Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Membership information

1. Membership class.

Affiliate. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid is applying for an Affiliate Membership as a public University located in Spain; it is a not-for-profit organization that depends directly of the Government.

2. Member Organization Info.

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid is located in Madrid, Spain. The Department that takes on responsibility of membership is: Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Ciudad Universitaria, sn, E-28040 Madrid, Spain. Phone: +34 91 336 68 30 Fax: + 34 91 336 73 33

3.Advisory Committee Representative.

Juan Quemada, Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos, ETSI Telecomunicación, Ciudad Universitaria, sn, E-28040 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: quemada@dit.upm.es Phone: +34 91 336 Fax: + 34 91 336 73 33

4.Invoice Contact.

Javier Uceda, Vice-rector for research, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, sn, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.

5. Membership term start date.

2003, January 1st.

6. URL

http://www.dit.upm.es/

7. Member Site Access

Personal password system.

I certify that my institution is in the process of executing the W3C Member Agreement. Between now and the time that this agreement is fully executed, I request access to the W3C web site and mailing lists. I agree that all employees and others affiliated with my institution will use these network resources in compliance with the intellectual property policy found in paragraph 7 of the Member Agreement and will also protect the confidentiality of all communication and information as provided by paragraph 1.1.3 of the Process Document. I will assure that all those who use W3C resources are aware of these conditions.

The W3C Office in Spain

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) was set up in 1971 as an independent entity composed of Engineering Schools, although its history can be traced back to the Royal Academy of Mathematics of Madrid, founded in 1582 by Felipe II, the Engineers Corps for the Army, Sites, Ports and Frontiers, created in 1711 by Felipe V, and The Royal Academy of the Three Noble Arts of San Fernando, founded in 1741.

Naval, Mining, Civil, Forests, Industrial, and Agriculture Engineering Schools were founded through the XVIII and XIX centuries, being settled in well-known places such as El Escorial palace and the Royal site of Aranjuez. Schools devoted to modern technologies, such as the General School for Telegraphy, or the Aeronautics Engineering School and Computer Science Faculty have been created in the XX century.

Nowadays, the UPM is considered an outstanding University in Europe, having more than 40,000 students and 3,500 teachers in 19 Schools and 5 associated institutions. The UPM, in all its centers, drives the technological development in Spain, and plays an important role in European research and academic activities.

Its central location in Spain makes it a key place for the cooperation among the Spanish Universities and companies, as well as a convenient place for travelling. Madrid –where the UPM is located– is only at one hour flight time of all the peninsular cities, holds one of the largest international airports in Europe, has many facilities for hosting tourists and events, and is the region in Spain with the highest number of national and international companies in information technology.

Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación

Telecommunications studies in Spain began in 1913 with the creation of the General School of Telegraphy. The Telecommunications Engineering degree was created in 1920, and in 1957 the School was handed over to the Ministry of Education. It then took its current name “Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación” (ETSIT); it was settled in its current location in Ciudad Universitaria in 1965. The ETSIT is a founder member of the UPM, in charge of teaching information technologies, especially networking, transmission and telematics (telecommunications and informatics, or following other terminology, electrical engineering and computer science), at graduate, post-graduate and doctorate levels.

The size and the activities of the ETSIT have grown considerably in the last few years. It is one of the centres most requested by young students (so the admittance grades are at the highest in Spain) with approximately 300 teachers and 4000 students. More than 200 new engineers finish their studies in the ETSIT every year. They exhibit a solid and thorough education that makes them appreciated professionals in many areas of the Spanish economy.

Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos

The Department of Telematics Systems Engineering (DIT) was created in 1984, joining some former groups in the ETSIT / UPM, and is one of the largest and most significant departments in ETSIT. The DIT deals with telecommunication, telematics and computer science. The staff is now comprised of more than 90 people, 70 of them engineers (MSc) or doctors (PhD), structured into several research groups.

Joining in a single university department both communication networks and computer science (which is called Telematics), has revealed to be very fruitful and enriching for both the university and the Spanish companies related to the Department activities. The European Commission has recognised this fact and proposed a similar organisation for European universities related with Information Technologies.

The DIT provides teaching at undergraduate, post-graduate and master levels to approximately ETSIT students in more than 15 subjects in the graduate studies and doctorate programmes. DIT also organises a postgraduate programme for people from industry, with one Master program for Networks and Systems, and other for Mobile Networks, as well as several Especialization programmes (IT Management, Mobile Internet Engineering, Internet/Intranet Engineering, etc.). The Department produces nearly 40 master theses, 5 doctoral theses and more than 80 contributions in international meetings and magazines each year.

The technical focus of research activities range from the infrastructure layers in communications (broadband network, IPv6, satellite networks, local and metropolitan networks, ATM, high-speed protocols, traffic simulation, networks integration), to the management of networks and services (services trading and brokering, integrated management of networks, systems and services -TMN, SNMP-, cryptography and network security), and including the software engineering of services on networks (protocol engineering, distributed platforms, real-time critical systems, CORBA, software architectures and UML), specific platforms and techniques for Internet based services (Web, Web-services engineering, Java services, EJB, MDA, RDF, Multimedia Internet), and applications such as tele-education, tele-training, multimedia interfaces, tele-presence, CSCW, distributed data bases and data models, complex systems and office theory.

These lines of research are developed, extended and transferred to industry through the active participation in European research projects such as IST, ACTS, TELEMATICS, and ESPRIT (more than 10 active projects); national programmes, such as the Spanish National Plan for R+D (more than 12 active projects), and contracts with Spanish and European companies and public entities, such as ESA, the European Commission, Telefónica, Repsol, RENFE...

The Department has close relation to Spanish technological development. Some productive results in the field of information technology transferred to industry are:

the introduction of electronic mail in Spain (1986),
the first Spanish Internet connection (1988), and Internet provider (1990-1994), and one of the first Web sites in Spain,
the satellite-based remote education programme ETSIT (1994-1996),
the organisation and management of the ACTS summer schools on Advanced Broadband Services and Communications (1993-2003),
broadband and next generation Internet with ISABEL (1993-2003),
active member of IPv6 Forum
the Telefónica chair in UPM for Next Generation Internet (2001-2003),
the organisation and management of Madrid IPv6 Global Summits and IDC conferences, and Global 360 events.

Some arguments towards the hosting of the W3C office in Spain in DIT-UPM are:

The pioneering role of DIT-UPM in Internet, e-mail and WWW technologies.

The experience that DIT-UPM keeps in the research, development and transference of IT technologies.

The leader role of DIT-UPM in the Spanish university as regards Telematics; it is the oldest department, the largest public research department, and the origin of others.

The proactive role in research, DIT-UPM is one of the largest Departments in Spanish university as regards number and size of research projects.

The key position of DIT-UPM in the development and transference of technology that deals with the usage of the Spanish language in the network.The central role of DIT-UPM in the Spanish research by our network of contacts with companies, universities, European Research Centres.

The initiative in issues such as SIP, IPv6, Internet multimedia, e-learning, Semantic Web, Web services and other technical activities currently undergoing by W3C.

The capabilities of DIT-UPM for the generation of mixed activities between university and industry, such as the Postgraduate Programme.

The large experience in cooperation with South America universities (several joint postgraduate and doctorate programmes and many internships).

The availability of funds from other successful activities that could be used in support of the office.

Therefore, the proponent organisation meets the criteria for becoming a member and office, as expressed by W3C:

Vendor Neutrality: UPM is a public-owned University, neutral as regards technology and markets. Being a public institution –and thus its main funds come from Government-, UPM is independent of market pressures. In fact, UPM has strong links to several of the key actors in WWW technology, and it is itself a strong institution in open source development, standards development and application, deployment of the net and technology transfer to other universities and companies.

Contributing W3C Members: UPM was the first institution in Spain to host an IP address, an e-mail account and server, and one of the first in deploy a web server; it can be said that UPM is the pioneer of Internet in Spain. Besides, UPM is a regular contributor to standards in this area, and as seen, an early adopter of XML, HTML, Web Services and other specifications emitted by W3C.

Established Network of Contacts: UPM holds a strong network of contacts in the institutional, academic, industrial arenas, due to its long tradition in research, development and management of Internet. The most important companies in IT sector hire our students as engineers, and most of them also maintain contracts for research and development. The Master programmes link UPM with the technical development and research staff of the largest IT companies in Spain. UPM is the main academic technology driver in Spain as regards IT, and one of the first in Europe (UPM has been the first public contractor of the European Commission in the V Program Framework). Even more, the usage of Spanish as mother tongue, and the tradition of cooperation in South America have expanded our context of work to those countries.

Objectives and context of the W3C office in SpainThe objectives of the office would be the same as the W3C, and the rest of the network of W3C offices in the world. Additionally, some objectives are specific of the W3C Spanish office due to its location:

The dissemination of the activities and standards of W3C to Spain and South America, to the companies that are currently using them, those that could use them in the future, the universities, and the public at large.

The promotion of Spanish as a technical language in the Web. The office will translate the specifications, will disseminate the work and will accept collaboration with companies and universities from South America. As well, will support the internationalization activities.

The support of other official languages in Spain (catalan, euskara, galizian) in the Web, by supporting technical translations.

Coordination and growing of the Spanish and South America communities, by contacting public and private partners, developers and users, commercials and from open source, and trying to create a shared community.

Representation of the Spanish and South America community of WWW developers and users in the international arena, such as the W3C consortium.

The support of advanced research and development of the technical elements provided by the W3C, thus, the office will serve as the meeting point for the search of cooperation opportunities in this domain.

FIGURE 1The context of the work of the W3C office is as follows:

W3C: the W3C office depends of the W3C Offices network for its operation. This office aims to cover the mandate given by W3C to their offices for widespread dissemination of W3C activities and standards, and for the search of new affiliates.

Institutions: the W3C office activities are carried out by staff from UPM, which is the host. Being an actor of technology leverage in the region, the office must cooperate with public institutions in order to get funds and to foster the application of standards. The identified actors in this category are: UPM, DIT-UPM, ETSIT-UPM, Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (CAM), autonomic governments, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (MCYT), Organización Nacional de Ciegos de España (ONCE).

WWW related forums: there are WWW related forums that try to conduct the otherwise dispersed technical work done around WWW technologies. The office must cooperate with them in order to facilitate the knowledge of W3C advances, as well as for the coordination of the groups and promotion of their work to the relevant W3C initiative.

Industries: industrial companies are at the core of the W3C members, as technology providers and users of the W3C standards. The office must cooperate with local industries in order to make W3C standards knowledgeable and to foster the affiliation of industries to this forum. Some of the key industries identified as potential actors are: Telefónica, Amena, Retevisión as telecommunication operators. PRISA and El Mundo as content providers. INDRA and Grupo Informática El Corte Inglés as technology providers, INDRA as a large Internet services company and ANIEL as the telecommunication industries association.

Academia: other universities in Spain and South America have shown their interest in the activities of W3C and they will cooperate actively with the office. Some universities are: Universidad de Murcia, Universidad de Vigo, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad del País Vasco. Universidad de Valencia. Universidad Pompeu Fabra.

Support network or SIG: a first level of cooperation will be the creation of a network of interest on W3C activities, composed by several universities that already have activities in these technologies, and some companies that are close their application. MCYT will support this network, providing grants for the coordination of activities and travelling. The initial group will be composed by the mentioned universities and likely the companies

Structure of the officeFIGURE 2Functions:

Director: holds the representation functions and financial control of the office. He is also the member of the Advisory Committee, is a member of DIT-UPM and works part-time for the office.

Technical manager: supports the work of the director, acting as the deputy director if needed. He is aware of the technical efforts performed in W3C, and coordinates the technical initiatives performed by the office, proposes the set of directors of area. He is a part-time staff.

Director of area: coordinates and promotes the development and work for a certain technical area, such as translations, web site support, and research catalogue. Is a member of UPM or the supporting network and works part-time.

Dissemination: part time staff whose role is to coordinate the dissemination activities, such as press releases, organisation of workshops.

Secretary: part time staff providing the supporting functions, such as accounting, contacts management, basic communications, et cetera.

Boards:

Strategy board: supports the work of the Director, is composed by five senior members of DIT-UPM and controls his activities. This board is in charge of defining the strategy of the office, providing high-level contacts and seek for financial support. This board meets twice a year, and under request of any of its members, including the Director.
Technical board: supports the work of the Technical Manager, is composed by six members of the support network, including DIT-UPM staff, and controls the work of directors of area. The board meets four times a year, and under request of the Director or the Technical manager.

Biographies

Initial office staff:

Director: Juan Quemada.

Address: Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos, ETSI Telecomunicación, Ciudad Universitaria sn, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.

E-mail: quemada@dit.upm.es

Phone: +34913367331

Fax: +34913367333

CV: Director of Telefonica Chair in UPM for Internet New Generation. Editor of “Computer Networks and ISDN Systems”. Member of IFIP TC 6.1, IEEE, ATI, COIT, AEIT.

Technical manager: Juan C. Dueñas.

Address: Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos, ETSI Telecomunicación, Ciudad Universitaria sn, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.

E-mail: jcduenas@dit.upm.es

Phone: +34913366831

Fax: +34913367333

CV: Member of the program committee of the Postgraduate programme in ETSIT-UPM. Technical leader of EUREKA/ITEA and IST projects. Member of IEEE, ATI, COIT.

Secretary: Ivana D’Alessandro.

Address: Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas Telemáticos, ETSI Telecomunicación, Ciudad Universitaria sn, E-28040 Madrid, Spain.

E-mail: ivana@dit.upm.es

Phone: +34913367332

Fax: +34913367333

W3C Office plan of activities

The main objectives of the office during its first three years must be the establishment of the office, and growing of the community towards the implication of several new members in W3C activities.

Internal activities

The internal activities aim at the consecution of a stable and performing office, able to start their public activities:

Implementation of the office organisation:
- Selection of staff.
- Identification of the boards.
- Identification of the technical areas of interest.
Infrastructure management:
- Installation of the office Web server.
- Organisation of groups of translation and translation of main pages and specifications.
- Identification of research projects related to W3C in the DIT-UPM and UPM.
Contacts with institutions:
- DIT-UPM seeking its active implication, and the staff, facilities, current expenditures and integration to technical activities of the department. The department will also give support for courses in the postgraduate programme organised by the office staff. DIT-UPM would recover the investment by the participation in W3C activities.
- ETSIT-UPM would also provide facilities, and provides an extended framework for the technical activities by interchange of information with other research groups in the ETSIT; it is likely that this happens (and maybe the covering of staff costs) in the context of the ETSIT research institute. It would recover the investment by participation of W3C activities, by using the office as an integration activity for ETSIT groups, and in public image.
- UPM will provide the administrative and legal coverage, as well as the payment of the affiliate fees. This requires the support of key people. UPM would recover the investment in public image, and using the office also as an integration activity for groups in ETSIT, EUITT, FI, ETSII.

Activities to W3C

Firstly, the office will follow the indications from W3C about collaboration with other offices:

Semester meetings.
Two-weeks telephone conferences.
Participation in Advisory Committee meetings.
Yearly reports.
Travel for understanding of other offices organisation and activities.

Additionally, the Spain office will host several events:

workshop, within the first year, XML congress.
W3C conference, within the third first years.
AC meeting, within the third first years.

Academic-related activities

Activities with other universities in Spain and South America will pursue the creation and maintenance of the support network, and the development of a catalogue of W3C research related activities, and a list of contact persons with the information about the technical work they are developing.

An initial listing of universities with potential interest are (some of them have already been contacted): Universidad de Murcia, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Universidad de Vigo, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad de Zaragoza, Universidad del País Vasco. Universidad de Valencia.

As soon as the operational support is available, all these universities will be invited to collaborate and support the activities; a forum will be specifically devoted to them. Quarterly meetings in order to explain recent W3C developments will take place; we expect to receive support for this from MCYT.

Industry-related activities

These activities take as targets:

that companies are aware of W3C activities,
that some companies are able to identify their own activities in relation with W3C,
that some companies get specific support from the office,
that some companies consider to join W3C.

This last objective does not seem very realistic nowadays; depending on the economic situation this may evolve to get absolutely impossible, or to discover a small but very valuable set of companies that will to contribute to W3C.

Economic situation is out of our scope, but the office should ease the technical support and specialised training for these candidate companies. Taxes reductions for the affiliate fees will be considered. A listing of interested companies will be created (and the first entries will be those companies that once were affiliates to W3C).

Some companies that are or were affiliates to W3C: Telefónica, newKnow, FICYT, UV. Other companies that would participate are ECI, INDRA, ANIEL, MCYT, ATI.

At this moment, some restrictions can be devised to the search of potential members, in order to make more effective this search:

large companies are the primary focus, due to the amount of membership fees;
non-multinational or multinational with the headquarters in Spain, otherwise the affiliation is made by the core –out of the country-;
focused on Internet related business, as developer, integrator or heavy consumers (and with strong interest in reinforcing an open market);
with interests in research and development, otherwise the potential member will not get any return of its investment (since innovation is not actively pursued by the company).

With these conditions in mind (and they seem quite sensible and pragmatic), the set of potential industrial members is small. The office will focus its activities towards these potential members.

Specific activities for increasing the general industrial awareness of W3C activities are:

Teaching of postgraduate courses on W3C technology for industry professionals.
Personal conversations with officials of companies which might be interested in W3C results.
Proposal of a new research project in the national or European context for specific technical aspects of application of W3C specifications.
Newsletter sent to companies and universities about recent W3C achievements.

Institutions-related activities

Institutions play a two-fold role with respect to the office:

They represent communities that also have interests in the W3C.
They may be interested in the promotion of W3C results.

Basically we will request grants and contacts from the following government institutions: MCYT, DGI, CDTI, CAM.

And we will collaborate with other institutions such as: RAE, ANIEL, Autonomic authorities (technology innovation offices), ONCE.

Technical activities

The office will promote the participation of Spanish universities, companies and individuals in the W3C technical activities. Three technical activities will be undertaken by the office staff:

Translations: translations of the major W3C specifications will be made to Spanish, as well as subsets of them to Catalan, Galizian and Euskara. The support of the office network will be required. This activity will provide hints for supporting the internationalisation activities. The support of the DIT-UPM students will also be very important for this activity.
Web site: the web site of W3C will be translated to Spanish and other languages. Additional services for developers communities –such as the deployment of open source development platforms- will be hosted in the Spanish web site. The provision of open source tools for publication and management of the Web will be a stable part of the site.
Research catalogue: the persons, groups, projects and activities performed in Spain or South America related to the domain of W3C specifications and working groups will be identified and recorded –under the legal conditions for privacy preservation-, in order to create a repository able to be queried by interested companies and individuals.

Activities for the public at large

General press (periodicals and magazines, El País, El Mundo, ABC) will be the target of press releases. For specialized press (technology sections in newspapers, technical magazines, professional newsletters, CiberPaís), articles about specific aspects of W3C work are envisaged. The participation of the office staff in open divulgate activities such as “The week of science” (promoted by CAM), or technical seminars organised by the Museum of Sciences will be taken into account. An agreement with some popular technical magazines (PC Actual, PC Today) in order to include a CDROM with distributions of open source programs supported by W3C will be pursued, provided it will return incomings to the office.

Periodic reports of news from W3C are also a valuable material that will be sent to Professional IT Associations (COIT, AEIT, ATI), or provided for free to their magazines (Novática, COIT, revista de ANIEL) or members.

All this information and press releases will also be published in the W3C web site, as well as an on-line newsletter ready under free subscription. We expect to get a list of email of interested people.

Finantial plan

Incomes

The activities for the public at large are dissemination tasks. Their aims are to spread the knowledge about WWW usage, development and standardization; and specifically those actions towards internationalization and support of Spanish in the Web. General press (periodicals and magazines, El País, El Mundo, ABC) will be the target of press releases. For specialized press (technology sections in newspapers, technical magazines, professional newsletters, CiberPaís), articles about specific aspects of W3C work are envisaged. The participation of the office staff in open divulgate activities such as “The week of science” (promoted by CAM), or technical seminars organised by the Museum of Sciences will be taken into account. An agreement with some popular technical magazines (PC Actual, PC Today) in order to include a CDROM with distributions of open source programs supported by W3C will be pursued, provided it will return incomings to the office. Periodic reports of news from W3C are also a valuable material that will be sent to Professional IT Associations (COIT, AEIT, ATI), or provided for free to their magazines (Novática, COIT, revista de ANIEL) or members. All this information and press releases will also be published in the W3C web site, as well as an on-line newsletter ready under free subscription. We expect to get a list of email of interested people.

The main external sources of incomes could be:

External fixed income: the grant paid by W3C to the offices in the first two years, plus the payment of one travel to the coordination meeting (once a year).
External variable income: public research programs in Spain, specially the stable grants from Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, as a special action, possibly linked to the creation of an office support network including several universities and some companies.
External variable income: public research programs in Europe, especially from the European Commission. It is our hope that W3C European offices could eventually take part of the European Research Area.
External variable income: participation of the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid in the office.
External variable income: the 20% of the grants paid by the Spanish affiliates. Although this would be the most stable and direct source of incomes, it is unlikely that there will be many partners in the near future.

The internal sources of incomes will be:

Internal fixed income: the affiliate fees, which will be made by UPM directly.
Internal fixed income: the support to current expenditures (basic facilities such as light, telephone, water, heat), that will be made by DIT-UPM.
Internal fixed income: the network and servers support that will be provided by DIT-UPM and their connections to the national academic networks.
Internal fixed income: contribution of DIT-UPM staff as supporting personnel.
Internal variable income: incomes from the activities performed by the office, such as workshops, selling publications, consulting to companies, ad-hoc translations, et cetera.
Internal variable income: the participation in the Postgraduate program of the members of the office.

The following table includes the expected incomes for the first two years. The third year the W3C grants disappears, as well as the UPM fee. The first part of the table corresponds to the fixed incomes, and the rest to variable incomes. The reader may observe that most of the amounts are not known at this moment (marked as 0), and those already given are rough estimations.


Kind of income	Income	Origin	Value (Euro)	Value ($)
External fixed	Grant	W3C	10000	10000
External fixed	One travel	W3C	1800	1800
Internal fixed	Member fee	UPM	1000	1000
Internal fixed	Infrastructure	DIT-UPM	0	0
Internal fixed	Network	UPM	0	0
Internal fixed	Support staff	DIT-UPM	0	0
External variable	Grant	MCYT	0	0
External variable	RD project	EU	0	0
External variable	Grant	CAM	12000	12000
External variable	20% fees	W3C	0	0
Internal variable	Postgraduate	UPM	0	0
Internal variable	Activities	UPM	0	0
Total			24800	24800

Expenditures

As for the expenditures of the office, there are also fixed and variable ones. No differences will be done between internal and external expenditures.

The foreseen external expenditures are:

Fixed expenditure: current expenditures (basic facilities such as light, telephone, water, heat).
Fixed expenditure: the network and servers support and their connections to the national academic networks.
Fixed expenditure: supporting personnel, including technical support for installation and operation of Web server.
Fixed expenditure: servers and office equipment, and possibly a small number of computers for eventual development efforts.
Fixed expenditure: small operative costs (mainly office material).
Fixed expenditure: W3C membership fee.
Fixed expenditure: two annual travels a year for coordination activities.
Fixed expenditure: for the right operation of the office, it is required to have a small team of coordination people. Initially two part-time people (these may be DIT-UPM staff), and one part-time secretary.
Variable expenditure: if the office activities grow enough, one additional full time person, with high university degree in IT, and some experience in research and W3C issues, should improve the execution of the office activities.
Variable expenditure: each of the activities performed by the office will impose costs.


Kind	Expenditure	Receiver	Value (Euro)	Value ($)
Fixed expenditure	Current		10000	10000
Fixed expenditure	Network	UPM	0	0
Fixed expenditure	Support staff	DIT-UPM	1000	1000
Fixed expenditure	Equipment		12000	12000
Fixed expenditure	Small		2000	2000
Fixed expenditure	Fees	W3C	1000	1000
Fixed expenditure	Travel		900	900
Fixed expenditure	Part time staff	DIT-UPM	0	0
Variable expenditure	Full time staff		0	0
Variable expenditure	Activities		0	0
Total			26900	26900

Finantial prospect

The tables shown with these figures show a deficit in 2100 Euros. The examination of the given tables shows that some expenditures are covered directly by fixed incomes. As the process of set up the office progresses, the estimations on incomes and expenditures will be more accurate; we expect to cover the expected deficit within the first year.

The worst situation for the office will appear in the third and fourth year, which it will still be not mature enough for survival, but no grants are coming. For that time, we expect to have obtained one or two W3C partners in Spain, to have joined a national or European research project, or to have given a postgraduate course that allows us to cover the expenditures; when this happens the office will contract a full-time technical person.

UPM the host organisation will take responsibility of physical, financial, organizational and staff resources needed, and of any lack of funds produced by the normal operation of the office. In any case, the long-term survival of the office is aimed, and its operation under autonomous conditions.

Conclusions

The main conclusions of this document are:

There is a set of companies and universities that either develop Web-based systems or use them, but this set is not yet organised.
There is an opportunity to create the W3C office, hosted by UPM, whose objectives would be to organise the local community, to foster the usage of standards, and to promote the usage of Spanish language in the Web.
The W3C office would offer a level of services and representation closer to those countries in West Europe (Italia, Grecia), otherwise the office would not cover the quality threshold for their activities.
It will be difficult to find a strong financial source other than public grants: it will be impossible to the same number of W3C members as in Germany or UK.
Despite the difficulties, there is a strong will to support the office in UPM.