W3C Public Newsletter, 2019-02-18

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Jun Murai enters the French National Order of the Legion of Honour

   18 February 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7570>

   We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jun Murai, W3C Steering Committee Member and Professor of Keio University has accepted the Knight of the Legion of Honour Medal from the French government. The decoration ceremony took place on 13 February at the French Ambassador’s residence. The Legion of Honour is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802.

   French Ambassador to Japan Laurent Pic, who decorated Murai-sensei, introduced Jun Murai as an “Internet Samurai” in the world. Thanks to Jun’s Internet research activities, his accomplishments contributed greatly to the advancement of society as well as technical progress. In addition, France also showed that he has continued to collaborate with Japan and research exchanges with Japan in the Internet field for many years through him.

   [] Following words of thanks, Jun explained in detail the relationship with France in Internet research. “There are a lot of network researchers in the United States but in the part related to standardization, France and Japan combined in many cases, such as the World Wide Web and satellite Internet,” said Jun Murai, before concluding. “I wish this will lead to further development in the digital technology field, including the power of the young people of both countries in the future.”

   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/files/2019/02/j2dg7629.jpg>

   (Photos by Susumu ISHITO.)

New W3C Membership level aimed at organizations with medium range revenues

   14 February 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7562>

   Over the past several years the W3C Business Development team has heard from a number of mid-sized companies that while they are very interested in participating in W3C the Membership Fees were too high for them to justify. That was compounded by several conversations members of the W3C Team had with organizations in our newest vertical – Publishing. Many of the drivers in that vertical are in this category and had said a new level would be attractive for them. Based on this, we ran between Feb 2018 and Feb 2019 an experimental Membership level aimed at public organizations that have revenues in the medium range to see if the new level would, in fact, attract Members.

   <https://www.w3.org/participate/>
   <https://www.w3.org/2018/02/new-Membership-level>

   Our goal was to get eight new Members in that time and we’ve reached that goal! The organizations that have joined are Geotab (Automotive), Macmillan Learning (Publishing), Media Do Holdings (Publishing), New Relic, Inc. (Security), The Paciello Group (upgraded!), Ping Identity (Identity), SportTotal (Media) and W. W. Norton (Publishing). As you can see we have a diverse set of industries represented by these organizations and you’ll see them in various groups around W3C. Based on this success we have made this a permanent level and as organizations apply for Membership they will see this option.

   This Membership Fee is available for existing Members as well if they qualify (it is designed for public organizations that have revenues between $50M and $500M USD, or equivalent in the other currencies of W3C Hosts). If you are interested in this, or have any questions or comments please contact J. Alan Bird, W3C Global Business Development Leader.

   <https://www.w3.org/Consortium/fees>
   <mailto:alan.bird@w3.org>

W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Transforms Module Level 1

   14 February 2019
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/7559>

   The CSS Working Group invites implementations of "CSS Transforms Module Level 1" Candidate Recommendation. CSS transforms allows elements styled with CSS to be transformed in two-dimensional space. This specification is the convergence of the "CSS 2D Transforms" and "SVG transforms" specifications.

   <https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2019/CR-css-transforms-1-20190214/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-2d-transforms-20090320/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVG-Transforms-20090320/>

   "CSS" is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, etc.

   <https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/>

   More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>

Workshops

     * 2019-03-04 ( 4 MAR) – 2019-03-06 ( 6 MAR)
       W3C Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data
       <https://www.w3.org/Data/events/data-ws-2019/>
       Berlin, Germany
       Hosted by Neo4J

W3C Blog

     * W3C Strategic Highlights: Strengthening the Core of the Web (CSS)
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2019/02/w3c-strategic-highlights-strengthening-the-core-of-the-web-css/>
       18 February 2019 by Amy van der Hiel
     * Updated “Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA” Draft for Wide Review
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2019/02/captcha-accessibility-wide-review/>
       14 February 2019 by Janina Sajka
     * W3C Strategic Highlights: Strengthening the Core of the Web (HTML)
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2019/02/w3c-strategic-highlights-strengthening-the-core-of-the-web-html/>
       14 February 2019 by Amy van der Hiel

Upcoming Talks

     * 2019-02-26(26 FEB)
       Online Payment Options
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/event/online-payment-options/>
       MAG Conference
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/venue/mag-conference/>
       Fort Lauderdale

W3C Membership

   Learn more about the benefits of W3C Membership. If you or your organization cannot join W3C, we invite you to support W3C through a contribution.

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   <http://www.w3.org/support/>

New Members

     * DMAI, Inc.

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Received on Monday, 18 February 2019 15:16:34 UTC