W3C in a Changing World

W3C was founded to lead the Web to its full potential. It started with three technologies that made the Web a huge success: HTTP, HTML and URI. Meanwhile 1500+ participants work in 60+ working groups on different aspects of web technologies. Beside the fact that the power of computers and networks has been increased several 1000 times web technologies have empowered people to communicate, exchange ideas, form communities much easier than ever before. Instead of praising W3C for all the wonderful things it did (what it would deserve) this talk will give some examples on how W3C interacts with the outside world. Topics will be from volunteer translators, evangelists to competing efforts in web standards.