- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:04:41 -0700
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Enclosed is a copy of the call for participation for an upcoming W3C Symposium on Distributed Authoring. A couple of comments: - This is a different meeting from the November Technical Working meeting. The symposium is on December 4-5, the technical working meeting is on November 14-15. - The symposium is not a venue for the further development of specifications, or other technical output. This is reserved for the technical working meetings. - The symposium is designed to inform the W3C membership, and the general web community, about the capabilities, issues, and potential involved with distributed authoring. I see there being two tracks of meetings: Track 1: Technical Working Meetings: San Mateo --> Cambridge --> Palo Alto --> ? Track 2: Informational Meetings; Sunnyvale Symposium --> WWW Conference(?) --> (?) The intent of track 1 is to develop technical solutions. The intent of track 2 (informational) is to make sure people understand and are excited about the output of track 1 (technical), when it is completed. I am currently in need of a volunteer from the Document Management community to give a presentation on the document management of a web site, and the implications of distributed authoring on document management (and vice-versa). If you're interested in giving such a talk, please contact me via email: ejw@ics.uci.edu. Also, if you have an idea for another talk which fits the format of this symposium, please contact me -- there may be space for one additional talk. - Jim CALL FOR PARTICIPATION World Wide Web Consortium Symposium "Distributed Authoring: Present, and Future" December 4-5, 1996 Sunnyvale Hilton Inn, Sunnyvale, CA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The past two years have witnessed the development of a new class of distributed authoring tools which allow remote editing followed by a network save. Unlike existing tools which save their work to the local filesystem and ignore how web content is made accessible, distributed authoring systems directly employ the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to put web content on a server. This allows web content to be edited hundreds or thousands of miles away from the server which distributes it, and gives users the ease of pushbutton publishing. Distributed authoring tools have many applications. Internet Service Providers currently sell web page hosting services where a customer, using an easy-to-use WYSIWYG tool on their personal computer, edits their home page which is stored far away on the provider's host system. Within a corporate intranet, employees are starting to use intranet-enabled word processing and spreadsheet tools to save their work directly to a departmental web server. This symposium is an information-rich opportunity to be educated by key technology developers about this exciting new class of web application. Institutions with intranets will discover how distributed authoring tools can help manage their web sites, and will become plugged-in to the dramatic impact of the emerging intranet-enabled applications. Internet Service Providers can learn about existing distributed authoring tools, and how they can earn extra income or provide value-added service to their customers by supporting them. Technology developers can learn about ongoing efforts to develop interoperable distributed authoring and versioning capabilities, and how to get involved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENT The symposium is a two day event, featuring: Presentations and Demonstrations: PRESENT CAPABILITIES: * Netscape on Distributed HTML authoring tools * Microsoft on Intranet-enabled applications, by Ron Fein (Word) and Andrew Short (Excel) * America Online on Web page hosting services * Web server support for distributed authoring WEB SITE MANAGEMENT: * Continuus on Configuration management of a web site, by Martin Cagan * Document management of a web site THE FUTURE: * U.C. Irvine on Interoperability specification work, by Jim Whitehead * W3C/INRIA on Collaborative distributed authoring in Amaya and Alliance, by Vincent Quint and Irene Vatton * U.C. Irvine on Web-based software development, by Peyman Oreizy * GMD FIT on the BSCW shared workspace system For more information about the presentations and demonstrations, please contact Jim Whitehead. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PARTICIPATION Due to space considerations, participation in this informative symposium is limited to 2 people per organization. If additional participation is neccessary, please email to register@w3.org for permission to send extra people. REGISTRATION FEES W3C member organizations may send two participants for free. Non-member organizations need to pay a registration fee of $500 per person. * At the present time, the only method of payment we can accept is a check. * All checks should be drawn on a US Bank made payable to MIT/W3C in the amount of $500 and received by November 22, 1996. o MIT/Laboratory for Computer Science o World Wide Web Consortium o 545 Technology Square o Cambridge, MA 02139 USA o Attention: Susan Hardy REGISTRATION DUE DATE Friday, November 22, 1996, by 5:00 pm EST. Registration Form http://www.w3.org/pub/Conferences/RegistrationDAV.html ***Please register early.*** The maximum capacity for the Symposium is 150 participants. Registration will close whenever the maximum capacity is reached. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VENUE Sunnyvale Hilton Inn, Sunnyvale, CA * Sunnyvale Hilton Inn * 1250 Lakeside Drive * Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA * Reservations: +1-617-738-4808 or 800-445-8667 * Symposium Rate: $125/single, $140/double available for the nights of December 3rd, 4th, and 5th. * Symposium Code: MIT/W3C Distributed Authoring Symposium The San Jose International Airport is 4.5 miles from the hotel with complimentary shuttle service available. The San Francisco International Airport is approximately 25-30 miles north of the hotel. The estimated taxi fare is $45.00. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORS The Symposium on Distributed Authoring: Present, and Future is sponsored by the World Wide Web Consortium and the Irvine Research Unit in Software as a service to their members. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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