W3C is pleased to invite the developer community to attend the W3C Developer Meetup in Sapporo, Japan, on Monday 26 October 2015. Chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue (W3C) and Kensaku Komatsu (NTT Communications), the event’s agenda consists of industry demos and a series of short talks on topics such as Web payments, Web app security, CSS3, etc. Web designers and application developers are encouraged to gather for an evening of discussions and networking with others in the W3C community who are convening that week during W3C’s TPAC 2015. Participation in the meetup is open to anyone at no cost, but space is limited. Please register before 25 October 2015 and meet us there.

The Web Annotation Working Group has published a Working Draft of Web Annotation Data Model. Annotations are typically used to convey information about a resource or associations between resources. Simple examples include a comment or tag on a single web page or image, or a blog post about a news article.

The Digital Publishing Interest Group has published a Working Draft of Portable Web Publications for the Open Web Platform. This document introduces Portable Web Publications, a vision for the future of digital publishing that is based on a fully native representation of documents within the Open Web Platform. Portable Web Publications achieve full convergence between online and offline/portable document publishing: publishers and users won’t need to choose one or the other, but can switch between them dynamically, at will.

The Web Annotation Working Group and Web Platform Working Group have published a Working Draft of FindText API. The FindText API specification describes an API for finding ranges of text in a document or part of a document, using a variety of selection criteria.

The Device APIs Working Group has published a Working Draft of Generic Sensor API. This specification defines a framework for exposing sensor data to the Open Web Platform in a consistent way. It does so by defining a blueprint for writing specifications of concrete sensors along with an abstract Sensor interface that can be extended to accommodate different sensor types.

The Web Application Security Working Group has published a Working Draft of Confinement with Origin Web Labels. This specification defines an API for specifying privacy and integrity policies on data, in the form of origin labels, and a mechanism for confining code according to such policies. This allows Web application authors and server operators to share data with untrusted—buggy but not malicious—code (e.g., in a mashup scenario) yet impose restrictions on how the code can share the data further.

W3C released the 2015 edition of the W3C Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. Non-substantive changes since the 2014 version serve to clarify our documentation, including releasing the code under CC0.

W3C is a growing and global community where participants choose to work together, and in that process experience differences in language, location, nationality, and experience. Our Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct defines principles for respectful treatment within the W3C community, and promotes high standards of professional practice. This code, complemented by a set of Procedures, applies to any member of the W3C community – staff, members, invited experts, participants in W3C meetings, W3C teleconferences, W3C mailing lists, W3C functions, including the upcoming TPAC 2015 in Sapporo in a few weeks.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Group Note of CSS Snapshot 2015. This document collects together into one definition all the specs that together form the current state of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) as of 2015. The primary audience is CSS implementers, not CSS authors, as this definition includes modules by specification stability, not Web browser adoption rate.