31 October: W3C is pleased to announce W3C Day at Keio (in Japanese) to be held on 29 November at Keio University Mita Campus in Tokyo, Japan. Team members from all three W3C host sites, INRIA, Keio, and MIT, will participate in the event. Marie-Claire Forgue, Tatsuya Hagino, José Kahan, Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Chris Lilley, and Nobuo Saito will give talks.
29 October: On 1 November, Martin J. Dürst presented The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): An Overview and Web Architecture: From URI to the Semantic Web at the 2001 Web-based Technology Standard Conference in Seoul, Korea. On 15 November, Bert Bos gave the closing keynote at the annual congress of the Dutch SGML/XML Users Group in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. On 15 November, Tim Berners-Lee presented Technology in the 21st Century at the Cambridge Forum in Cambridge, MA, USA. On 15 and 16 November, Wendy Chisholm and Charles McCathieNevile speak at OZeWAI 2001 in Melbourne, Australia. On 20 November, Philipp Hoschka will give a keynote titled The Future of Streaming Media on the Web at Streaming Media Japan 2001 in Tokyo, Japan. On 21 November, Kazuhiro Kitagawa presents Device Independence and the Semantic Web (in Japanese) at Internet World Japan 2001 in Chiba, Japan. On 22 November, Ivan Herman presents W3C Architectural Recommendations at the XML Belux conference in Mechelen, Belgium.
29 October: Registration is open for EuroWeb 2001, the first of a new series of regional conferences endorsed by IW3C2. Supported by the W3C Italian Office, EuroWeb is to be held 18-20 December in Venice, Italy. Representing the W3C Team, Steven Pemberton, Rigo Wenning, and Massimo Marchiori give tutorials and Yasuyuki Hirakawa and Tatsuya Hagino present a paper. The conference focus is "The Web in Public Administration."
14 November: The SVG Open / Carto.net Developers Conference will be held in Zurich, Switzerland on 15-17 July 2002. Co-sponsored by W3C, SVG Open is a platform for SVG developers to share ideas, examples and implementations. Presenters are asked to send a 400-800 word abstract prior to 15 January 2002. For more information, please read the call for papers, contact Ivan Herman or Chris Lilley of the W3C Team, or consult the conference Web site.
13 October: W3C has opened its patent policy process for continuing public dialog. Free software and open source authorities Eben Moglen, Bruce Perens, and Larry Rosen are joining the Patent Policy Working Group (PPWG) as invited experts. The PPWG has launched a public home page. A second public Last Call for the W3C Patent Policy Framework is planned. Please refer to the next steps announcement from Danny Weitzner, PPWG Chair.
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