Mobile Widgets And Social Web Are Topics of W3C Track's "One Camp ADay"
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Contact Europe, Africa and the Middle East--
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http://www.w3.org/-- 7 April 2009 -- TheWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C) invites theWWW2009 conference
participants as well as thelocal Spanish developer community to participate in the newW3C track
format. For the first time, on 23 and 24April, W3C will organize two camps for developers to discuss current hot topicsin Web development and write code. TheMobile Widgets campandtheSocial Web campwill foster discussion and promote resultsin the form of working mobile widgets and semantic/social Web tools,respectively.
W3C invites discussion topic suggestions via thetrack wikis
, and morediscussion on a twitter feed (#w3ctrack). A special discounted registration feeto attend the W3C track is available (see theonline registration instructions
on theW3C track page
).
In addition to the W3C Track, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor ofthe Web, will give a keynote titled "Twenty Years: Looking Forward, LookingBack" on Wednesday, 22 April, followed by apress conference
.
All events will take place at thePalacio Municipal de CongresosCampo de las Naciones
, in Madrid, Spain.
About the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C]
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium whereMember organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together todevelop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creationof Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for theWeb. Over 400 organizations areMembers
of the Consortium.W3C is jointly run by theMIT ComputerScience and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(MIT CSAIL) in the USA, theEuropean Research Consortium for Informaticsand Mathematics(ERCIM) headquartered in France andKeio University
in Japan, and has additionalOffices worldwide. For moreinformation seehttp://www.w3.org/
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