W3C Fact Sheet - May 2015

This public report has been prepared for the May 2015 Advisory Committee Meeting. Some links may be visible only to the W3C Members. It accompanies the W3C Strategic Highlights - May 2015. See the previous fact sheet.

Membership, Staff

378 Members as of 28 April 2015 (was 406 in October 2014)
- Includes 15 new Startup Members
- Includes 2 Introductory Industry Members
45.87 FTE from Member dues, 64.73 total. 80 staff are full-time or part-time (was 84 in October 2014); Members have access to daily FTE updates.
- Staff movement:
  - Stephane Boyera left (February 2015, UbiWeb)
  - Ian Jacobs moved to half-time (March 2015, T&S)
- New Fellows:
  - Nishanth Harish Babu (Internet Academy)
  - Keiji Takeda (Keio University)
- Fellows left:
  - Hiroki Yamada (Internet Academy)

Eighth MultilingualWeb Workshop: Data, content and services for the Multilingual Web, Riga (Latvia), 29 April 2015

Launched new Community and Business Group site in February 2015.
205 groups (was 180 in October 2014; we closed some small groups). New groups:
- Wearable Web
- Seven groups under the Big Data Europe Project
- Math Protocol Handler
- 5 BigDataEurope Community Groups
- Accessible Online Learning
- Decentralized Sharing
- Federated Infrastructures
- Cryptoledgers
- Schema.org
- Web Background Sync
- HTML5 Korean
- HTML5 Japanese
- Web NFC
- Extensible Data Model Declaration Language for Education
- Exposing IEEE LOM metadata as Linked Data
- Internet Protocol Identity
- Organisation Profile Documents
- Multi-device Timing
- Trust & Permissions
- HTML Tidy Advocacy
- Data Visualization
- Benchmarking for the Web
- Colour blindness accessibility
- Linked Data Query Language
- Spec Annotation
More than 5000 participants (was approximately 4500 in October 2014)
1670 non-Member organizations (was 1506 in October 2014)
Transitions:
- HTML5 Korean and HTML5 Japanese were previously Interest Groups
- NFC work moved to a Community Group when we closed the NFC Working Group
- The TV Control API Community Group has started working on a draft API following analysis of other existing TV APIs. The hope is for this group to follow a similar path to the Second Screen Presentation Working Group by passing the draft API to a new or existing Working Group to become a standard. A possible timeline for this will become clearer once the draft has been started.

186 Technical Reports were published from 18 October 2014 to 28 April 2015.

W3C Data Platform Web API (alpha) for group, Member, participant and specification data will be available.
Contributing to the Modern Tooling Task Force plan.

In February 2015, MathML 3.0 2nd Edition was approved as International Standard ISO/IEC 40314.
Jean-François Abramatic former W3C Chairman and currently W3C Fellow seconded by Inria was selected to be part of the NETmundial Initiative Coordination Council.
We've been establishing a formal Liaison with ISO TC 68 SC7 (Core Banking) to facilitate the integration of our work on Web Payments in the existing ecosystem of financial standards.
We now maintain a new Member-readable archive of the in-going and out-going liaison messages between W3C and other SDOs, like ITU, ISO, ARIB, etc.

6 press releases, generally translated into 5 languages by Hosts and Offices
40 talks
29 W3C Blog entries
Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+
24 Weekly Public Newsletters
8 new volunteer translations including 3 Authorized Translations of “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0”:
Coordinated by the Business Development team: 20th anniversary of W3C Europe: Symposium on twenty years of work accomplished by European stakeholders for the benefit of the Web & Celebratory Dinner (5 May 2015) in Paris, France

NEW! W3Cx is the latest extension of the W3C Training program. We entered an agreement with edX on 1 February 2015 and have our first course on HTML5 (part 1) going up now. It will start on 1 June 2015. You can still register for this exciting course!
- As of 20 April 2015, there were over 43K people registered.
We have a multi-tier Training Program:
- W3DevCampus is W3C's official online training for Web developers;
- W3Cx for MOOC training;
- Corporate training via our training services (following a b-learning model) is available either inter-enterprise or intra-enterprise.

Updated the W3C General Document License, to permit excerpting of code components under the GPL-compatible software license, and to permit the creation of non-specification derivative works.
Created a procedure for relicensing of unfinished W3C Specifications, and sent the first such request for AC review.
Updated the W3C Software License to the W3C Software and Document License, to make downstream re-use easier for software and in the case of documents where we grant permissive licensing.