The UWA Working Group focuses on extending the Web to enable distributed applications of many kinds of devices including sensors and effectors. Application areas include home monitoring and control, home entertainment, office equipment, mobile and automotive. (more details).
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Minutes for 17 April — 1 May 2008
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 17 April 2008 see http://www.w3.org/2008/04/17-uwawg-minutes.html.
Feel free to send your comments to public-uwa@w3.org.
Geolocation on the Mobile Web — 23 April 2008
Dave Raggett presents Geolocation on the Mobile Web (pdf) in WWW2008 on 23 April 2008, in the W3C Track session "The Web on the Move". The talk covers legal aspects, sensing techniques, examples of location based services, and the potential for work on standards.
Minutes for 10 April 2008 — 17 April 2008
The minutes are now available for the UWA working group teleconference for 10 April 2008 see http://www.w3.org/2008/04/10-uwawg-minutes.html.
Feel free to send your comments to public-uwa@w3.org.
Documents
The UWA replaces the Device Independence Activity and inherit its documents which range from Working Group Notes all the way to full W3C Recommendations. See the UWA documents page. Our roadmap describes each of our current work items and is also used to help with scheduling the weekly teleconferences. We have a publically accessible wiki together with a public mailing list and archive.
How to give feedback?
Feedback on UWA documents is very welcome on the public-uwa@w3.org list (archive). To subscribe to this list, Send an email to public-uwa-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the email subject header. To unsubscribe, send an email to the same address with the word unsubscribe in the email subject header. For additional help, consult the W3C's public email list pages. To contact the Chair, email Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>.
How to join the UWA Working Group?
The UWA WG conducts its technical work primarily in public, but with recourse to W3C Member restricted channels when appropriate. Participation is open to W3C Member organizations and invited experts. Please ask your W3C Advisory Committee Representative to add you to the Working Group using this form, but before you do so please ensure you have a W3C user account. If your employer isn't yet a W3C Member, here are some details on how to become one. If you are working independently or are an academic affiliated with an institution of higher learning, then you may also be able to join as an Invited Expert. Please read the Policy for Approval of Invited Experts before contacting the Chair and Team contact.
Reasons for joining
One reason is to contribute to work on standards for content adaptation as a basis for reducing the costs for supporting Web applications on a wide range of devices with differing capabilities and browsers. Another reason is to work on standards for authoring distributed Web applications across multiple devices, e.g. for remote control or remote access to services on those devices in ways that scale across rapidly evolving networking technologies.