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Thursday 10 May 2007
Blue Sky: Web Browser, Standards and Interop Summit, XTech Paris
In Paris this May 15th, XTech 2007, Molly.Com, Inc. and Useful Information Company have combined resources to join industry influentials and peers for the first annual Browser, Standards and Interop Summit in parallel with the XTech conference.
The Summit will consist of an open meeting of as many browser vendors, standards advocates, W3C and related standards supporters as we can gather. We will also have workgroups and an open mike session so everyone can be heard.
The day will be open to observation for interested journalists (particularly bloggers, podcasters and videocasters) based on available space. Participants will include representatives from Opera Software, Mozilla, Microsoft Corporation and others. It’s an opportunity to make voices heard in a more neutral, open discussion outside the vendor or standards groups themselves.
As Web developers and designers are all too aware, a lot of our effort goes into skirting round the inconsistencies in web browsers. We care about giving our users the best experience possible, so we take the time. A lot of time.
We can save a lot of that time if we also tackle the root causes: unclear, problematic standards and related issues with browser interoperability. While standards can provide the palette from which the next revisions of browsers take features, interoperability work can fix things in the near term, and for the future, getting us back to the original platform and user agent agnostic vision of the Web.
Both Useful Information Company and Molly.Com, Inc. are splitting the event room cost. Vendors and participants will be required to provide their own travel and lodging, there will be no sponsorships taken from anyone although volunteer opportunities to assist with the Summit in a number of ways, such as providing refreshments, are available.
- When: Tuesday 15 June 2007
- Location: Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel / XTech, Paris, France
- Room: TBA
- Cost: FREE
- Time: 09:00 - 17:00, interested attendees are welcome to join at any point during the day
Hope to see you there! Please do let us know via comments if you’re interested.
Filed under: policies, standards, software, web design and development, conferences, announcement, browsers
Posted by: Molly | 7:31 am |
May 10th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Cool! I should be there around 11AM. (I have some early flight from Oslo that I wanted to change to Monday, but that became tricky.)
May 10th, 2007 at 8:17 am
Hmm. I am arriving in Paris around 14:00 so I should be able to get there sometime in the afternoon.
May 10th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Awesome! Come any time. It’s an informal day. We will also likely organize a dinner of some sort.
Anne: I’m very excited you’ll be able to attend.
Jgraham: Definitely come on in. The room location will be available at the information desk by that time.
May 10th, 2007 at 9:53 am
Not sure I’ll be able to stay the whole day, but I’m hoping to be there…
May 10th, 2007 at 10:06 am
It will be great to see you there Derek. We’ve been hoping to do something like this for a long time, so it is great we’ve got it off the ground.
May 10th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Derek! AweSOME! Any time yuo can come on down and hang out will be welcome.
May 10th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
Is any CEO, or head of browser department going to be there. And what about Safari, Netscape, Camino, and other Gecko browsers.
May 11th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Dammit, so near, but still too far…
May 11th, 2007 at 3:33 am
Would love to have come and covered this, but unfortunately I’ve let my passport expire
- Neil.
May 11th, 2007 at 4:18 am
[…] On the first day of the conference, Molly and Edd have organised the first annual Browser, Standards and Interop Summit to run all day in parallel to the conference tracks. Molly describes the day thusly: The day will be open to observation for interested journalists (particularly bloggers, podcasters and videocasters) based on available space. Participants will include representatives from Opera Software, Mozilla, Microsoft Corporation and others. It’s an opportunity to make voices heard in a more neutral, open discussion outside the vendor or standards groups themselves. […]
May 11th, 2007 at 6:05 am
cssProdigy: Our CTO, Håkon Wilum Lie (father of CSS no less), will be there for parts of the day (he has tutorial commitments some of the day), and also our Chief Standards Officer, Charles McCathieNevile, Anne van Kesteren who works on standards at Opera, Arve Bersvendsen who works in our WebApps team and myself who leads up our web opening team. Unfortunately as we organised this late in the day, our head of Opera Desktop and Mini isn’t flying in until later that night, but he will be around the conference to speak to for the rest of the week. We do have a good cross section of technical people however.
May 11th, 2007 at 10:08 am
I am from Paris, it is really cool to be there ! I will be there…
May 11th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Hey Molly. I’ll be there, with our mobile platforms expert, Jason, whom I’m sure you remember. Nick says I have to have a chat with you when I see you.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I’ll land at CDG at 11:30 and will then head to the conference venue.
May 11th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
A little too far for me, but I hope you all have a wonderful time!
May 12th, 2007 at 1:28 am
Darn,
And me living and working in the Paris Region and having this very day a day-long meeting.
(insert expletives here)
May 13th, 2007 at 2:35 am
Hi Molly,
I will be at XTech with my W3C HTML WG staff contact hat.
That will be lovely to see you again.
May 13th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Molly, Karl, Anne, Henri: I’ll be there. It’s actually one block away from home
.
I’ll wear a Firefox T-shirt, of course, and I’d be willing to discuss what you guys think about Silverlight.
May 13th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
See you there Molly
May 13th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Ohmigod! what a great time we’re going to have. The semantic pedantics meet and greet.
A note to Tristan if only because I’ve not seen you in a long time: I’m so happy to see you again. You are one of my true Mozilla heroes.
I’m at the conference hotel and hope to hear from anyone in the vincinty who can come to visit on Tuesday!
May 13th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
Hi Molly
I’m in town and would love to stop by and meet some of the local devs and of course say hello to you.
thanks for setting this up
May 13th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Ted, awesome, OMG it’ll be great to see you. Looking forward to Tuesday big-time.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:42 am
/me *blushes*
May 14th, 2007 at 1:50 am
Well, I only found out about this today (through Anne’s blog) and would love to join, especially since I have a day off tomorrow. Too bad I can’t use the Thalys on such a short notice. Anyway, have fun you lot
May 14th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Is Microsoft footing the bill on any of this?
May 15th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Shelley: No. The room was paid for directly by me and Edd Dumbill. No money came from any vendor whatsoever, although we did get some t-shirts n’ stickers from Opera and Mozilla.
May 16th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Hi Molly,
I could only drop by the Novotel at 16:35. When I asked the XTech hostesses about this summit, your name didn’t ring a bell. Too bad. :-/ I had a peek then at The Papernet presentation by Aaron Cope and later came across Andy Budd who was kind enough to tell me the whereabouts of this impromptu summit. Unfortunately the meeting had ended a while ago so I hung around in the hotel for another hour hoping to see you or Tristan, but to no avail. So I made my way back home.
See you at @media London.
November 4th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Hey Molly, how was the conference? I would have gone but too bad it was this past May. Can you check out my site and let me know how I can do a better job of marketing it. Are you going to Adtech this week?
November 11th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
The semantic pedantics meet and greet.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Hi
It’s actually one block away from home,,,
Thanks & Regards
November 20th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Yes paris is the best ! ! !
December 1st, 2007 at 12:23 pm
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December 3rd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
So I made my way back home.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Hi, I’m really worry , I found this page so late
Maybe next time…
December 15th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Hi Molly I like you..
December 15th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Paris … Muaaa
December 20th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
I am not Lucky
for this June. I would so much participate it for Kurdish Translations of Standards.
J’ai pas de chance, on plus j’étais à Paris. J’ai eu un probléme et je n’ai pu venir. Je voulais participer pour le côté de traduction du standards.
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January 28th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Thanks for the article.
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March 17th, 2008 at 7:25 am
thanx for article
March 20th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Molly! That’s a great article. A note to Tristan if only because I’ve not seen you in a long time: I’m so happy to see you again. You are one of my true Mozilla heroes. Unbelievable!
March 30th, 2008 at 10:26 am
thanks
April 1st, 2008 at 1:23 am
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April 8th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
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April 8th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
interesting, thanks
April 9th, 2008 at 8:26 am
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am
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