Monday, October 26, 2009

Developer Gathering during W3C's annual Technical Plenary (TPAC) Week

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) invites the public to gather for an afternoon of discussion and networking. The Developer Gathering takes place during W3C's annual Technical Plenary (TPAC) Week, when W3C Working Groups meet face-to-face and work to resolve the most challenging technical issues facing the Consortium.

This is the first ever Developer Gathering and it takes place on November 5, 2009 in Santa Clara, California, USA. The event will be of particular interest to web application developers.

The speakers will present the latest on various open standards in development and gather feedback from participants. The following speakers are lined up; check here for updates:

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Leslie Daigle (ISOC) on Internet Ecosystem Health
Mark Davis (Unicode Consortium) on controversies around international domain names
Brendan Eich (Mozilla) on "ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript"
Fantasai on CSS
Philippe Le Hégaret (W3C) on community-built browser test suites.
Arun Ranganathan (Mozilla) on APIs
Kevin Marks (OWF) on OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial

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