speaker for W3C Distributed Authoring Symposium?

["Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@liege.ICS.UCI.EDU>]

My officemate, Jim Whitehead (ejw@ics.uci.edu), is organizing a symposium
in the Bay Area about distributed authoring on the Web.  He is looking
for someone who can speak about what is needed for a server like
Apache to support PUT and version control capabilities, or someone
who would like to speak about "what the Apache Group plans to do to
support such capabilities in the future."  Is anyone strongly interested
in this topic or would like to speak at a W3C symposium on behalf
of Apache (assuming we could come up with an actual plan for support
of those features)?

.....Roy

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Message-Id: <ae84786809021004007c@[128.195.21.209]>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 15:23:01 -0700
To: fielding@ics.uci.edu
From: Jim Whitehead <ej...@ics.uci.edu>
Subject: Symposium announcement

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

World Wide Web Consortium
Symposium

"Distributed Authoring: Present, and Future"

December 4-5, 1996

Sunnyvale Hilton Inn, Sunnyvale, CA

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SCOPE

The past two years have witnessed the development of a new class of
distributed authoring tools which allow remote editing followed by a network
save. Unlike existing tools which save their work to the local filesystem
and ignore how web content is made accessible, distributed authoring systems
directly employ the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to put web content on
a server. This allows web content to be edited hundreds or thousands of
miles away from the server which distributes it, and gives users the ease of
pushbutton publishing.

Distributed authoring tools have many applications. Internet Service
Providers currently sell web page hosting services where a customer, using
an easy-to-use WYSIWYG tool on their personal computer, edits their home
page which is stored far away on the provider's host system. Within a
corporate intranet, employees are starting to use intranet-enabled word
processing and spreadsheet tools to save their work directly to a
departmental web server.

This symposium is an information-rich opportunity to be educated by key
technology developers about this exciting new class of web application.
Institutions with intranets will discover how distributed authoring tools
can help manage their web sites, and will become plugged-in to the dramatic
impact of the emerging intranet-enabled applications. Internet Service
Providers can learn about existing distributed authoring tools, and how they
can earn extra income or provide value-added service to their customers by
supporting them. Technology developers can learn about ongoing efforts to
develop interoperable distributed authoring and versioning capabilities, and
how to get involved.

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CONTENT

The symposium is a two day event, featuring:

Presentations and Demonstrations:

PRESENT CAPABILITIES:

   * Netscape on Distributed HTML authoring tools
   * Microsoft on Intranet-enabled applications
   * America Online on Web page hosting services
   * Web server support for distributed authoring

WEB SITE MANAGEMENT:

   * Continuus on Configuration management of a web site, by Martin Cagan
   * Document management of a web site

THE FUTURE:

   * U.C. Irvine on Interoperability specification work, by Jim Whitehead
   * W3C/INRIA on Collaborative distributed authoring in Amaya
   * U.C. Irvine on Web-based software development, by Peyman Oreizy
   * GMD FIT on on the BSCW shared workspace system

For more information about the presentations and demonstrations, please
contact Jim Whitehead.

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PARTICIPATION

Due to space considerations, participation in this informative symposium is
limited to 2 people per organization. If additional participation is
neccessary, please email to register@w3.org for permission to send extra
people.

REGISTRATION FEES

W3C member organizations may send two participants for free.
Non-member organizations need to pay a registration fee of $500 per person.

   * At the present time, the only method of payment we can accept is a
     check.
   * All checks should be drawn on a US Bank made payable to MIT/W3C in the
     amount of $500 and received by November 22, 1996.

        o MIT/Laboratory for Computer Science
        o World Wide Web Consortium
        o 545 Technology Square
        o Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
        o Attention: Susan Hardy

REGISTRATION DUE DATE

Friday, November 22, 1996, by 5:00 pm EST.

Registration Form

***Please register early.***
The maximum capacity for the Symposium is 150 participants. Registration
will close whenever the maximum capacity is reached.

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VENUE

Sunnyvale Hilton Inn, Sunnyvale, CA

   * Sunnyvale Hilton Inn
   * 1250 Lakeside Drive
   * Sunnyvale, CA 94086 USA

   * Reservations: +1-617-738-4808 or 800-445-8667
   * Symposium Rate: $125/single, $140/double available for the nights of
     December 3rd, 4th, and 5th.
   * Symposium Code: MIT/W3C Distributed Authoring Symposium

The San Jose International Airport is 4.5 miles from the hotel with
complimentary shuttle service available.

The San Francisco International Airport is approximately 25-30 miles north
of the hotel. The estimated taxi fare is $45.00.

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SPONSORS

The Symposium on Distributed Authoring: Present, and Future is sponsored by
the World Wide Web Consortium and the Irvine Research Unit in Software as a
service to their members.

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