September 2009

• 2009 16 Sep

  W3C World Offices: The First 10 Years and the Future

  by Klaus Birkenbihl , in cooperation with the Greece Office

  10th anniversary of the W3C Greece Office

  Iraklion, Greece

  (see abstract)

  Abstract:

  The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) claims to "lead the Web to its full potential". The talk illustrates by whom and how it is done. One part of the concept are the W3C Offices. The first W3C Offices were part of a project that was initiated by W3C with support from the EU in 1997. Offices were established to improve the regional presence of W3C and to overcome language barriers. The first 4 Offices were in UK, Netherlands, Germany and Greece. It will be outlined why the Offices program turned out to be a success and what are the challenges and chances for the future.

• 2009 16 Sep

  W3C in a Changing World

  by Klaus Birkenbihl , in cooperation with the Greece Office

  10th anniversary of the W3C Greece Office

  Iraklion, Greece

  (see abstract)

  Abstract:

  W3C was founded to lead the Web to its full potential. It started with three technologies that made the Web a huge success: HTTP, HTML and URI. Meanwhile 1500+ participants work in 60+ working groups on different aspects of web technologies. Beside the fact that the power of computers and networks has been increased several 1000 times web technologies have empowered people to communicate, exchange ideas, form communities much easier than ever before. Instead of praising W3C for all the wonderful things it did (what it would deserve) this talk will give some examples on how W3C interacts with the outside world. Topics will be from volunteer translators, evangelists to competing efforts in web standards.