- From: Janet Daly <janet@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:59:38 -0400
- To: w3c-news@w3.org
- CC: w3c-australia@w3.org
World Wide Web Consortium Australian Office to Host W3C Day
Meet Technologists from the birthplace of XML, XHTML and Web
Accessibility
For more information, please refer to the contact in your region.
Contact America --
Janet Daly, <janet@w3.org>, +1.617.253.5884 or +1.617.253.2613
Contact Asia --
Saeko Takeuchi <saeko@w3.org>, +81.466.49.1170
Contact Australia --
Liz Armstrong, <w3c-australia@w3.org>+61.7.3365.4310
Contact Europe --
Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, +33.492.38.75.94
Web Resources:
This news release
http://www.w3.org/2001/04/w3cday
W3C in Seven Points
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Points/
The W3C Australian Office
http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/
http://www.w3.org/ -- 26 April 2001 - The World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) is co-sponsoring W3C Day on 7 May 2001 in Sydney, Australia.
The W3C Australian Office, based at the Australian government's
Cooperative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems
Technology (DSTC), is coordinating a full day of presentations on
the latest W3C achievements in graphics, presentation, XML, the
Semantic Web, and accessibility. Attendees will see how W3C's over
510 members work together to create the technologies that serve
as standards for the World Wide Web.
Presenters include:
Dr. Bert Bos, W3C Style Activity Lead, presenting on
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Dr. Max Froumentin of W3C presenting on XSL
Dr. Ivan Herman, Head of W3C Offices, with an overview of W3C
Dean Jackson, W3C Research Fellow from CSIRO, presenting on
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Dr Sev Ozdowski, OAM, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission, presenting on the creation of Accessible Web
sites
Dr. Hoylen Sue of the W3C/DSTC speaking on XML
Charles McCathieNevile of W3C presenting on the Semantic
Web and Accessibility
Janet Daly, W3C Head of Communications, will serve as Chair for the
day's events.
W3C Day is sponsored by W3C, the National Library of Australia, and
Microsoft. The event is part of DSTC's Evolve 2001 Conference. For more
information on attending W3C Day, please contact Dr. Liz Armstrong, the
Head of the W3C Australian Office, at +61.7.3365.4310.
Contact America --
Janet Daly, <janet@w3.org>, +1.617.253.5884 or +1.617.253.2613
Contact Asia --
Saeko Takeuchi <saeko@w3.org>, +81.466.49.1170
Contact Australia --
Liz Armstrong, <w3c-australia@w3.org>+61.7.3365.4310
Contact Europe --
Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, +33.492.38.75.94
About the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C]
The W3C was created to lead the Web to its full potential by developing
common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its
interoperability. It is an international industry consortium jointly
run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA,
the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
(INRIA) in France and Keio University in Japan. Services provided by
the Consortium include: a repository of information about the World
Wide Web for developers and users, and various prototype and sample
applications to demonstrate use of new technology. To date, over 510
organizations are Members of the Consortium. For more
information see http://www.w3.org/
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