Introducing W3C

Leading the Web to its full potential

Technology

Domains and Working Groups

• ~65 groups
• 400+ members
• 18 world offices
• the community
• director: Tim Berners Lee
• CEO: Dr. Jeff Jaffee
• a team of ~60 individuals

W3C Staff Team Photo 2010

And it works

• the Web is a multibillion $s business
• there have to be rules based on consensus to have competitors work together
• such rules are:
  • our process
  • liberal copyright
  • patent policy
  • neutrality (no product endorsement)
• rules are liberal and leave space for creativity while maintaining the interest of our members and the public

After 17 years

• Web everywhere – the Mobile Web
• Web for everyone – the Accessible Web
• Web of structured information – the Semantic Web
• Web as a service – Rich Web Applications
• Web for business – Web Services
• Web for media – Video and Voice on the web

Requirements for the Web

• privacy
• security and trust
• intellectual property
• content classification and rating
• accessibility
• scalability

Working at W3C

Principles of the Web everywhere

• web-based tools and Internet tools: IRC, emails + teleconference system
• web-based information system
• distributed, efficient, it scales

The Systems Team

aka. the Systeam

• 12 people but not all full-time
• tools for
  • the team: emails, internal softwares, datastores
  • the members: web publishing, teleconference, wikis, blogging, mailing-list, archive, balloting, IRC
  • the public: validators, blog, forums, code hosting
• challenging: 1 to 5 billions hits a day - without validators, huge amount of users
• we develop a lot of tools, maintain and contribute to others
  • PHP/Java/Python/C/Perl and... Scala :-)
  • Apache httpd, HyperMail, validators, Jigsaw
  • CVS and... Mercurial :-)
• the future
  • site redesign
  • be "closer to the community"
  • test suites
  • light Incubators

Thank you

See you at http://www.w3.org/