W3C Developers: Meet the Technical Architecture Group (TAG)

Hi everyone!

I am delighted to officially announce our next W3C Developers meetup!

We might have one or two short talks before the TAG session. More information coming soon.

Part 1 - Crosscloud -- a SoLiD effort to redecentralize the Web

Andrei Sambra will talk about Crosscloud -- an exciting new project (lead by Sir Tim Berners-Lee) that involves redecentralizing the Web, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.

Crosscloud gives users the freedom to choose where their data resides and who is allowed to access it by decoupling content from the application itself. Because applications are decoupled from the data they produce, users will be able to avoid vendor lock-in by seamlessly switching the apps and personal data storage servers, without losing any data or social connections.

Crosscloud also enables developers to easily innovate by creating new apps or improving current apps, all while reusing existing data created by previous apps.

Part 2 - Meet the TAG

The W3C TAG (Technical Architecture Group http://w3.org/tag ) is in charge of coordinating cross-technology architecture and the principles of web architecture at the World Wide Web Consortium - in other words, it’s kind of a technical steering group for web standards. We’re having a face to face meeting in September in Cambridge (hosted at W3C’s offices at MIT).

As part of our time here we'll be holding a Q&A panel session (followed by drinks & snacks) on the evening of September 14th where we can let you know what we're up to and get feedback from the web developer community about your priorities.

Come along find out what we're working on, get a heads-up of new Web standards and technologies in development and air your web tech pet peeves. Key topics on the agenda will be the rise (and rise) of https and web security in general, API design, privacy and browser fingerprinting, and the ongoing “extensible web” work.

Cheers,

Guillaume