W3C Welcomes Developer Community at WWW2009 in Madrid

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Mobile Widgets And Social Web Are Topics of W3C Track's "One Camp ADay"

Contact Americas, Australia--

Ian Jacobs, <ij@w3.org>, +1.718.260.9447or+1.617.253.2613

Contact Europe, Africa and the Middle East--

Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, +33 6 76 86 33 41

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 the

www09="WWW09">track 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 are

list="List">Members

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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