This public report was first prepared for the Advisory Committee Meeting during TPAC 2015. It accompanies the W3C Strategic Highlights - October 2015. See the previous fact sheet.
Membership, Staff, Offices
- 407 Members as of 22 October 2015
(was 406 in May 2015)
- Includes 13 new Startup Members
- Includes 1 Introductory Industry Member
- 50.01 FTE from Member dues, 64.73
total. 79 staff are full-time or part-time (was 80
in June); Members have access to daily FTE
updates.
- Staff added (not including Fellows):
- Irina Bolychevsky joined INK at W3C/ERCIM (June 2015)
- Yingying Chen joined Ubiquitous at W3C/Beihang (August 2015)
- Staff left:
- Jérémie Astori (May 2015, Systeam)
- Renoir Boulanger (July 2015, WebPlatform project)
- Robin Berjon (August 2015, Interaction)
- Staff added (not including Fellows):
- W3C Australia Office moved to Australian National University (ANU) on 01
July 2015
- Armin Haller is the Office Manager as he took a role in ANU from CSIRO
- Priscilla Kan John is the Business Development Lead for the Office
- It's housed in the College of Business and Economics
- W3C UK & Ireland Office will be shifting after 01 Jan 2016
- Nominet is stepping down as the Office, Bernard Gidon and Alan Bird
are driving search for a new Office
- Nominet is stepping down as the Office, Bernard Gidon and Alan Bird
are driving search for a new Office
Workshops
Recent
- Eighth MultilingualWeb Workshop: Data content and services for the Multilingual Web, 29 April 2015 [report]
- Web and Digital Marketing Convergence, a W3C workshop, 17-18 September 2015
Upcoming
- Web Payments Seminar in Japan, 2 November 2015
Groups
New Working and Interest Groups
- Web Payments Working Group
- Web Platform Working Group
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
- Digital Publishing Interest Group
- Web Real-Time Communications Working Group
- Web Performance Working Group
- Multimodal Interaction Working Group
Closed Working and Interest Groups
- Web Notification Working Group
- Research and Development Working Group
- Independent User Interface Working Group
- Voice Browser Working Group
- System Applications Working Group
- Linked Data Platform Working Group
Community Groups
- 225 groups (was 205 in May 2015)
- Over 6300 participants (we had 5000 in May 2015)
- Over 230 Member organizations (was 215 in May 2015)
- Nearly 2100 non-Member organizations (was over 1500 in May 2015)
- Team launched Web Platform Incubator Community Group to propose and incubate new platform features.
- Transitions:
- The work conducted in the ORTC CG is being taken as input in the WebRTC WG.
- The team is working on a proposed charter for an Open License Expression Working Group; expecting to take the ODRL CG Final Specifications through the W3C standardization process.
Technical Reports
282 Technical Reports were published from 25 April to 22 October 2015.
Recommendations
- HTML5 Web Messaging
- State Chart XML (SCSML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction
- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0
Other Types
- 6 Proposed Recommendation
- 1 Proposed Edited Recommendation
- 18 Candidate Recommendations
- 6 Last Call Working Drafts
- 218 Working Drafts (last call counted again)
- 17 Group Notes
Systems
- Release a new Mobile Checker validation service
- Released a Web API for access W3C data
- Continued enhancements to the Automated Publication Workflow System and next generation Pubrules Specberus
- Decommissioned Validator Suite
Liaisons
- Regular participation in major Internet Governance initiatives like NMI, GIPO, and also attended ICANN f2f in Singapore, Buenos Aires and Dublin
- At our request, OpenStand moved its copyright notice to CC0
- We entered new liaisons with peer organizations such as IIC, Genivi, OGC, RDA, etc; see our public liaisons page
- We participated and sent EC MSP Rolling plan comments; we're planning to support an SKOS submission to the MSP
- The liaisons team is working with the AB on a Web Policy IG charter
Marketing and Communications
- Events:
- W3C/Beihang co-organized the 2nd CSS Developers Conference in China, Shanghai, August; attended by 400 participants
- W3C/MIT held W3C Meetups in Boston (in July and jointly with the W3C TAG in September)
- W3C/Beihang organized a DataVis Community Group Meetup in September
- Transition from Zakim teleconferencing facility to Webex
- Change of Head of Communications; internal re-organization
- Released 2015 edition of the W3C Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
- 4 press releases, generally translated into 4-5 languages by the Offices
- 25 talks
- 18 W3C
Blog entries
- including public Weekly digest of W3C news and trends
- Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+
- Weekly Public Newsletters
- 10 new volunteer translations
Licensing
- Updated Invited Expert (IE) agreement
Training Program Updates
- W3C have a multi-tier Training Program:
- W3DevCampus is W3C's
official online training platform;
- W3Cx delivers MOOC training;
- Corporate training via our training services (following a b-learning model) is available either inter-enterprise or intra-enterprise
- W3DevCampus is W3C's
official online training platform;
- W3Cx, a partnership between
W3C and edX (the world's leading online
course platforms), has launched its first MOOC course in June-July 2015
- Response to this course was phenomenally positive with over 87,000
participants from nearly 200 countries, and became an instant success
with top
reviews
- On 30 Sept. 2015, W3C announced that it will strengthen its online course offerings on edX with two more HTML5 courses and an XSeries Program dedicated to HTML5 at an intermediate level
- The HTML5 XSeries is composed of 2 MOOC courses:
- Response to this course was phenomenally positive with over 87,000
participants from nearly 200 countries, and became an instant success
with top
reviews