QH D5.2 Handouts for W3C Web technology

Project Manager: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
Author of this document: Michael Wilson<m.d.wilson@rl.ac.uk>

Created: 8 July 2003. Last updated: 8 July 2003.

Table of Content:

• Introduction
• The Handouts
• Conclusion
• Deviation from plan

Introduction

This report describes the handouts designed to promote W3C web technology at events and exhibitions organised by W3C or the national and regional offices of W3C.

The Handouts

As part of the W3C process, Advisory Committee (AC) meetings are held in the middle and end of each year. At each of these AC Meetings statements of the current state of each of the W3C Activities are produced as web pages by the W3C staff responsible for the Activity. In the past, the W3C Communications Team have taken these Activity statements and produced one or two side handouts in PDF that can be printed by W3C or W3C Office staff around the world and used to promote future W3C recommendations at events, exhibitions or to intersted parties.

The look and feel of these handouts has become dated, so a new template has been designed for use in their creation:

• MS-Word template - single sided
• MS-Word template - double sided
• old MS-Word template - double sided

These handouts serve a purpose for a technically centered audience, but they do not present the work of W3C to a general audience who wish to know what W3C can do for their industry, business or market sector.

To fill this gap, within the Question How project, W3C has analysed the standard industrial market sectors and the technologies that it recommends for web usage, concluding which technologies are most significant to each sector, as shown in the table below.

W3C has then produced a handout for each of these sectors to complement those already produced for each activity.

• Entertainment.
• Medical.
• web site builders.
• e-commerce
• on-line publishing
• Broadcasting News.
• Engineering.
• Mobile.
• Government.

Conclusion

The handouts are available as they are, and have been designed to be both updatable as technology changes, and tailorable to local languages as required.

Deviations from plan

None.

The QH project has provided the necessary resources to develop each of these handouts and to make them available to the offices for public presentation.