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Dominique Hazaël-Massieux home page at W3C

Who am I?

Vast question! But leaving apart the introspection questions, I hold an Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris ; I joined W3C first as its Webmaster through a V.I.E. exchange program at M.I.T., then was recruited as part of the INRIA-, then ERCIM-based European Team of W3C.

My work in W3C

Working from France, I’m currently involved in the following projects:

• the Mobile Web Initiative, of which I am the Activity Lead; I am also the co-Chair of the Test Suites Working Group;
• the Device APIs and Policy Working Group that is looking at making it possible to access a device’s camera, addressbook, calendar, etc. from the browser;
• Web applications development and deployment to facilitate the W3C mission in the W3C Systems Team; most of my coding is done in PHP, Python, and XSLT, although I’m more and more involved in Javascript deployment as well, and have some rough experience with Java. I’m a strong proponent of open source software and open platforms.

Before that, I was Activity Lead of the Quality Assurance Activity and Staff Contact of the Quality Assurance Working Group; I was also involved in the early work on GRDDL and various Semantic Web projects. I’m also interested in Web Accessibility — as part of a larger focus of mine on usability.

More details about my activities are available in my Work blog.

Events

2009

W3C Cheatsheet for developers (SVG)

W3C Technical Plenary day, November 4, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices — Live!: challenges, Designing for mobile

Live training on Mobile Web Best Practices, October 14, Cambridge, United Kingdom

W3C and the Social Web (SVG)

10 Anniversario del W3C Italia, Pisa, Italy, October 7 2009

Web 2.0 and Beyond (HTML version)

WITFOR 2009, Economic Opportunities Commission, August 26, Hanoi, Vietnam

Building Web Apps & Widgets with W3C Standards

Mobile 2.0 Barcelona Developer Day, June 18 2009, Barcelona Activa, Barcelona (Spain)

Social Web and Mobile Widgets Bar Camps

W3C Track in WWW2009, April 23-24 2009, Madrid, Spain

Device Independent or Accessible

European Accessibility Forum 2009, March 27 2009, Frankfurt, Germany

video

Workshop on the Future of Social Networking

W3C Workshop, January 15-16 2009, Barcelona, Spain

2008

Workshop on Securing Access to Device APIs

W3C Workshop, December 11-12 2008, London, UK

Open/Proprietary/Standards in the Mobile Web industry

Mobile Web Europe 2008, September 23rd 2008, London, UK

The Web on the Move session

W3C track in WWW2008 conference, April 23rd 2008, Beijing, China

2007

Les Bonnes Pratiques du Web Mobile

Paris Web 2007, on November 16 2007, in Paris, France

audio record (Ogg/Vorbis)

Video

Le W3C et l’Initiative pour le Web Mobile

MobileWeb BarCamp, October 13 2007, Paris

Le Web mobile, partout et pour tous ? (15 min presentation)

First European e-Accessibility Forum, January 29 2007, Paris, France

2006

Why the Mobile Web Matters and How to Get Started (12 min tutorial)

November 2006 AC Meeting, Tokyo, Japan

Introduction to Mobile Web Best Practices (one hour webinar)

W3C Webinar, November 20 2006

Best Practices for a mobileOK Web (15 min presentation)

W3C Mobile Web Seminar, Paris, France, 16 November

Mobile Web Initiative presentation (10 minutes presentation)

WWW2006 Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 24 May 2006

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See the archives of older talks and presentations.

Projects

A few W3C projects I am/was involved in:

• W3C Cheatsheet for developers (source)
• the WebIDL checker
• the 2009 redesign of the W3C web site
• organization and co-chairing of the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona, Jan 2009, that led to the creation of the Social Web Incubator Group
• organization of the W3C Workshop on Securing access to Device APIs from the Web in London, Dec 2008
• the Web Compatibility Test for Mobile Browsers
• the Mobile Test Harness
• co-authored and tutored the on-line course on the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices
• W3C GRDDL service, HTMLDiff service
• the mobileOK checker (and its predecessor, the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices checker)
• Tracker, an issues an action items tracking system
• the Last Call comments tracker
• Planet Mobile Web
• IPP, the Implementation of the Patent Policy system
• WBS, the Web Balloting and Straw Poll System
• the publication rules checker and various other spec-editing assistants
• the Semantic data extractor
• the WAI mailing list archives improvements
• the Glossary project
• the old “W3C new visitors” page (2002)
• the initial move from table-based to CSS-layout for the W3C Home page back in 2002
• RDFization of the QA Matrix
• Automation (and RDFization) of the Technical Reports list management
• the spell checker

Publications

• Guidelines for writing device independent tests (Working Group Note)
• Return of the Mobile Style Sheet, A List Apart, January 2009
• Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL) (co-author of the original Team Submission)
• QA Framework Specification Guidelines (W3C Recommendation)
• Variability in Specifications (Working Group Note)
• Buy standards compliant web sites

Office address

W3C/ERCIM
2004, Route des Lucioles
Sophia Antipolis
06410 Biot
France

Misc

• Work blog, micro blog and my posts in the MWI Team blog, in the Systeam blog
• Personal Home page, mostly in in French
• Team page, restricted to W3C Staff
• My public PGP Key (Id: 0573873B, fingerprint: 21B3 D2AF D2CC CA7D A566 7FD7 6C4F C196 0573 873B, available on MIT keys server)