Technical Plenary Day
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Please note: the Technical Plenary day will be audio recorded.
5 -10 November 2007, Hyatt Regency
Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
(President's Ballroom, Ground Floor)
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The Wednesday of the Technical Plenary Week offers a unique opportunity for our broad W3C Community (Working, Interest and Coordination Groups; Advisory Committee Representatives; Advisory Board; Technical Architecture Group; and Team) who have registered to gather in one room and discuss technical topics of broad interest to the attendees, and of significant importance to past, present and future of the World Wide Web Consortium. Discussion during this Technical Plenary day will not be considered Member confidential. Slides, audio recording, and transcript will be publicly accessible.
If you have IRC, you are welcome to join channel #tp on irc.w3.org:6665 to help record the meeting.
NOTE: Audio recording is encoded using Ogg Vorbis. See Vorbis.com to learn how to play the Ogg Vorbis files.
Agenda
08:45 to 09:00 |
Session
1: Welcome [QA blog entry] [Audio recording] [Transcript] Description: Overview of the day. [slides] Meeting Chair: Steve Bratt (W3C Chief Executive Officer) |
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09:00 to 10:00 |
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2: View from the Outside: Real World Perspectives on
the W3C [QA blog entry] [Audio recording] [Transcript] Description: Whether you're a Web designer, developer, usability specialist or work in any one of the myriad jobs that go into making great Web sites, it's clear that the W3C has significant influence on how you work. Whether it's via the specifications that go into the software and agents that you use daily, or as the cornerstone of educational material, the W3C is involved somewhere in the process. But it's clear that there's been a gap between the real-world and the internal workings of the W3C. As Working Groups such as HTML 5 and CSS become more open, so must our conversations open. In this session, the W3C will have the opportunity to listen to real-world perspectives, respond to criticisms and praise and keep alive the ongoing commitment to authentic conversation and active community participation. Moderator: Molly E. Holzschlag (Web Standards and Practices Education and Outreach, Molly.Com, Inc.) [slides] Presenters and Topics:
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10:00 to 10:30 |
Break |
10:30 to 11:30 |
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3: Future Formats: HTML5 and
XHTML2
[QA blog entry] [Audio recording] [Transcript] Description: Regardless if evolution or revolution, the Web has become a highly interactive space of applications and interfaces. What are the challenges and opportunities to address the key technical issues? Moderator: Al Gilman (Invited Expert, Chair of PFWG) Presenters and Topics:
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11:30 to 12:00 |
Session 4: Lightning
Talks [Audio recording] [Transcript] Description: Presenters will provide strictly-monitored 3-minute talks on topics that range from interesting, informative, controversial or all of the above. The audience will have the opportunity to engage in a lightning question and answer period following each presentation. Moderator: Rotan Hanrahan (MobileAware) Presenters and Topics:
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12:00 to 13:30 |
Lunch (Riverside Pavillion (ground floor) and Charles View Ballroom (16th floor)) Birds-of-a-Feather Tables. Participants may add to provided sign-up sheets any topic they like for discussion at each lunch table, and all are welcome to sign-up to sit at a particular table where a discussion of interest (an, hopefully, an interesting discussion) is proposed to take place. |
13:30 to 14:30 |
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5: Openness of W3C Working Groups
[QA blog entry] [Audio recording] [Transcript] Description: What should it mean to "open" a Working Group's participation to the public both from a daily work perspective and a Process point of view? What are the changes, the dangers, the positive aspects and the limits? Moderator: Daniel Glazman (Disruptive Innovations) Presenters and Topics:
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14:30 to 15:15 |
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6: URI-Based Extensibility: Benefits, Deviations,
Lessons-Learned [QA blog entry] [Audio recording] [Transcript] Description: Using URIs (as opposed to plain strings) either directly or as a means of scoping (eg. namespaces, profiles) grounds extensions in URI space. This enables decentralized extensibility and it enable 'follow-your-nose' style discovery of information about extensions. Over time the W3C Technical Architecture Group has come across several example of extensions that are not grounded in URI space and the difficulties that causes. Of particular recent interest are the possible deprecation of extensibility attributes from HTML5, a proposal to add a form of namespaces to HTML5, and the use of unqualified/scoped class attribute strings as semantic tags in microformat definitions. Moderator: David Orchard (BEA) [slides in PDF] Presenters and Topics:
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15:15 to 15:45 |
Break |
15:45 to 16:15 |
Session 7: Lightning
Talks [Audio recording] [Transcript] Description: Presenters will provide strictly-monitored 3-minute talks on topics that range from interesting, informative, controversial or all of the above. The audience will have the opportunity to engage in a lightning question and answer period following each presentation. Moderator: Rotan Hanrahan (MobileAware) Presenters and Topics:
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16:15 to 17:15 |
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8: Making Video a First-Class Citizen of the
Web [QA blog entry] [Audio recording] [Transcript] Description: The availability of video content is increasing rapidly over the Web and consumer demand will explode in the upcoming years. What will be the impact of video on tomorrow's Web?. Moderator: Philippe Le Hegaret (W3C) [slides] Presenters and Topics: |
17:15 to 18:00 |
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9: Discussion with the Director, Tim
Berners-Lee [QA blog entry] [Audio recording] [Transcript] Description: "Cracks and Mortar": The Web works like a large, complex building, with many interlocking parts. The specifications fit together to provide a firm foundation for new developments. Cracks in the foundation can be a sign of failure, or can be deliberately left for expansion. We discuss some examples. [slides] Moderator: T.V. Raman (Google)
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18:00 to 18:15 |
Wrap-Up and Adjourn |
An evening reception will close the day and start at 19:00 (7pm) in the Charles View Ballroom (16th floor of the hotel).
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Many thanks to the Program Committee:
- Jim Allan (Invited Expert, TSVBI) User Agent Accessibility Guidelines WG
- Dan Appelquist (Vodafone) Compound Document Formats WG, Mobile Web Initiative Device Description WG, Mobile Web Best Practices WG, Hypertext CG, Web Application Formats WG
- Bob Freund (Hitachi) Web Services Addressing WG, Web Services Coordination Group
- Daniel Glazman (Disruptive Innovations) Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) WG, HTML WG
- Rotan Hanrahan (Mobileaware) Chair of MWI Device Description WG, MWI Steering Council, Ubiquitous Web Applications WG, Hypertext CG
- Molly Holzschlag (Web Standards and Practices Education and Outreach, Molly.Com, Inc.)
- Ashok Malhotra (Oracle) Web Services Policy WG
- David Orchard (BEA) Technical Architecture Group, Web Services WG, Web Services Description WG, Web Services Policy WG, XML Protocol WG, XML Schema WG
- T.V. Raman (Google) Technical Architecture Group
- Shadi Abou-Zahra (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative
- Susan Lesch (W3C) Communications Team
- Steve Bratt (W3C) Chief Executive Officer, Technical Plenary Day Program Committee Chair