Call for Papers: Future Network & MobileSummit 2010
Conference and Exhibition — 26 Novembre 2009 The Future Network &
MobileSummit 2010 will take place in the Historical City of Florence,
16-18 June 2010. This conference will address all the
challenges of building the Future Internet, which will be based on mobile,
wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. The Scientific
Programme will incorporate all the key constituents of Future Networks
including: Radio Access and Spectrum, Converged and Optical Networks, and
Future Internet Technologies. The Call for
Papers for Future Network and MobileSummit 2010 is published with a
deadline of 04 December 2009 for paper submissions. Online submission will
open on 09 November.
Upcoming events in October 2009 — 12 October 2009
MWI staff will participate in:
a developper conference: Paris Web 2009, 8-10
Oct. 09, Paris
Last Call of Guidelines for Web Content Transformation Proxies
published — 6 October 2009
The MWBP Working Group published a Last Call
Working Draft of Guidelines for Web Content Transformation Proxies. The
document provides guidance to implementers of Content Transformation
proxies as to whether and how to transform Web content. The document has
already been published as a Last Call a year ago under the title "Content
Transformation Guidelines", and has been updated based on feedback from
reviewers. The Working Group invites the mobile developer community to
review the draft once more and send feedback by 6 November 2009, sending
comments to the public-bpwg-comments@w3.org
mailing-list.
Last Call of Mobile Web Application Best Practices
published — 6 October 2009
The Mobile Web Best Practices
Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of Mobile Web Application
Best Practices. This document specifies Best Practices for the
development and delivery of Web applications on mobile devices. The
recommendations expand upon statements made in the Mobile Web Best
Practices 1.0, especially concerning statements that relate to the
exploitation of device capabilities and awareness of the delivery context.
The Working Group invites the mobile developer community to review the
draft and send feedback by 6 November 2009, sending comments to the public-bpwg-comments@w3.org
mailing-list.
Mobile Web Online Training Course Starts Next Week — 5
October 2009
As we noted
recently it's uncertain whether it will be possible to run the
successful online training course An Introduction to W3C Mobile Web Best
Practices next year. We've received a great deal of positive feedback from
previous students so if you want to make sure you don't miss the
opportunity of taking this course with W3C, sign up today! The course
begins on Monday 12th October and will run through to Friday 11th December.
For more details of the course content and who will benefit most from it,
please see the dedicated
page.
30 Free Places for Cambridge Training Event — 26
September 2009
The Live Introduction to W3C Mobile Web Best Practices course scheduled for
Wednesday 14th October at the Møller Centre, Cambridge, is
attracting more and more interest. However it's clear that the price of the
event is a barrier to students, freelancers and small companies. As part of
its MobiWeb 2.0 project, co-funded by the EU's FP7
Programme, W3C is able to offer a maximum of 30 free places for the course.
For some, there really such a thing as a free lunch!
If you believe that you should benefit from one of these free places,
please e-mail Phil Archer and make your case! W3C members, as well as past,
present and future registered participants in the online course are
automatically allocated a place if requested.
Participants in the day will:
meet the tutors
(Phil Archer and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux) and your fellow
participants in the course;
spend time in a mixture of lectures and informal workshop sessions
where you can try out different solutions and share ideas;
learn about the specific promises and challenges of the mobile
platform;
gain practical experience of turning desktop content into mobile
content;
Guest speaker Paul Berney, Managing Director Europe of the Mobile
Marketing Association, will speak about the exciting developments in
marketing via mobile. Full
details of the event are available.
Online or Live - You Chose in October — 22 September
2009
The Introduction to Mobile Web Best Practices course that began in
September is running well with over 100 participants. As we had to turn
several people away after registration had closed, and it's uncertain at
this stage whether we'll be able to offer the course again next year, we're
squeezing in one more run of the online course before the end of the year.
Full details of the course - the content, the timing, who it's for and
more is available.Registration
is now open for a new run of the the online course beginning on
Monday 12th October and ending on Friday 11th December.
So, you choose - the online version or the live version. Either way,
come and learn the mobile Web with W3C!
Lots of events in September 09! — 15 September 2009
MWI staff will participate in:
jam sessions: Jam @
OSIM, 16 Sept. 09, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
W3C Mobile Web Design "live course", in Cambridge, UK
— 7 September 2009
Take advantage of the early bird registration rate (save 50%) before 11
September! Set for Wednesday 14 October, the "Introduction to W3C's Mobile
Web Best Practices - Live" event is designed to help you to really get
a grip on the mobile world. You'll meet the W3C experts who helped to
formulate the Best Practices document (and its developer's
cards), and enjoy a series of lively lectures and informal workshop
sessions. Guest speakers will also give their perspective on mobile Web
trends and opportunities. For more information, see live course page or the event's
flyer.
Upcoming MWI promotion— 21 July
20
in jam sessions: Jam @
OSIM, 16 Sept. 09, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
at code camps and dev. sessions: Over the Air, 25-26
Sept. 09, London, UK
Live Training Sessions On Mobile Web Design Rescheduled to 14
Oct. 2009 — 3 July 2009
Originally scheduled for July, W3C has rescheduled a Live Training Sessions On
Mobile Web Design for 14 October 2009, Cambridge, UK. Students will
attend a full day of lectures and hands on sessions about the W3C Mobile Web
Best Practices standard, and more generally on mobile Web design. Read
the full
announcement and register,
and learn more about the W3C Mobile Web Initiative.
POSTPONED to 14th October 2009 ! Live Training Sessions On Mobile
Web Design — 26 June 2009
The W3C Mobile Web Initiative opens registration
for its first ever live training day. Training will take place Tuesday 14
October in Cambridge, UK. Students will attend a full day of lectures and
hands on sessions on the W3C Mobile Web
Best Practices standard, and more generally on mobile Web design.
Mobiweb tweets! — 22 May 2009
Follow MWI work updates on the mobiweb twitter feed (http://twitter.com/mobiweb).
W3C Online Training Course: Registration open! — 15
May 2009
W3C is running an extended and improved version of its online course to
introduce Web developers and designers to its Mobile Web Best Practices. In
this course you will:
learn about the specific promises and challenges of the mobile
platform;
learn how to use W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices to design
mobile-friendly Web content and to adapt existing content for
mobile;
discover the relevant W3C resources for mobile Web design.
For more information including details of the course material, more
about who will benefit most from the course, the registration fee and
access to a free sample of the course itself, please visit http://www.w3.org/2009/04/MobiWeb102
Mobile Widgets and Social Web camps at WWW09 — 16
April 2009
W3C invites people to attend the W3C Track at WWW2009, in
Madrid, Spain on 23-24 April 2009. Part of WWW2009, the first day of the track is a
Mobile Widgets Camp and the second a Social Web Camp. Conference
participants and the local developer community are invited to submit topics
of discussion in advance, via the W3C Track wikis.
W3C Launches Social Web Incubator Group — 8 April
2009
Following the "Future of Social Networking" workshop report
recommendations, W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Social Web Incubator
Group. The group's mission is to understand the systems and
technologies that permit the description and identification of people,
groups, organizations, and user-generated content in extensible and
privacy-respecting ways (read also the group's charter for
more details).
W3C Invites Developers to Mobile Widgets, Social Web Camps During
WWW2009 — 7 April 2009
W3C invites people to attend the W3C Track at WWW2009, in
Madrid, Spain on 23-24 April 2009. Part of WWW2009, the first day of the track is a
Mobile Widgets Camp and the second a Social Web Camp. Conference
participants and the local developer community are invited to submit topics
of discussion in advance, via the W3C Track wikis. Read the
press
release.
Social Networking Challenges Identified by Industry Leaders in
W3C Workshop — 3 February 2009
W3C has published a report from the Workshop
on the Future of Social Networking. Observations from the fifty-five
organizations that participated (and submitted 72 position papers)
include:
By enabling users to share profiles and data across networks, social
networking sites can grow further and open possibilities for a
decentralized architecture for the Social Web.
Contextual information, especially for mobile device users, can
significantly enrich the social networking user experience.
Many users remain unaware of the impact of social networking on their
privacy.
The report highlights the need for an interoperable distributed social
Web framework and suggests concrete next steps
for W3C. W3C now welcomes interested parties to contribute to public
discussion. Read the press
release.
Social networks at W3C: foreseeing a 2009 success story!
— 12 January 2009
The W3C social networks
workshop is already a blast and it hasn't happened yet! We received a
record number (72) of interesting position papers from a wide range of key
players. The agenda
of the 2 days event is now published. Have a look at the impressive list (papers
and submitters). This workshop is likely going to have an important impact
on how the users (you and I, and kids the world over) are doing and will be
doing in the social Web space.
New draft of Mobile Web Application Best Practices
published — 5 January 2009
Shortly before the end of year 2008, the Mobile Web Best Practices Working
Group published an updated Working Draft of Mobile Web Application
Best Practices. This document specifies Best Practices for the
development and delivery of Web applications on mobile devices. The
recommendations expand upon statements made in the Mobile Web Best
Practices 1.0, especially concerning statements that relate to the
exploitation of device capabilities and awareness of the delivery context.
The Working Group is seeking feedback on the draft as well as
suggestions for additional and/or improved best practices that should be
recommended.
Mobile Web Made Easier with W3C mobileOK Tests Standard and
Online Checker — 8 December 2008
W3C made it easier to create content that will improve the user
experience on a broad range of devices. The W3C mobileOK checker provides
feedback on whether content is "mobileOK" and is based on the W3C
Recommendation also published today, mobileOK
Basic Tests 1.0. "Clean content offers a number of benefits to authors
and users alike. The mobileOK checker does a nice job helping you improve
your content one step at a time," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. Read
the press
release, Member
testimonials, and learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative.
MobiWeb2.0 addresses the usability and interoperability issues that are
holding back mobile Web access today. It will focus on mobile Web 2.0
applications based on technologies such as Ajax that can significantly increase
the usability of mobile Web applications. MobiWeb2.0 builds on 3GWeb, an FP6 project which focused on
improving traditional browsing on mobile devices.
The project is led by the World Wide Web Consortium, an organization of
currently more than 440 members from research and industry headed by the
Web’s inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. MobiWeb2.0 is integrated with W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) which
has many European supporters, including Ericsson, France Telecom, Nokia, TIM
Italia, Vodafone and Opera.
To achieve the overall goal of improving the user experience of mobile Web
access and thus tapping the huge potential for increasing mobile Web access,
MobiWeb2.0 has the following 5 objectives:
Increase awareness of W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative in
Europe
European actors in the mobile value chain (content providers, content
production tool providers, operators, browser vendors, etc.) need to be
informed about the goals and results of W3C’s Mobile Web Initiative.
Increase number of developers able to develop mobile Web 2.0
content
European Web developers need to be capable of creating Web content that
works well on mobile devices.
Provide more extensive test suites for Web standards
Today’s European mobile Web systems contain a range of
incompatibilities, often caused by lack of standards conformance. More
extensive test suites that cover a higher percentage of Web standards will
help increase the level of standards conformance.
Improve the W3C mobileOK validator tool
The W3C mobileOK validator tool developed in 3GWeb needs to be extended
to cover newer versions of W3C mobileOK.
Increase number of available tools for creating mobileOK
content
Content authors need to have access to content production tools that
create mobile friendly content. This is particularly true for user
generated content. The number of available tools needs to be increased. The
approach taken by MobiWeb2.0 is to contribute code to open source content
creation tools where needed.
The European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics (ERCIM)
aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to
increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from
eighteen European countries are members of ERCIM.
The Future Network &
MobileSummit 2010 will take place in the Historical City of Florence,
16-18 June 2010. This conference will address all the
challenges of building the Future Internet, which will be based on mobile,
wireless and fixed broadband communications infrastructures. The Scientific
Programme will incorporate all the key constituents of Future Networks
including: Radio Access and Spectrum, Converged and Optical Networks, and
Future Internet Technologies. The Call for
Papers for Future Network and MobileSummit 2010 is published with a
deadline of 04 December 2009 for paper submissions. Online submission will
open on 09 November.
The European Research Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics (ERCIM)
aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to
increase co-operation with European industry. Leading research institutes from
eighteen European countries are members of ERCIM.