W3C Fact Sheet - September 2016

This public report was first prepared for the Advisory Committee Meeting during TPAC 2016 in Lisbon. It accompanies the W3C Strategic Highlights - September 2016. Some links may be W3C-Member only. See the previous fact sheet.

Membership, Staff

427 Members as of 12 September 2016 (was 412 in March 2016)
- Includes 13 new Startup Members
- Includes 1 Introductory Industry Member
51.27 FTE from Member dues, 58.75 total. 75 staff are full-time or part-time (was 73 in March 2016); Members have access to daily FTE updates.
- Staff added (not including Fellows):
  - Samuel Weiler (April 2016, Technology & Society, at MIT)
  - Olive Xu (May 2016, Marcomm, at Beihang)
  - Amy Guy (June 2016, Technology & Society, at MIT)
  - Yan Wang (August 2016, Admin, at Beihang)
- Staff left:
  - Molly Holzschlag (March 2016, MarComm)
  - Kevin White (April 2016, WAI)

322 Technical Reports were published between 14 March and 12 September 2016.

Blockchains and the Web Workshop: Distributed Ledgers on the Web, 29-30 June 2016, Cambridge, MA, USA [report]

W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality: 19-20 October 2016, San Jose, CA, USA
Smart Descriptions & Smarter Vocabularies (SDSVoc): 30 November - 1 December 2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Initial release of Unitas, our dynamic group pages (sample group) system that leverages our Web API. The Web Platform WG has agreed to be an early adopter and provide feedback. Others are willing to use and promote it for their groups as well.
W3C Systems Team worked with Los Alamos National Laboratory and others in order to expose our specifications revision history to Memento timegate.
Our replacement pubrules checker (Specberus) that is coupled to our automated publication system has graduated from experimental to production status replacing the previous system.
Spambot activity was increasing and necessitated we increase protection by requiring use of a captcha on account creation and restricting wiki editor status to specific groups of users.
To notably improve performance of some of our dynamic services including wikis and blogs we have introduced caching proxies.

In the past 6 months, the Liaisons team has been busy preparing the charter for the potential TechPolig work. After a first AC review in May, the team has revised the charter for another round of W3C Advisory Committee review.
After some discussions related to a change in the ISO JTC 1 PAS copyright regime (now postponed), MathML 3.2 has finally been published as ISO/IEC 40314:2016.
W3C is tracking the draft chartering work for the ICANN new gTLD auction proceeds. We're trying to make sure that W3C can be a valid recipient of those funds, when they get to be granted.
W3C is participating in GIPO and is promoting the use of the new GIPO tool, a Web application for browsing and query searching Internet Governance topics.
We're active in the European Commision work on the Multistakeholder Platform (MSP) and its Rolling Plan.
We entered new liaisons with peer organizations such as the FIDO Alliance, OPC, etc; see our public liaisons page for details.

W3Cx, a partnership between W3C and edX (the world's leading online course platforms), has launched its first MOOC course in June 2015. Since then, W3Cx introduced an "Learn HTML5 from W3C" XSeries program on edX composed of 3 MOOC courses:
- HTML5 Introduction - in cooperation with Intel Corporation
- HTML5 Part 1: HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices
- HTML5 Part 2: Advanced Techniques for Designing HTML5 Apps
The success (high enrollment figures - over 300K learners worldwide - and great reviews) of these HTML5 courses is driving demand for new courses. In the next 6 months, we plan to release:
- CSS Introduction - in cooperation with Microsoft Corporation
- JavaScript Introduction - in coordination with Université Côte d'Azur
On 18 July 2016, edX announced that Michel Buffa (teacher of both the HTM5 Part 1 and Part 2 courses) had been nominated as one of finalists for the edX Prize 2016 recognizing Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and Learning. The winner will be announced mid-November during the edX Global Forum event.
As a reminder, 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

Events:
- Tim Berners-Lee presented in a keynote at WWW2016 conference.
- Ted Guild spoke about Web and Automotive standardization at TU Automotive Cybersecurity USA 2016 through marketing partnership with TU-Automotive
- Published EME next wave - Factsheet
- Successful W3C Developer Meetup in March at MIT
4 press releases, generally translated into 5-6 languages by the W3C Offices
40 talks
19 W3C Blog entries
- including public Weekly digest of W3C news and trends
Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+
Weekly Public Newsletters
11 new volunteer translations