Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the March’03 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, WSDL, and CSS3.
# Free W3C Web Services Seminar - Melbourne, 3pm -5pm, 24th March. Venue: Department of Infrastructure Theatrette, Level 29, Nauru House, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne.
The Australian W3C Office, in conjunction with MultiMedia Victoria, DSTC and ManageSoft, presents a free seminar - W3C and Web Services. Web services is a hot topic today, because it promises to be the foundation of the Web tomorrow. We have all seen the impact and benefits of the Web. Web services will enable the Web to be even more powerful and useful. The W3C is developing the specifications for Web Services. It is a vendor neutral organisation and it is committed to keeping the Web open and interoperable - vital ingredients for the success of the Web. Building on the success of HTML, XML and other W3C technologies, Web Services will help us realise the full potential of the Web. Further information will become available at: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html
To register for this seminar please complete the following and email to: w3c-australia@w3.org
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Location of free W3C seminar: Brisbane
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MultiMedia Victoria: http://www.mmv.vic.gov.au
DSTC Pty Ltd: http://www.dstc.edu.au
ManageSoft Corporation: http://www.managesoft.com
# Free Accessibility Briefing
Australian accessibility testing service, IT-Test Consortium, is presenting free business briefings for CEO's, Business Development Managers, Senior Technical Managers from any company currently exporting, or considering exporting, ICT products or services.
Dates and Venues:
Melbourne, 27 March - 3:00 - 5:00pm,
Theatrette Level 29 Nauru House,
80 Collins Street
Perth, 31 March - 3:00 - 5:00pm,
Seminar Room 3, The Technology Park Function Centre,
Brodie Hill Drive, Bentley
Adelaide, 2 April, 2.00pm-3:45pm,
Centre for Innovation, Business and Manufacturing,
145 South Terrace
Canberra, 9 April, 10:00 - 11:45am,
Canberra Business Promotions Centre,
National Capital Exhibition Centre Regatta Point
Sydney, 11 April, 10:00 - 11:45am,
Trade and Investment Centre, Level 44,
Grosvenor Place, 225 George Street.
Registration: Contact Sandra Knight or phone (03) 9864 9249
# Ausweb
AusWeb, Australia's premier Web conference, provides an opportunity for you to report your research outcomes as a refereed paper, present a poster session of your activities, attend a tutorial or workshop, or just listen, talk and network with other Web developers and users from around Australia and overseas - AusWeb03 is on again from the 5th to 9th July, on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Details regarding the call for papers, tutorial and workshop program, keynotes and online registration are available at http://ausweb.scu.edu.au
W3C holds its third annual Technical Plenary and All Working Group Meeting from 3-7 March in Cambridge, MA, USA. 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups hold face-to-face meetings. Mid-week, many of the more than 400 participants attend the all day public plenary, by far the largest group in the event's history. If your organization would like to join W3C, please refer to the Membership page.
Meeting: http://www.w3.org/2002/10/allgroupoverview/
Membership: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Prospectus/Joining
The China International Forum on WWW's Development 2003 will be held in Beijing, China on 16-17 April. W3C Team members Judy Brewer, Martin Dürst, Ivan Herman, Philipp Hoschka and Matt May present keynotes and tutorials. Attendees will participate in panels on accessibility, SVG, mobile Web, the Semantic Web, VoiceXML and internationalization. Registration is open. The event is co-organized by the China Computer Federation and the W3C Office in Hong Kong.
Forum: http://www.w3c.org.hk/CIFWeb03/
Registration: http://www.w3c.org.hk/CIFWeb03/RegistrationFees.html
China Computer Federation: http://www.ccf.org.cn/
W3C Hong Kong Office: http://www.w3c.org.hk/
W3C is pleased to announce the first in a series of teleconferences on Web accessibility research. Researchers and practitioners in document collaboration, human-computer interaction, assistive technologies, disability studies, Web accessibility, and related fields are invited. The event is sponsored by the Web Accessibility Initiative's Research and Development Interest Group. The first telecon is tentatively 14 April. Position papers are due 21 March. Please refer to the call for papers.
WAI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Research and Development IG: http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/
Call for Papers: http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2003/03/call-collaboration.html
The Web Services Description Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2. WSDL is a model and an XML format for describing Web services that allows separation of abstract functionality from concrete details.
WSDL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-wsdl12-20030303/
Web Services Activity: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
Registration is open for the 23rd Internationalization & Unicode Conference to be held 24-26 March in Prague, Czech Republic, near most major cities in Europe. Come and meet W3C Team members Martin Dürst, Richard Ishida, and Chris Lilley who are presenting. The event is the premier technical conference worldwide for software and Web internationalization.
Registration: http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc23/registration.html
Conference: http://www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc23/
Martin Dürst: http://www.w3.org/People/D%c3%bcrst/
Richard Ishida: http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
Chris Lilley: http://www.w3.org/People/chris/
Unicode: http://www.unicode.org/
Internationalization Activity: http://www.w3.org/International/
The CSS Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the CSS3 module: Text incorporating all comments from the first Last Call. The group welcomes feedback through 5 March. The document is a set of text formatting properties. Many address international contexts, particularly East Asian and bidirectional text.
CSS3 module: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-text-20030226/
CSS home page: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
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