W3C Interop Tour - 21 May to 3
June 2002
Project acronym: QUESTION-HOW
Project Full Title:Quality Engineering
Solutions via Tools, Information and Outreach for the New Highly-enriched
Offerings from W3C: Evolving the Web in Europe
Project/Contract No. IST-2000-28767
Workpackage 6, Deliverable D6.1
Project Manager: Daniel Dardailler
<danield@w3.org>
Author of this document: Marie-Claire
Forgue<marie@w3.org>
Created: June 2002. Last updated: 22
August 2002.
Introduction
The W3C has organized a series of one day events accross Europe, in 2002,
which purpose is twofold:
- promote W3C interoperable technologies,
- launch the regionalization of three European W3C Offices (see WP3
deliverables).
The schedule of the events has been the following:
- 21 May: Paris - FRANCE and
official launch of the W3C Interop Tour
- 28 May: Vienna - AUSTRIA with
the launch of the W3C German-Austrian Office
- 30 May: Dublin - IRELAND with
the launch of the W3C UK-Ireland Office
- 3 June: Brussels - BELGIUM
with the launch of the W3C Benelux Office
A public Web page has been published in April 2002 presenting the tour at:
http://www.w3.org/2002/03/interoptour.html
A press release has been issued on 21 May and is available at: http://www.w3.org/2002/03/interoptour-pressrelease
(translations in French,
German
and Dutch)
Interoperability as the theme of the tour
The Web is an application built on top of the Internet and, as such, has
inherited its fundamental design principles. Along with evolution (accomodate
future technologies) and decentralization (eliminate dependencies),
interoperability implies that specifications for the Web's languages and
protocols must be compatible with one another and allow (any) hardware and
software used to access the Web to work together.
Deliverables
Public accessible Web page (in French) at: http://www.w3.org/2002/04/Interop-Paris.html
- Agenda
The focus of this event was on XML technologies, Document Formats
and the SVG specification. All the talks had been delivered in
French.
- Attendance
Participants could register
on line. Exactly 96 people did register on line
and 6 people did register on site. In total, about 60 people did
attend the conference.
- Press Attendance
- E Business, 01 Informatique, 01 Net, AFP, Atos Origin Multimédia,
Décision Micro & Réseaux, Internet Actu, Internet Professionnel,
Le Monde, Le Monde Informatique, Le Nouvel Hebdo, Newbiz, Silicon,
Technoforum, ZDNet, Sonovision
- Press articles:
- Noticeable fact: amongst many interviews of W3C speakers, a
video recording of Daniel Dardailler's presentation has been realized by
Internet Actu (FTPress Group), and made available on the Web. There is a
total of 7 video sequences [1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7].
- Décision Micro &
Réseaux [24 June]
- "La BnF
adapte l'image vectorielle SVG pour son site Web",
Francisco Villacampa, SVG, HTML, W3C, W3C interop Tour
- E-Business [27 May]
- "Interop tour du W3C: où sont les sociétés
françaises", W3C, W3C Interop Tour
- NetEconomy [22 May]
- "Le
W3C démarre à Paris sa tournée européenne sur
l'interopérabilité" , Ariane Beky, W3C, SMIL, P3P,
XML, SVG, RDF, MathML, W3C interop Tour
- The Industry Standard [22
May]
- "W3C
tours Europe preaching interoperability", Joris Evers,
W3C, W3C interop Tour, M.C. Forgue
- Yahoo!France Finance [21
May]
- "Le
W3C organise une tournée européenne sur le thème de
l'Interopérabilité" , W3C, W3C interop Tour
- L'Atelier [14 May]
- "Conférences
: W3C Interop Tour" , Christine Weissrock, W3C, W3C
interop Tour
- Yahoo! France Finance [6
May]
- "W3C
présente Interop Tour, le 21 mai à Paris" , W3C, XML,
SVG, W3C interop Tour, Daniel Dardailler, Vincent Quint, Ivan
Herman
- News-European
Schoolnet [19 June]
- "World Wide Web Consortium reaches out to Europe" ,
W3C, W3C offices, W3C interop Tour
Public accessible Web page (in German) at: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/Germany/Events/Vienna2002/overview.html
Agenda
- There was the official launch of the W3C Germany and
Austria Office.
The focus of this event was on XML technologies, and XHTML family.
The talks were delivered half in German and half in English.
- Launch of the W3C Germany and Austria Office - Klaus Birkenbihl -
W3C German-Austria Office Manager
- WWW in Österreich - Grußwort von Frau Mag. Sabine
Pohoryles-Drexel (Abteilung Technik und Innovation
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit)
- Overview and
future of W3C - Daniel Dardailler - Director of W3C Europe
- W3C
Technologies for presentation - Ivan Herman - W3C Head of
offices
- XHTML, the
great integrator - Steven Pemberton - Chair of W3C HTML Working
Group
- Bericht aus der XMLquery Arbeitsgruppe - Ingo Macherius -
Entwicklung Infonyte GmbH, Darmstadt
- Attendance
- About 50 people did attend the conference.
- Press Attendance
- E-Market, E-Media, ORF, Computerwelt, dpa, Format, Profil
- A press lunch has been organized.
Public accessible Web page at: http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/FutureEvents/Dublin_event_announce.html
Agenda
- There was the official launch of the W3C UK and Ireland Office.
The focus of this event was on XML technologies, and Web
Services.
- Attendance
- About 45 people did attend the conference.
- Press Attendance
- The Irish Times, ElectricNews.net, IT's Monday, ComputerScope, PC
Live!
- Press Articles
- ElectricNews.Net [29 May]
- "W3C comes
to Ireland to spread the word", Matthew Clark, W3C,
XML, HTML, VoiceXML,W3C Interop Tour, W3C Offices
- The Irish Times [1 June]
- "W3C still setting the standards for the Web" ,
Karlin Lillington, W3C, HTML, XML, Semantic Web, W3C Interop Tour,
Tim Berners-Lee
- IT's Monday [3 June]
- "Specifications hold the web together" , John
Sterne, W3C, Web Services, W3C Interop Tour, Daniel
Dardailler
Public accessible Web page (in Dutch) at: http://www.w3c.nl/brussel_3juni2002.shtml
and at: http://www.w3c.nl/brussel_3juni2002_eng.shtml
Agenda
- There was the official launch of the W3C
Benelux Office.
The focus of this event was on XML technologies, and Device
Independence.
- Welcome and launch of the W3C Benelux Office - Frank Roos - Head
of the W3C Benelux Office
- W3C and European IST research - Jacques Bus - Head Technologies
and Engineering for Software, Systems and Services (European
Commission, Information Society DG, Directorate E)
- Overview and
future of W3C - Daniel Dardailler - Director of W3C Europe
- Interoperability of W3C XML Technologies - Michael
Sperberg-McQueen - W3C Architecture Domain Leader
- Device Independence -
Philipp Hoschka - W3C Interaction Domain Leader
- Interoperability in Content Management - Vincent Buller -
Technical Product Manager BackStream
- Attendance
- About 50 people did attend the conference.
- Press Attendance
- Metro, Smart Business, Nouvelles des Technologies de l'Information,
Clickx Magazine, Skynet Web Magazine, ZDNet, CMCorporate, Data News,
Corporate Solutions, Business ICT, LAN News
- Press Articles
- METRO [6 June]
- "W3C krijgt Benelux-broertje" , W3C, W3C Benelux
Office,W3C Interop Tour
- i-TEL [1 June]
- "W3C Interop Tour op 3 Juni te Brussel" , W3C,
W3C interop Tour
Conclusion
The overall tour has been very well received, the attendance in all stops
being quite enthusiastic and very interested. It has to be noted that
attendees were already acknowledgeable of W3C work, at all levels of
understanding. They were few individuals but a great number of industrials,
who did appreciate the quality of the presentations and asked good questions
during the discussion periods.
W3C would like to thank Jacques Bus and all government and European
representatives for their participation in the W3C Interop Tour.
A selection of pictures taken during the Interop Tour is available at: http://www.w3.org/2001/qh/WP_6/ITPictures/
Marie-Claire Forgue, W3C European Communications Officer (marie@w3.org)
Last revised: $Date: 2002/09/18 14:57:49 $
