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We’re excited to announce the TPAC Hackathon 2025: Kobe Edition, taking place 11th November from 19:00 JST @ the Kobe ICC! Join fellow people of TPAC for an evening of quick prototyping, bold ideas, and the shared goal of improving the Web. Participate solo or in pairs. All backgrounds and skill levels welcome. Attendance is free, with food and prizes included. Can’t say too much, but we’ve heard through the grapevine there might be LEGO sets for several winning teams. Space is limited, so secure a spot for yourself and your teammates now:  https://lnkd.in/e3JW5rBq Many thanks to Elena Lape for leading this event and to our sponsors Holopin and GoDaddy #developers #w3cTPAC #Japan #webdevelopers

WCAG 2.2 is now ISO/IEC 40500:2025. The formal recognition enables more countries to formally adopt WCAG 2.2. ISO/IEC 40500:2025 is free from the ISO website. Supporting resources and translations are free from the W3C website. You can read more and share our press release https://lnkd.in/gugUGknt #accessibility

On the #W3C blog Seth Dobbs positions our new logo & tagline as one step towards achieving key strategic goals by raising awareness. "While the web has had and will continue to have a significant impact on the global economy, ultimately our mission is far more than that, we make the web work — for everyone. In honor of #WorldStandardsDay please celebrate the impact of our work for an open web. Share with your network of contacts the many ways in which you can support us." https://lnkd.in/eSvkG_iW

We are hiring! We have an immediate #job opening: Data Strategist We are seeking a remote full-time staff member to lead our data on the web standardization work. This position is open in Asia. The role also includes continuing our efforts to represent, discover, query, and exchange data using web technologies. https://lnkd.in/e8m8sxjc #hiring #w3c

I am delighted to share that today we released a new logo for W3C on the same day we celebrate our 31st anniversary! A new logo, and a new video that introduces it and us! Particular thanks to Lesley Guthrie who designed the logo, and to Coralie Mercier and the W3C Comm Team who worked on the project. As we all can clearly see, W3C benefited immensely from Lesley’s design skill and she was, as ever, a pleasure to work with. Great thanks too to the W3C Branding Task Force which included Chris Needham, Avneesh Singh and Elena Lape for their wisdom and guidance.  We have a new logo but our commitment is unchanged: making the web work — for everyone. This logo replaces one that the organization has used for 30 years. But in 2023, W3C became a public-interest, non-profit organization, and so the new logo signals that we have become a new type of organization — one that wants to re-engage with our community, and reach new audiences. Last - a big thank you to our membership and community for committing to our mission and vision, and for 31 years of positive impact. Read more in our press release: https://lnkd.in/gunfsD-s

Dreaming of a global website? Translation alone won’t cut it! In this video, we break down the fundamental concepts of making the web truly global. Watch: https://lnkd.in/gYEGFJ8t Dive into the key distinctions between internationalization (#i18n) and localization (#l10n), and explore what truly matters beyond language, from character encoding and right-to-left designs to culturally adapted formats for dates, numbers, and names.

We are celebrating our 31st anniversary today! We have adopted a new logo to signal positive changes. Our refreshed logo reflects the new type of organization we have become — one that wants to re-engage with our community, and reach new audiences. You can read more at: https://lnkd.in/eaeQqd74 As part of our new logo launch we produced a video. The video is about our strengths and the values that we stand for. We bring together worldwide stakeholders. Together we develop open standards for a World Wide Web that connects and empowers humanity. New logo, same mission and commitment: making the web work – for everyone. https://lnkd.in/ennQ6-q7

It is with great sadness that we learned yesterday of the peaceful passing of Gregg Kellogg last Saturday. In the last 14 years, as a W3C Invited Expert, Gregg co-edited 9 standards and a dozen other specs. He also implemented them all and contributed test suites that #w3c groups are still using. His implication in the JSON-LD Working Group, that he co-chaired, was instrumental to the success of JSON-LD. For all this, but also his friendliness and good nature, he will be dearly missed. https://lnkd.in/exNKWBSf

On the W3C blog Seth Dobbs gave an update on our TPAC Inclusion and Invited Expert Support funds. For the 8th year in a row W3C has coordinated an Inclusion Fund for our TPAC meeting to reduce barriers for participants who are contributing positively to the work of W3C groups, but who require financial support to be more actively involved, This year we also added a fund to help support Invited Experts in particular editors, chairs and those in elected bodies. Many thanks to our Sponsors: W3C, GoDaddy, Igalia, Microsoft. We were able to allocate funding in a 50/50 split (13 awardees in the TPAC Inclusion Fund, 13 awardees in the Invited Expert Support Fund). This year we were able to fund almost 4 times as many awards than all previous 7 years combined! Sheila Moussavi, Darya Projects (PWE CG), Hidde de Vries, Logius (AB), Matthew Tylee Atkinson, Samsung Electronics(TAG), and Tamsin Ewing, CPACC,(W3C Team) served in the selection committee, and W3C thanks them for their support. The initial screening was conducted by Team members, Coralie Mercier, Christine Gefaell and Sylvia Cadena. We want to encourage donations and sponsors to boost their financial contributions for the continuation of these efforts, so that we are able to open our work to more people, aiming ultimately to address the representation and participation gaps that prevent the diversity of the whole world to be reflected in web standards. We invite you to contribute generously. https://lnkd.in/eVkZFqcP

W3C's Richard Ishida has been named as a member of the new Universal Acceptance Expert Working group at ICANN. "Universal Acceptance ensures that all valid domain names and related email addresses, regardless of length, language, or script, can be used in all Internet-enabled applications, devices, and systems.” See more at: https://lnkd.in/eKVvDJZj