org/Style/
XInclude 1.1 Requirement and Use Cases Note Published
14 February 2012 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2012#entry-9361
The XML Core Working Group has published a Group Note of
"XInclude 1.1 Requirement and Use Cases." This document
outlines the requirements and use cases for to changes to
XInclude: support for RFC 5147 and improved communication
between the pre- and post-inclusion Infosets. Learn more about
the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Core/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/NOTE-xinclude-11-requirements-2012021
4/
http://www.w3.org/XML/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2012-03-15 (15 MAR) – 2012-03-16 (16 MAR)
The Multilingual Web – The Way Ahead
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/luxembourg-workshop
/luxembourg-cfp
Luxembourg
Hosted by the Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) of
the European Commission.
Building on the success of the preceding events in Madrid,
Pisa, and Limerick, this workshop will once again bring
together speakers and participants with an interest in best
practices and standards aimed at helping content creators,
localizers, tools developers, and others meet the
challenges of the multilingual Web. It provides further
opportunities for networking across communities that span
the various aspects involved.
http://multilingualweb.eu/
W3C Blog
* Make Your Presentations Accessible to All updated - share
the news
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/make_presentations_accessible
20 February 2012 by Shawn Henry
http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
* W3C in Russia
http://www.w3.org/QA/2012/02/w3c_in_russia
18 February 2012 by Bernard Gidon
https://www.w3.org/Team/Bgidon/
Upcoming Talks
* 2012-02-27 (27 FEB)
Building the Business Case in your Organization
by Shawn Henry
AccessU at CSUN
http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/accessu.php
San Diego, CA, USA
* 2012-03-13 (13 MAR)
Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms,
standards, and tools
by Deborah Dahl
Mobile Voice 2012
http://mobilevoiceconference.com/
San Francisco, USA
* 2012-03-13 (13 MAR)
EMMA 1.1: Enriched information from speech and multimodal
inputs
Mobile Voice Conference 2012
http://www.mobilevoiceconference.com/
San Francisco, USA
* 2012-03-13 (13 MAR)
Options for Multimodal Applications -- platforms,
standards, and tools
by Deborah Dahl
Mobile Voice 2012
http://mobilevoiceconference.com/
San Francisco, USA
* 2012-03-15 (15 MAR)
What is Happening in the W3C Semantic Web Activity?
http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0315-Luxembourg-IH/#talk
keynote by Ivan Herman
The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead
http://www.multilingualweb.eu/en/documents/luxembourg-works
hop
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
* 2012-03-19 (19 MAR)
Report on the "Future of Research Communications" Workshop
http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/0319-Dagstuhl-IH/#talk
by Ivan Herman
Dagstuhl Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
Dagstuhl, Germany
* 2012-03-21 (21 MAR)
Transforming the Web together
by Bernard Gidon
Web-centric IT“
Cologne, Germany
* 2012-04-17 (17 APR)
Developing Mobile Web Applications
W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2012)
http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track
Lyon, France
* 2012-04-17 (17 APR)
Open Data in Practice
W3C Tutorial Track, 21st International World Wide Web
Conference (WWW2012)
http://www.w3.org/2012/04/tuto-track
Lyon, France
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