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Technical Plenary Day
22 October 2008
The Wednesday of the Technical Plenary Week offers a unique opportunity for our broad W3C Community (Working, Interest and Coordination Groups; Advisory Committee Representatives; Advisory Board; Technical Architecture Group; and Team) who have registered to gather in one room and discuss technical topics of broad interest to the attendees, and of significant importance to past, present and future of the World Wide Web Consortium. Discussion during this Technical Plenary day will not be considered Member confidential. Slides and minutes will be publicly available.
If you have IRC, you are welcome to join channel #tp on irc.w3.org:6665 to help record the meeting.
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Agenda
This agenda is being developed by the 2008 Tech Plenary planning
committee. Chair for the day is Steve Bratt, W3C's CEO. Session topics and
speakers are being finalized, and may still be subject to change at this time
(planning committee notes).
| 08:00 to 08:45 |
Meeting
start
Description:Meet and greet, and time to set up your laptop, read mail, etc., before the opening keynote. |
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| 08:45 to 09:10 |
Session
1: Opening Keynote: "Cleaning up the
Web" Presenter: Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director |
| 09:10 to 10:10 |
Session
2: Web Architecture: Blueprint or
Recipe? [Q&A blog entry] Description: Are the principles of Web Architecture in tune with the needs of the Web community? Do people understand the Architecture document? Is it practical and implementable, or too abstract and divorced from working reality? What happens when specifications break Web Architecture? Moderator:Chris Lilley, W3C [slides] Presenters and Topics:
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| 10:10 to 10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30 to 10:40 |
Session
3: WAI-ARIA Demo: Universal "Know
and Feel" for Scripted Interaction Description: Web applications are converging towards the look and feel of desktop applications. This is accomplished largely with script. But the scripted interaction often leaves keyboard users and screen-reader users unable to use the applications. Enter WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. WAI-ARIA provides a little more markup so the rich interaction and information, such as widget role and state, is available to all users. Moderator: Shawn Henry, W3C Presenters:
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| 10:40 to 11:40 |
Session
4: Impact of CMS on the Web Description: An increasing proportion of Web content is not directly authored but is assembled by a Content Management System (CMS). How does this impact W3C specifications, architecture, authoring guidelines, and browsers? Moderator: Shawn Henry, W3C Presenters and Topics: |
| 11:40 to 12:15 |
Session 5: Lightning
Talks
Description: Presenters will provide strictly-monitored 5-minute talks (2.5 minutes presentation, 2.5 minutes discussion) on topics that range from interesting, informative, controversial or all of the above. The audience will have the opportunity to engage in a lightning question and answer period following each presentation. Moderator: Rotan Hanrahan, Mobileaware Ltd. Presenters and Topics:
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| 12:15 to 13:30 |
Lunch (Restaurant le Féréol) Birds-of-a-Feather Tables: Participants may add to provided sign-up sheets any topic they like for discussion at each lunch table, and all are welcome to sign-up to sit at a particular table where a discussion of interest (and, hopefully, an interesting discussion) is proposed to take place. |
| 13:30 to 13:45 |
Session
6: MMI, VB and SCXML Demonstrations
Description: Demonstrations of Multimodal Interaction, Voice Browsing, and the use of State Chart XML as a connector. Moderator: Deborah Dahl (Invited Expert) Presenters and Topics:
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| 13:45 to 15:00 |
Session
7: Future of XML Ecosystem in W3C Client-Side
Work Description: Client-side technologies developed at W3C have used an XML-based architecture aimed at distributed extensibility (XML, XML Namespaces, XML Events, DOM Level 3, xml:id). The HTML5 work on the other hand uses a centralized extensibility mechanism based on formalized tagsoup parsing. This has had a knock-on effect on other W3C groups who seek to produce tagsoup-based alternatives (WAI ARIA, MathML) or to integrate XML subtrees in tagsoup (SVG) to work with HTML5. The resulting tensions regarding the future direction of W3C work will be examined in this session. Moderator: Chris Lilley, W3C Presenters and Topics:
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| 15:00 to 15:15 |
Session
8: W3C News Description: An update on W3C, and the relationship to the World Wide Web Foundation. Presenter: Steve Bratt, W3C [slides] |
| 15:15 to 15:45 |
Break |
| 15:45 to 16:00 |
Session
9: Semantic Web Demonstrations Description: Demonstrations of the Semantic Web Moderator: Ivan Herman, W3C Presenters and Topics:
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| 16:00 to 17:15 |
Session
X: Getting to Rec: Working Group Survival
Guide Description: Seasoned W3C Working Group members will share advice, experiences and cautionary tales. How to build and maintain an effective group; what tools have proven worth and which new ones are needed; getting through last call, working with developer and authoring communities... Moderator: Rotan Hanrahan, Mobileaware Ltd. Presenters and Topics: |
| 17:15 to 17:50 |
Session 11: Lightning
Talks Description: Presenters will provide strictly-monitored 5-minute talks (2.5 minutes presentation, 2.5 minutes discussion) on topics that range from interesting, informative, controversial or all of the above. The audience will have the opportunity to engage in a lightning question and answer period following each presentation. Moderator:Rotan Hanrahan, Mobileaware Ltd. Presenters and Topics:
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| 17:50 to 18:00 |
Wrap-Up and Adjourn |
An evening receptionwill close the day in room Les Iles (19:00 - 22:00).
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Many thanks to the Program Committee
Steve Bratt, W3C; John Breslin, DERI; Deborah Dahl, Invited Expert; Rotan Hanrahan, Mobileaware; Shawn Henry, W3C; Jim Larson, Intervoice; Ora Lassila, Nokia; Chris Lilley, W3C; Hal Lockhart, Oracle; David Orchard, Invited Experts; Steven Pemberton, CWI; Olivier Thereaux, W3C.