Karl Dubost

W3C Role

I joined W3C in July 2000 as Conformance Manager. My work at W3C includes, but not only, these following duties

• Keeping a liaison with the Web community (mailing-lists, fora, WASP, Openweb, Maccaws, and others) as large to explain W3C technologies and to understand what is missing in terms of educational materials.
• Checking on W3C transition calls that some minimum criterias of quality have been followed for editing a specification.
• Encouraging and explaining the QA Framework to W3C Working Groups. Maybe you could start with QA Framework Primer & User Scenarios.

Past Roles

From March 2007 to November 2007: HTML Working Group, interim staff contact.

From August 2005 to September 2007: QA Activity Lead and QA IG chair.

From 2001 to August 2005: QA Working Group, staff contact, co-chairing with Lofton Henderson and chairing.

How to contact me?

Do not send personal email except if you are sure that your questions can't be addressed on a public mailing-lists. Don't forget that your questions are often questions that someone else could have, then it's always better to share with others.

Mailing-lists

• public-evangelist@w3.org is the publicly archived, public forum to discuss W3C Technologies and how to create tutorials, surveys, how to teach them.
• www-validator@w3.org is the publicly archived, public forum to discuss W3C Technologies the validity of your Web page. If you have a question on the nature of your code, you should check on this list. Please read/search first the archives. It's very likely that your question has already been answered.
• www-qa@w3.org is the publicly archived, public forum to discuss W3C's Quality Assurance. It's a rather technical mailing-list which will address some of your questions regarding the way we are writing W3C technical specifications.
• w3c-translators-fr@w3.org is the publicly archived, public forum to discuss W3C's translation in French.
• For any problem with W3C's website and services, please read the W3C Webmaster FAQ before contacting the web/systems team.

IRC

I'm often on IRC too. Usually:

• #qa on W3C IRC server (nick: karl)
• #validator on Freenode (nick: karlcow or karlUshi)
• #openweb on Freenode in French

Publications

• Common User Agent Problems
• My Web site is standard! and yours?
• Web Standards Switch
• Why the QA Matrix in RDF?
• More about Custom DTDs

QA Framework in participation with the QA WG

• QA Framework Primer & User Scenarios
• The QA Handbook
• Specification Guidelines
• Variability in Specifications
• QA Specification Guidelines - Implementation Conformance Statement
• Test Development FAQ
• QA Wiki

Talks

See the list of W3C Talks

Bio

I hold in 1995 a DEA (Msc) in Astrophysics and Spatial Techniques at Meudon Observatory after a BSc in Physics at Montréal University, Québec.

I worked for various companies as web designer for Net-Partners, Calvacom and spent three years as webmaster/system manager/project manager in the education field at IUFM de Paris. I have been a technical director for a french Web agency: Angie Interactive.

I have also translated several W3C Recommendations in french as a volunteer.

Private Karl

I'm coming from a region at the north-west of France called Normandie. I have created a website about this region: Normandie Web (A whole site about Normandy. French only). I have also lived seven years in Montréal, Canada (1990-1993 and 2001-2005).

I'm living now in Japan, in Shimokitazawa (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo)