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                        <h2 class="entry-header">Progress in Lyon - TPAC 2010</h2>
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                              <p>W3C met in Lyon, France 1-5 November for an annual W3C gathering we
call "TPAC" (for Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee, pronounced
"T-pack").  This was my first TPAC.  Based on what I saw and what I
heard it was a success – but with room for improvement.</p>

<h2>Overlapping meetings – overlapping objectives</h2>

<p>TPAC consists of several different meetings:</p>

<ol>
<li>Working group face to face meetings - where groups resolve
coordination issues in a flurry of activity</li>
<li>Technical Plenary day – when we air concerns and look to the
future </li>
<li>Advisory Committee meeting - strategic planning for W3C with the
Membership</li>
<li>Hallway conversations - the key community-building ritual</li>
</ol>

<h3>Working group face to face meetings</h3>

<p>This is the heart of TPAC; the reason that people come.  Overall I
was quite satisfied with participation and progress.  With over 300
attendees and over 25 Working Groups meeting face to face, were
roughly on par with years past and there was a good deal of technical
progress. I could not participate in all of the working group
meetings, but I did sit in on several of them.  I had a good set of
discussions with the accessibility team; and had several off-line
meetings with the HTML5 chairs.</p>

<p>I wish more people could have attended, but we all suffer from the
tyrannies of the calendar.  The week after TPAC was a Semantic
technologies conference in Shanghai, and that undoubtedly lowered
participation from our strong Semantic Web aficionados and working
groups.  Also there was an IETF meeting in Beijing which had a modest
impact.</p>

<h3>Technical Plenary Day</h3>

<p>I chaired the program committee for technical plenary day and felt
really good about the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/11/TPAC/PlenaryAgenda
">agenda</a> the committee produced. Well, until the critical blogs
came.  Actually, even after the critical blogs came.</p>

<p>The program committee objective was a balanced <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/11/TPAC/PlenaryAgenda
">agenda</a>. We had talks about the Semantic Web, IETF, XML
convergence with HTML, and accessibility. We had a session on
different use cases and perspectives for television broadcast. There
was also quite a diversity in Lightning Talks: Emotions, the Social
Web, Speech, Semantic Web, Relational and RDF, 3D, Points of Interest,
XML Performance, Privacy, and Philosophy.  So I think we achieved
balance. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/11/03-tpac-
minutes">plenary minutes</a> are public.</p>

<p>Underneath that, we examined our work from different points of
view.  The first panel, organized by Noah Mendelsohn was about
“integration”.  We looked above the level of a working group into how
pieces fit together from a broader product perspective. W3C is
designing an Open Web Platform with a lot of moving parts, and
discussions such as those at TPAC help ensure that the parts work
together.</p>

<p>We devoted a great deal of attention to HTML.  With HTML5
approaching Last Call (May 2011) and many features already in
browsers, our attention paralleled the industry's current level of
enthusiasm, making this an appropriate focus for this TPAC.  Many
people have different perspectives about HTML5 – but many perspectives
will only come into fruition at .next. HTML Working Group co-Chair
Paul Cotton led a great panel which examined different views of what
comes after HTML5.  We also saw lots of eye candy – HTML5 coming to
life in real implementations.</p>

<p>I also want to mention how vibrant our community is. Sixteen
lightning talks and a panel of diverse views on Web and television
suggested some new areas for W3C attention in the near- and medium-
term.</p>

<p>Then came the <a href="http://saxonica.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2010/11/4/4671786.html
">blogs</a>. Michael Kay and colleagues made several good points abut
what was missing from the plenary agenda – but in reality one day
cannot possibly address every single aspect of W3C.  My conclusion in
the posting that I made to that conversation was "Let's use this
thread as a prompt to work together so that the next TPAC agenda is
more representative of all the work going on at the Consortium."
Always room for improvement.</p>

<h3>Advisory Committee Meeting</h3>

<p>W3C's Advisory Committee (AC) also met to discuss the strategic
direction of the organization. I have previously blogged (<a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/06/the_mission_of_w3c.html
">June</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/06/best_place_new_standards.html
">June again</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/07/the_core_mission_of_w3c.html
">July</a>) about our organizational vision task forces. Those task
forces have completed their work and we reviewed the results.  W3C
management has approved 17 new projects that address technical
priorities (new work in privacy, WebID, security, testing),
participation and inclusion (easier to bring standards work, better
support for a diverse global community), and financial matters.  For
the latter I reported that the last several months had seen an
increase in new members for W3C.</p>

<p>Thursday and Friday the W3C Advisory Board (AB) met for a "post-
game analysis" of the AC meeting, diving into the task force
recommendations. One piece of advice from the AB was to support our
current policy of having dues paid in three currencies; even as they
advised that this should be reviewed on a regular basis.</p>

<h3>Hallway Conversations</h3>

<p>For many people, it is the casual or unexpected meeting or
discussion at a break that can have the greatest impact.  I can't
comment on the thousands of discussions that took place, but let me at
least mention the most visible and formal of these "informal"
discussions.  Thursday night Marie-Claire Forgue organized a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/11/TPAC/meetup-Lyon
">meetup</a> with the Lyon developer community, providing an
opportunity to showcase W3C and Web activities in Lyon.  Over 200
people attended session and together enjoyed practical and whimsical
advances in technology, systems, and games.  A good capstone for a
great event.</p>
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