W3C Weekly News - 3 September 2003

                             W3C Weekly News

                       26 August - 3 September 2003

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W3C Holds Ad Hoc Meeting on Recent Court Decision, Launches Public
Discussion List

   W3C invited its Members as well as other key commercial and open
   source software interests to attend an ad hoc meeting hosted by
   Macromedia on Tuesday 19 August in San Francisco, CA, USA.
   Participants discussed Eolas v. Microsoft and US Patent 5,838,906.
   W3C has created the public-web-plugins@w3.org archived public mailing
   list for discussion. Please refer to the report from Steven R Bratt,
   W3C Chief Operating Officer.

    http://www.w3.org/2003/08/patent

Device Independence Working Group Notes Published

   The Device Independence Working Group completed work on two Working
   Drafts and has published them as W3C Working Group Notes. "Device
   Independence Principles" describes Web access "anytime and anyhow"
   from user, authoring and delivery perspectives. "Authoring Challenges
   for Device Independence" are considerations and implications for
   building universally accessible Web content and applications. Visit
   the W3C Device Independence home page.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-di-princ-20030901/
    http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/NOTE-acdi-20030901/
    http://www.w3.org/2001/di/

Future of Libwww Survey

   W3C has stopped work on Libwww and invites the libwww user community
   to participate in a Future of Libwww Survey that will help to
   determine its future. Libwww is a free, highly modular client side
   Web API written in C for Unix and Windows. A W3C account is required
   to complete the survey. Read about W3C open source/free software.

    http://www.w3.org/Library/Survey2.html
    http://www.w3.org/Status

W3C Talks in September

   * Martin Duerst, Richard Ishida and Chris Lilley present at the
     24th Internationalization & Unicode Conference in Atlanta, GA,
     USA on 3-5 September.
   * James Hendler, W3C Web Ontology Working Group co-Chair, gives
     a talk at the Research Councils UK (RCUK) e-Science All Hands
     Meeting in Nottingham, UK on 4 September.
   * Charles McCathieNevile speaks at the National Gallery Archives
     on 5 September and at LaTrobe University on 8 September, both
     in Melbourne, Australia.
   * Eric Miller gives a keynote at the Semantic Technologies for
     eGovernment conference in Washington, DC, USA on 8 September.
   * Matt May presents a tutorial at the Seybold-WOW Web Design and
     Development Conference in San Francisco, CA, USA on 9 September.
   * Philippe Le Hegaret participates in a panel at Integrate 2003
     in Boston, MA, USA on 10 September.
   * Tim Berners-Lee gives keynotes at the "IT - The Universal
     Enabler" conference on 17 September, the Royal Society on
     22 September, and the World Creative Forum on 23 September,
     all in London, UK.
   * Bert Bos speaks at W3C Mitgliedertreffen in Erfurt, Germany
     on 23 September.

   Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as an RSS
   channel and in iCalendar format.

    http://www.w3.org/Promotion/Appearances/

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Received on Wednesday, 3 September 2003 18:27:02 UTC