W3C Fact Sheet - October 2015

Membership, Staff, Offices

• 407 Members as of 22 October 2015 (was 406 in May 2015)
  • Includes 13 new Startup Members
  • Includes 1 Introductory Industry Member
• 50.01 FTE from Member dues, 64.73 total. 79 staff are full-time or part-time (was 80 in June); Members have access to daily FTE updates.
  • Staff added (not including Fellows):
    • Irina Bolychevsky joined INK at W3C/ERCIM (June 2015)
    • Yingying Chen joined Ubiquitous at W3C/Beihang (August 2015)
  • Staff left:
    • Jérémie Astori (May 2015, Systeam)
    • Renoir Boulanger (July 2015, WebPlatform project)
    • Robin Berjon (August 2015, Interaction)
      
• W3C Australia Office moved to Australian National University (ANU) on 01 July 2015
  • Armin Haller is the Office Manager as he took a role in ANU from CSIRO
  • Priscilla Kan John is the Business Development Lead for the Office
  • It's housed in the College of Business and Economics
• W3C UK & Ireland Office will be shifting after 01 Jan 2016
  • Nominet is stepping down as the Office, Bernard Gidon and Alan Bird are driving search for a new Office
    

Workshops

Recent

• Eighth MultilingualWeb Workshop: Data content and services for the Multilingual Web, 29 April 2015 [report]
• Web and Digital Marketing Convergence, a W3C workshop, 17-18 September 2015

Upcoming

• Web Payments Seminar in Japan, 2 November 2015

Groups

New Working and Interest Groups

• Web Payments Working Group
• Web Platform Working Group
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
• Digital Publishing Interest Group
• Web Real-Time Communications Working Group
• Web Performance Working Group
• Multimodal Interaction Working Group

Closed Working and Interest Groups

• Web Notification Working Group
• Research and Development Working Group
• Independent User Interface Working Group
• Voice Browser Working Group
• System Applications Working Group
• Linked Data Platform Working Group

Community Groups

• 225 groups (was 205 in May 2015)
• Over 6300 participants (we had 5000 in May 2015)
• Over 230 Member organizations (was 215 in May 2015)
• Nearly 2100 non-Member organizations (was over 1500 in May 2015)
• Team launched Web Platform Incubator Community Group to propose and incubate new platform features.
• Transitions:
  • The work conducted in the ORTC CG is being taken as input in the WebRTC WG.
  • The team is working on a proposed charter for an Open License Expression Working Group; expecting to take the ODRL CG Final Specifications through the W3C standardization process.

Technical Reports

282 Technical Reports were published from 25 April to 22 October 2015.

Recommendations

• HTML5 Web Messaging
• State Chart XML (SCSML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction
• Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0

Other Types

• 6 Proposed Recommendation
• 1 Proposed Edited Recommendation
• 18 Candidate Recommendations
• 6 Last Call Working Drafts
• 218 Working Drafts (last call counted again)
• 17 Group Notes

Systems

• Release a new Mobile Checker validation service
• Released a Web API for access W3C data
• Continued enhancements to the Automated Publication Workflow System and next generation Pubrules Specberus
• Decommissioned Validator Suite

Liaisons

• Regular participation in major Internet Governance initiatives like NMI, GIPO, and also attended ICANN f2f in Singapore, Buenos Aires and Dublin
• At our request, OpenStand moved its copyright notice to CC0
• We entered new liaisons with peer organizations such as IIC, Genivi, OGC, RDA, etc; see our public liaisons page
• We participated and sent EC MSP Rolling plan comments; we're planning to support an SKOS submission to the MSP
• The liaisons team is working with the AB on a Web Policy IG charter

Marketing and Communications

• Events:
  • W3C/Beihang co-organized the 2nd CSS Developers Conference in China, Shanghai, August; attended by 400 participants
  • W3C/MIT held W3C Meetups in Boston (in July and jointly with the W3C TAG in September)
  • W3C/Beihang organized a DataVis Community Group Meetup in September
• Transition from Zakim teleconferencing facility to Webex
• Change of Head of Communications; internal re-organization
• Released 2015 edition of the W3C Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
• 4 press releases, generally translated into 4-5 languages by the Offices
• 25 talks
• 18 W3C Blog entries
  • including public Weekly digest of W3C news and trends
• Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+
• Weekly Public Newsletters
• 10 new volunteer translations

Licensing

• Updated Invited Expert (IE) agreement

Training Program Updates

• W3C have a multi-tier Training Program:
  • W3DevCampus is W3C's official online training platform;
    
  • W3Cx delivers MOOC training;
  • Corporate training via our training services (following a b-learning model) is available either inter-enterprise or intra-enterprise
• W3Cx, a partnership between W3C and edX (the world's leading online course platforms), has launched its first MOOC course in June-July 2015
  
  • Response to this course was phenomenally positive with over 87,000 participants from nearly 200 countries, and became an instant success with top reviews
    
  • On 30 Sept. 2015, W3C announced that it will strengthen its online course offerings on edX with two more HTML5 courses and an XSeries Program dedicated to HTML5 at an intermediate level
  • The HTML5 XSeries is composed of 2 MOOC courses:
    • "HTML5 Part 1: HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices"
    • "HTML5 Part 2: Advanced Techniques for Designing HTML5 Apps"