Australian W3C Office

Michael (TM) Smith gave a great talk at Web Directions South in Sydney.  His talk was on the features of HTML 5, focusing on those features that are already supported by web browsers.

You can read more about Mike at:  http://people.w3.org/mike/

 (Photo from Rowen Atkinson  -   Some Rights Reserved)

Due to low registrations this event has been cancelled. We will still be providing Mike Smith as a keynote speaker at Web Directions and we will still be present at Web Directions South. So come along and learn all about HTML 5 from the Co-Chair for the HTML 5 working group.

We intend to come back next year with some great activities. If you have ideas or preferences for what sort of activities you would like W3C Australia to host, please contact us.

Web Directions South, Sydney - 24 September 2008

Featuring keynotes, presentations and tutorials by Australian and
international standards experts, the day aims to give an understanding
of emerging technologies and also hands on experience with semantic
technologies.

Areas covered will include:
- HTML 5 overview testing and implementing HTML 5 components
- Emergency Information Interoperability framework
- The Web Application Working Group projects
- Managing sensor networks with semantic technologies
- SPARQL - querying the semantic web
- The Widgets Working Group projects
- Implementing a semantic web application with SPARQL, GRDDL, RDF and OWL

Speakers include:
- Mike Smith (W3C HTML 5 Co-Chair)
- Charles McCathieNevile (W3C Web Applications working group chair)
- Renato Ianella (W3C Emergency Information Interoperability framework
co-chair)
- Marcos Caceres (W3C Widget Editor)
- Amit Parashar (W3C Australia & e-Gov interest group)

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