This Public summary of recent achievements has been prepared for TPAC 2013. It accompanies the W3C Strategic Highlights - November 2013. See also the previous fact sheet (Members).
Membership & Staff
- 386 Members as of 29 October 2013 (was 383 in May 2013)
- 6 new Startup Members
- 87 Staff (was 85 in May); Members have access to an FTE snapshot for TPAC 2013 (covering November 2013 through June 2014) and daily FTE updates
- Arrived:
- Renoir Boulanger (August 2013, DevRel, W3C/MIT)
- Jinsong Wang (September 2013, UbiWeb, W3C/Beihang)
- Kenny Zhang (September 2013, WAI, W3C/Beihang)
- Felix Daub (October 2013, visiting student, W3C/MIT)
- Xiaoqian Wu (October 2013, Interaction, W3C/Beihang)
- Left:
- Joe Nicholas (August 2013)
- Lea Verou (August 2013)
- Thomas Roessler (September 2013)
- 6 Fellows (same as May 2013), but Chris Mills' Opera fellowship ended, and we welcomed Wu Wei, from RITT
Workshops
Recent
- Open Data on the Web (23-24 April 2013) [report]
- Referencing and Applying WCAG 2.0 in Different Contexts (23 May 2013)
- eBooks and i18n: Richer Internationalization for eBooks (4 June 2013) [report]
- Get Smart: Smart Homes, Cars, Devices and the Web - Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development (22-23 July 2013) [report]
- Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business (7-8 August 2013) [report]
- RDF Validation Workshop - Practical Assurances for Quality RDF Data (10-11 September 2013) [report]
- Publishing and the Open Web Platform (16-17 September 2013) [report]
Under Consideration in 2014
- TV/Broadcasting: February, Geneva
- Linking Geospatial Data, February, London
- Payments, March, Paris
- Security, March, London
- Web of Things, location TBD
- Performance, June, Santa Clara, CA
Groups
New and extended Working and Interest Groups
- Web Performance Working Group
- Digital Publishing Interest Group
- XML
Groups:
- Efficient XML Interchange Working Group
- XML Core Working Group
- XML Query Working Group
- XSLT Working Group (formerly XSL Working Group)
- XML Processing Model Working Group
- Government Linked Data (GLD) Working Group
- Web and TV Interest Group
- Web and Mobile Interest Group
- Web Security Interest Group
- HTML Working Group
- Web Application Security Working Group
- Patent and Standards Interest Group
Closed Working and Interest Groups
- Provenance Working Group
- eGovernment Interest Group
- Web
Services Activity:
- Web Services Coordination Group
- SOAP-JMS Binding Working Group
- Web Services Policy Working Group
- Web Services Resource Access Working Group
- XML Schema
Community Groups
- More than 150 groups
- Core Mob Community Group became Web and Mobile Interest Group
- 3310+ participants (2800+ last May)
- 188 (was 176) Member organizations, 1192 (was 1053) non-Member organizations
Technical Reports
Recommendations
- Web Storage
- HTML+RDFa 1.1
- RDFa Core 1.1 - Second Edition
- XHTML+RDFa 1.1 - Second Edition
- Timed Text Markup Language 1 (TTML1) (Second Edition)
- Touch Events
- Geolocation API Specification
- Page Visibility (Second Edition)
- Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0
Other Types
- 9 Proposed Recommendations
- 4 Proposed Edited Recommendation
- 15 Candidate Recommendations
- 25 Last Call Working Drafts
- 20 Working Drafts (not LC)
- 13 Group Notes
Marketing and Communications
- 1 press release, generally translated into 2-4 languages by the Offices
- 43 talks
- 20 Public Newsletters
- 38 W3C Blog entries
- Social Web: twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+
- 13 new translations, including 3 Candidate Authorized Translations: WCAG 2.0 in Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Estonian.
Liaisons
- OpenStand statement and Montevideo statement for transparency and openness, and for better governance and more inclusiveness.
- Co-signed letter in support of the US Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act).
- PAS: MathML 3 should be our next candidate.
- Active participation as advisor in the European Commission Multistakeholder Platform (EC MSP), with a focus on the EC Rolling Plan for ICT Standardization identifying EU policy priorities.
- New liaisons: Open IPTV Forum (TV), GSMA (Mobile), EPASOrg (Payment), OpenSocial Foundation (Social).
Systems
- Released new Publications system for W3C Recommendations
- Infrastructure improvements, notably server automation and account management
- Auditing and improving security of W3C systems
Online Training
W3DevCampus, W3C's official online training for Web developers.
- NEW! JavaScript for Beginners [11 Nov - 8 Dec 2013]
- HTML5 [ 3 Jun - 14 Jul 2013] [30 Sep - 10 Nov 2013]
- Preparing a global training program: new partnerships to help provide training courses in Japanese, Korean and Spanish
W3C Validator Suite
The W3C Validator Suite is a Software-as-a-Service solution which performs checks on HTML, CSS, and Internationalization (I18n) for an entire public site.
- September 2013: W3C Validator Suite transitioned out of beta
- October 2013: Further to customer feedback, W3C Validator Suite introduced new pricing model based on credits