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About the Core Working Group

The Internationalization (I18N) Core Working Group is part of the W3C Internationalization Activity.

Aims: Provide internationalization advice to other groups developing Web standards, and review their specifications (mostly W3C groups, but we also get involved in Unicode, IDN, IETF and other work).

Develop education and outreach materials to make the internationalization aspects of W3C technology better understood and more widely and consistently used by content authors and implementers.

For more details, see the Working Group Charter.

How to participate

The Working Group (WG) is always looking for additional participants, to work on a very varied range of topics and interests. The group needs a variety of people with different skills, from technical authoring to specialised knowledge of particular technologies.

See a list of participation benefits for you and your organization.

See some examples of what WG members do within the group.

For more information, see How to join.

Meetings

Teleconferences

The working group holds a weekly teleconference to discuss work items for about one hour.

Agenda builder

Day: Wednesday
Time: 14:00 UTC/GMT (Convert to your timezone)

The agenda is sent to the member-i18n-core list (archiveMO) .

The meeting uses the Zakim teleconference bridge (+1-617-761-6200, conference code 4186) and the W3C IRC server (irc.w3.org:6665, channel #core).

IRC via the Web: http://www.w3.org/2001/01/cgi-irc (invent a nickname, use #core channel)

For minutes see the public-i18n-core mail archive.

For minutes from the previous charter period (when this group was called simply the I18N WG), see this archiveMO.

Zakim IRC bot: http://www.w3.org/2001/12/zakim-irc-bot.html

Face-to-face meetings

  • Next meeting TBA

Past FTF meetings:

  • 9-10 November 2007, Boston, USA
    Held during the W3C TPAC.
  • 2-3 March 2006, Cannes, France.
    Held during the W3C Technical Plenary.
    [MinutesMO]
  • 28 February-1 March 2005, Boston, USA
    Held during the W3C Technical Plenary.
    [Minutes]
  • 4-5 March 2004, Cannes, France.
    Held during the W3C Technical Plenary.
    [Minutes]
  • 3-4 March 2003, Boston, Massachussetts, USA.
    Held during the W3C Technical Plenary.
    [Minutes]
  • 22-23 November 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
    [Minutes]

Useful Links

Mailing Lists

public-i18n-core@w3.org

[Archive] The public list for the Core WG. Used for the bulk of communications. Includes teleconference notes and announcements of a general nature.

member-i18n-core@w3.org

[ArchiveMO] For discussion of member-confidential topics.

www-international@w3.org

[Archive] Members of this group are encouraged to subscribe to this publicly archived list for technical discussion.

Work in Progress

Reviews:

Review Radar

Review History Page

Track discussions arising from reviews continue after the review period finishes in the archives and the Reviews page.

Guidelines, Education & Outreach:

Japanese Layout Taskforce:

This Japanese-language task force is documenting requirements for Japanese layout on the Web. There are periodic communications in English with the WGs involved: i18n, SVG, CSS, XSL-FO, and an English translation of the main deliverable. See the group home page.

Documents in edit

The pipeline points to articles that are currently in development.

Resource Pipeline

The internationalization wiki is used for collaborative development of i18n articles and for gathering information about feature requirements.

Internationalization wiki

Working Drafts intended for Note status

Miscellaneous working documents:

How to Join

If you wish to become a member of the working group follow the joining instructions. Working group members are responsible for the development of the group's deliverables, so some minimum commitment is required.

If you are unable to make the required commitment to join the working group, you can still follow the work by accessing the Internationalization Web site, the public mail archive, and all public documents.

You are also encouraged to join the mailing list of the Internationalization Interest Group (public archive).

Current participants (member only)

What WG members do

Working Group members contribute in one or more of the following ways.

  • Participate in discussions on the www-international and public-i18n-core mailing lists and during teleconferences.
  • Review articles prior to publication and send comments.
  • Review W3C specifications for internationalization issues and forward to the group
  • Coordinate notification and discussion of review issues with other Working Groups.
  • Provide information about language or script usage in response to our feedback requests.
  • Write articles and plan and discuss content for forthcoming articles.
  • Develop or review best practices for content authors, implementers, or specification developers.
  • Help maintain topic and techniques indexes to the information on the site.
  • Help respond to feedback on articles, etc.

If you are not a Working Group member, you can still contribute in a number of ways.

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