The W3C Spanish Office organizes the "W3C Standards Tour" around different Universities in Spain from the 3rd to the 26th of November. The goal of this tour is to make known W3C work, to establish contact with researchers at Universities in Spain and to promote the use of W3C Technologies between students, mainly students of technical Universities.
The Tour consists in a route with an environmental friendly bus, which will make stops of one or two days. The bus has access facilities for people with disabilities, 14 multimedia equipments, where demos of W3C Technologies will be available, projection equipment, videoconference and Internet connectivity via satellite. At the same time, conferences about W3C Technologies and meetings with researchers will take place at the host Universities.
Calendar
| November 2004 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| 1 | 2 | 3 Gijón |
4 Bilbao |
5 Bilbao |
6 | 7 |
| 8 Zaragoza |
9 Barcelona |
10 Barcelona |
11 Valencia |
12 Valencia |
13 | 14 |
| 15 Sevilla |
16 Sevilla |
17 Madrid |
18 Madrid |
19 Madrid |
20 | 21 |
| 22 Salamanca |
23 | 24 A Coruña |
25 | 26 Oviedo |
27 | 28 |
| 29 | 30 | |||||
The Prize
In addition to the Tour, the First W3C Prize on Web Standardization will take place. This First National Prize is an initiative of the W3C Spanish Office to promote W3C Standards use and adoption within Spanish Universities. The prize will award the best prototype that, in an innovative way, integrates any of the W3C Technologies in the following fields: Semantic Web, Device Independence, Voice and Multimodal Interaction.
A group of ten prototypes will be selected as finalists. Members of the W3C Team will evaluate the finalist prototypes and will award the best among them. Finally, the winner will receive an applied research grant to develop a full project based on his/her awarded prototype.