W3C Fact Sheet - November 2013

Membership & Staff

• 386 Members as of 29 October 2013 (was 383 in May 2013)
• 6 new Startup Members
• 87 Staff (was 85 in May); Members have access to an FTE snapshot for TPAC 2013 (covering November 2013 through June 2014) and daily FTE updates
• Arrived:
  • Renoir Boulanger (August 2013, DevRel, W3C/MIT)
  • Jinsong Wang (September 2013, UbiWeb, W3C/Beihang)
  • Kenny Zhang (September 2013, WAI, W3C/Beihang)
  • Felix Daub (October 2013, visiting student, W3C/MIT)
  • Xiaoqian Wu (October 2013, Interaction, W3C/Beihang)
• Left:
  • Joe Nicholas (August 2013)
  • Lea Verou (August 2013)
  • Thomas Roessler (September 2013)
• 6 Fellows (same as May 2013), but Chris Mills' Opera fellowship ended, and we welcomed Wu Wei, from RITT

Workshops

Recent

• Open Data on the Web (23-24 April 2013) [report]
• Referencing and Applying WCAG 2.0 in Different Contexts (23 May 2013)
• eBooks and i18n: Richer Internationalization for eBooks (4 June 2013) [report]
• Get Smart: Smart Homes, Cars, Devices and the Web - Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development (22-23 July 2013) [report]
• Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business (7-8 August 2013) [report]
• RDF Validation Workshop - Practical Assurances for Quality RDF Data (10-11 September 2013) [report]
• Publishing and the Open Web Platform (16-17 September 2013) [report]

Under Consideration in 2014

• TV/Broadcasting: February, Geneva
• Linking Geospatial Data, February, London
• Payments, March, Paris
• Security, March, London
• Web of Things, location TBD
• Performance, June, Santa Clara, CA

Groups

New and extended Working and Interest Groups

• Web Performance Working Group
• Digital Publishing Interest Group
• XML Groups:
  • Efficient XML Interchange Working Group
  • XML Core Working Group
  • XML Query Working Group
  • XSLT Working Group (formerly XSL Working Group)
  • XML Processing Model Working Group
• Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group
• Web and TV Interest Group
• Web and Mobile Interest Group
• Web Security Interest Group
• HTML Working Group
• Web Application Security Working Group
• Patent and Standards Interest Group

Closed Working and Interest Groups

• Provenance Working Group
• eGovernment Interest Group
• Web Services Activity:
  • Web Services Coordination Group
  • SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group
  • Web Services Policy Working Group
  • Web Services Resource Access Working Group
• XML Schema

Community Groups

• More than 150 groups
• Core Mob Community Group became Web and Mobile Interest Group
• 3310+ participants (2800+ last May)
• 188 (was 176) Member organizations, 1192 (was 1053) non-Member organizations

Technical Reports

Recommendations

1. Web Storage
2. HTML+RDFa 1.1
3. RDFa Core 1.1 - Second Edition
4. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 - Second Edition
5. Timed Text Markup Language 1 (TTML1) (Second Edition)
6. Touch Events
7. Geolocation API Specification
8. Page Visibility (Second Edition)
9. Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0

Other Types

• 9 Proposed Recommendations
• 4 Proposed Edited Recommendation
• 15 Candidate Recommendations
• 25 Last Call Working Drafts
• 20 Working Drafts (not LC)
• 13 Group Notes

Marketing and Communications

• 1 press release, generally translated into 2-4 languages by the Offices
• 43 talks
• 20 Public Newsletters
• 38 W3C Blog entries
• Social Web: twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+
• 13 new translations, including 3 Candidate Authorized Translations: WCAG 2.0 in Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Estonian.

Liaisons

• OpenStand statement and Montevideo statement for transparency and openness, and for better governance and more inclusiveness.
• Co-signed letter in support of the US Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act).
• PAS: MathML 3 should be our next candidate.
• Active participation as advisor in the European Commission Multistakeholder Platform (EC MSP), with a focus on the EC Rolling Plan for ICT Standardization identifying EU policy priorities.
• New liaisons: Open IPTV Forum (TV), GSMA (Mobile), EPASOrg (Payment), OpenSocial Foundation (Social).

Systems

• Released new Publications system for W3C Recommendations
• Infrastructure improvements, notably server automation and account management
• Auditing and improving security of W3C systems

Online Training

W3DevCampus, W3C's official online training for Web developers.

• NEW! JavaScript for Beginners [11 Nov - 8 Dec 2013]
• HTML5 [ 3 Jun - 14 Jul 2013] [30 Sep - 10 Nov 2013]
• Preparing a global training program: new partnerships to help provide training courses in Japanese, Korean and Spanish

W3C Validator Suite

The W3C Validator Suite is a Software-as-a-Service solution which performs checks on HTML, CSS, and Internationalization (I18n) for an entire public site.

• September 2013: W3C Validator Suite transitioned out of beta
• October 2013: Further to customer feedback, W3C Validator Suite introduced new pricing model based on credits