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About the Working Group

The Internationalization (I18N) Working Group is part of the W3C Internationalization Activity.

Aims: Provide internationalization advice to other groups developing Web standards, and review their specifications (mostly W3C groups, but we also get involved in Unicode, IDN, IETF and other work).

Develop education and outreach materials to make the internationalization aspects of W3C technology better understood and more widely and consistently used by content authors and implementers.

For more details, see the Working Group Charter.

Mailing Lists

The working group uses all of these mailing lists.

There is also a member-only list [ArchiveMO] which is used for group administravia and any member-confidential topics.

Meetings

Teleconferences

The working group holds a weekly teleconference to discuss work items for about one hour.

Agenda builder

Day: Thursday
Time: 15.00 UTC/GMT (Convert to your timezone)

Agenda: is sent to the member-i18n-core list (archiveMO) . To request an agenda item, send an email to the member list with "agenda+" at the start of the subject.

Phone: +1-617-761-6200, conference code 4186# (Zakim teleconference bridge)

You can also use Zakim-SIP to dial in via VoiP.

IRC: connect an IRC client via the W3C IRC server (irc.w3.org:6665, channel #i18n).

To use IRC via the Web, go to http://www.w3.org/2001/01/cgi-irc (invent a nickname, use #i18n channel)

Minutes:

Since May 2012, see the www-international archive, and search for 'minutes' in the subject.

Apr 2011 - May 2012, see the public-i18n-core mail archive.

Aug 2008 - Apr 2011, see the Agenda builder wiki page.

Before Aug 2008, see the public-i18n-core mail archive.

For earlier minutes, see this archiveMO.

Zakim IRC bot: http://www.w3.org/2001/12/zakim-irc-bot.html

Face-to-face meetings

  • Next meeting: Shenzhen, China (TPAC), November 2013

Past FTF meetings:

  • Lyon, France (TPAC), 29/30 October 2012
  • 31 October - 1 November, Santa Clara, USA
    Held during the W3C TPAC.
  • 1-2 November 2010, Lyon, France
    Held during the W3C TPAC.
  • 2-3 November 2009, Santa Clara, USA
    Held during the W3C TPAC.
  • 20-21 October 2008, Cannes, France
    Held during the W3C TPAC.
  • 9-10 November 2007, Boston, USA
    Held during the W3C TPAC.
  • 2-3 March 2006, Cannes, France.
    Held during the W3C Technical Plenary. [MinutesMO]
  • 28 February-1 March 2005, Boston, USA
    Held during the W3C Technical Plenary. [Minutes]
  • 4-5 March 2004, Cannes, France.
    Held during the W3C Technical Plenary. [Minutes]
  • 3-4 March 2003, Boston, Massachussetts, USA.
    Held during the W3C Technical Plenary. [Minutes]
  • 22-23 November 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.[Minutes]

Useful Links

  • W3C Teleconference Calendar
  • Zakim Bridge Monitor
  • Zakim User Instructions
  • Zakim IRC bot
  • World Clock Meeting Planner

Work in Progress

Review and discussion:

The group formally reviews W3C and some other specifications and sends comments. They also work informally with other W3C groups to address internationalization issues.

You can see what reviews are coming up, and link to comments from previous reviews from the:

Review Radar

Outreach and support:

  • Internationalization techniques for content developers working with HTML, CSS and other W3C technologies.
  • Various technical drafts on internationalization topics.
  • Articles and tutorials to help people understand and use international aspects of W3C and Web technologies.
  • Test pages relating to support of international features on the Web, and summaries of test results.

The pipeline lists the specifications, articles and other documents that are currently in development.

Resource Pipeline

Specifications and WG Notes:

In the 2012-2013 charter the Working Group will develop a specification entitled Encoding.

For other Notes and Recommendations produced by the group, see the list.

Miscellaneous documents

The internationalization wiki is used for collaborative development of i18n articles and for gathering information about feature requirements.

i18n wiki

Miscellaneous working documents:

  • Article development process
  • Article etc style guide
  • Article etc template
  • XHTML Techniques style guide
  • XMLSpec Techniques style guide
  • XMLSpec Techniques DTD documentation
  • XMLSpec Techniques DTD; i18n-elements.mod; i18n-extensions.mod
  • XMLSpec style guide
  • XMLSpec-i18n DTD documentation
  • W3C Technical Reports and Publications
  • FAQ Question ideas

How to participate

The Working Group (WG) is always looking for additional participants, to work on a very varied range of topics and interests. The group needs a variety of people with different skills, from technical authoring to specialised knowledge of particular technologies.

See a list of participation benefits for you and your organization.

See some examples of what WG members do within the group.

Working group members are responsible for the development of the group's deliverables, so some minimum commitment is preferred, but we are flexible about this.

We would expect you to keep up to date with the discussions on the public-i18n-core and www-international lists and respond in a timely manner when required.

We would like you to participate in weekly teleconferences and in face to face meetings as scheduled or send regrets to list.

We would like you participate in reviews and discussions of documents or specifications where you have an interest or expertise.

Participants in the working group are expected to observe the requirements of the W3C Process for Working Groups.

Join

If you are unable to make the required commitment to join the working group, you can still contribute in a number of ways. You can also simply follow the work by accessing the Internationalization Web site, the public mailing lists and archives, and all public documents.

You are also encouraged to join the Internationalization Interest Group.

Current WG participantsMO

What WG members do

Working Group members contribute in one or more of the following ways.

  • Participate in discussions on the various mailing lists and during teleconferences.
  • Review articles prior to publication and send comments.
  • Review W3C specifications for internationalization issues and forward to the group
  • Coordinate notification and discussion of review issues with other Working Groups.
  • Provide information about language or script usage in response to our feedback requests.
  • Write articles and plan and discuss content for forthcoming articles.
  • Develop or review best practices, requirements, guidelines and other Working Group Notes for content authors, implementers, or specification developers.
  • Help maintain topic and techniques indexes to the information on the site.
  • Develop tests to help implementors and better understand what internationalization features are supported in browsers.
  • Help respond to feedback on articles, etc.

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