W3C Fact Sheet
September 2019
This report was prepared for the September 2019 W3C Advisory Committee Meeting (W3C Member link). It accompanies the W3C Strategic Highlights – September 2019. For the previous edition, see the April 2019 fact sheet. Some links may be Member-only.
Membership, Staff
- 452 Members as of 4 September 2019
- 50.38
FTE with a full-time or part-time staff
of 63
- New Staff:
- Daniel Montalvo (WAI team, April 2019)
- Joshue O Connor (WAI team, April 2019)
- Hidde de Vries (WAI team, June 2019)
- Hiroko Homma (Admin, W3C/Keio, July 2019)
- Thieu-Lieu Vu (Admin, MIT, September 2019)
- Interns (May-August 2019):
- Jack Busa
- Eliot Powers
- Staff left:
- Marsha Robinson (May 2019)
- New Staff:
- W3C Fellows:
- Jean-François Abramatic, Inria (Liaisons)
- Eric Eggert, Knowbility, Inc. (WAI)
- Sandro Hawke, Hawkeworks LLC (Strategy)
- Ivan Herman, CWI (Architecture & Technology)
- Tanya Mandal, Internet Academy (MarComm)
Technical Reports
187 Technical Reports were published between 27 march 2019 and 4 September 2019.
Recommendations
Proposed Recommendations
Other Types
Strategy
Strategy Funnel tracks new activity.- 6 proposals in Evaluation and Chartering
- 32 work areas tracked in Incubation, many in active Community Groups
- 23 items in early Investigation
- 46 items in preliminary Exploration
Read more about the Strategy Funnel and contribute on GitHub.
W3C Workshops
- W3C Workshop focused on the needs and benefits at the intersection of VR & Accessibility (Inclusive XR) (5-6 November 2019 in Seattle, WA, USA)
- W3C Workshop on Data Models for Transportation (12-13 September 2019, Palo Alto, CA, USA)
- W3C Workshop on Web Games (27-28 June 2019, Redmond, WA, USA), view report
- Second W3C Workshop on the Web of Things (3-5 June 2019, Munich, Germany)
- W3C Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data; Creating Bridges: RDF, Property Graph and SQL (4-6 March 2019, Berlin, Germany), view report
The Strategy Team is considering a number of workshops, on topics including:
- Web & Machine Learning.
Project
- 33 Working Groups
- 236 active specifications are tracked:
- 208 aiming to become Recommendations
- 13 documents are planned to advance to Candidate Recommendation in the next 4 months
- 41 documents are planned to advance to Proposed Recommendation in the next 6 months
Groups
Newly Chartered or Rechartered
- Web Application Security WG (03-Apr)
- Web Payment Security IG (17-Apr)
- Patent and Standards IG (24-Apr)
- Web Applications WG (14-May)
- Web & Networks IG (16-May)
- Media WG (23-May)
- Media and Entertainment IG (06-Jun)
- HTML WG (06-Jun)
- Decentralized Identifier WG (05-Sep)
Extended
- Privacy IG (PING) (30-Sep)
- Verifiable Claims WG (30-Sep)
- Service Workers WG (31-Dec)
- Dataset Exchange WG (31-Dec)
- Web of Things Working Group (31-Dec)
- Web Audio Working Group (31-Dec)
Proposed charters / Advance Notice
- Accessibility Guidelines WG
- Privacy IG (PING)
- RDF Literal Direction WG
- Timed Text WG
- CSS WG
- Web Authentication WG
Closed
W3C Community and Business Groups
- 313 groups
- 11,000 participants
Marketing & Communications
- Events support:
- W3C Workshop on Data Models for Transportation
- Financial Innovation Summit 2019
- Seamless Payments Asia 2019
- W3C Workshop on Web Games
- IoT Tech Expo 2019
- Emmy award ceremony
- NAB Show 2019
- Diversity at W3C: 2019 update
- Web Payments flyer (2019 update)
- June 2019 AB election
- Ongoing work and support for W3C Legal Entity (messaging, deliverables)
- 2 press releases
- 19 W3C Blog posts
- 7 Talks
- Social Media: Twitter, LinkedIn
- Weekly Public Newsletters
Systems
- To streamline the W3C meetings registration, we have developped a new integrated registration and payment system that allows for various Web Payments methods such as the Payment Request API and Alipay. This new system was inaugurated for the TPAC 2019 registration.