News Release: W3C Welcomes Developer Community at WWW2009 in Madrid

W3C Welcomes Developer Community at WWW2009 in Madrid

Mobile Widgets And Social Web Are Topics of W3C Track's "One Camp A Day"

http://www.w3.org/ -- 7 April 2009 -- The World Wide Web Consortium 
(W3C) invites the WWW2009 conference participants as well as the local 
Spanish developer community to participate in the new W3C track format. 
For the first time, on 23 and 24 April, W3C will organize two camps for 
developers to discuss current hot topics in Web development and write 
code. The Mobile Widgets camp and the Social Web camp will foster 
discussion and promote results in the form of working mobile widgets and 
semantic/social Web tools, respectively.

W3C invites discussion topic suggestions via the track wikis, and more 
discussion on a twitter feed (#w3ctrack). A special discounted 
registration fee to attend the W3C track is available (see the online 
registration instructions on the W3C track page).

In addition to the W3C Track, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor 
of the Web, will give a keynote titled "Twenty Years: Looking Forward, 
Looking Back" on Wednesday, 22 April, followed by a press conference.

All events will take place at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos Campo 
de las Naciones, in Madrid, Spain.

Notes for editors:
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Web Ressources:
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This press release:
   - in English: http://www.w3.org/2009/04/w3ctrack-pressrelease.html.en
   - in French: http://www.w3.org/2009/04/w3ctrack-pressrelease.html.fr
   - in other translations:
     http://www.w3.org/Press/Overview.html#x2009-w3ctrack

The W3C track@WWW09 page:
     http://www.w3.org/2009/04/w3c-track.html

Press Conference with Sir Tim Berners-Lee:
     http://www.w3.org/2009/04/w3c-track.html#Press

Press Contacts:
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Americas, Australia -- Ian Jacobs, <ij@w3.org>, +1.718.260.9447 or 
+1.617.253.2613
Europe, Africa and the Middle East -- Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, 
+33 6 76 86 33 41

About the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C]
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Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to 
develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the 
creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term 
growth for the Web. Over 400 organizations are Members of the 
Consortium. W3C is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and 
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the USA, the European 
Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) 
headquartered in France and Keio University in Japan, and has additional 
Offices worldwide. For more information see http://www.w3.org/

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Received on Tuesday, 7 April 2009 16:29:39 UTC