W3C Open Source Software and Services
My current W3C role is the coordination of development, maintenance
and community activities around the W3C Open Source
Software and free services, in particular the Web Quality tools,
checkers and validators.
Areas of interest beyond the open source development are the spreading of information
and knowledge about Web Standards, as well as conversations between W3C and the Web communities,
notably through the W3C Questions & Answers blog.
I also oversee and participate to a number of internal W3C IT
projects.
Past Roles
- From 2002 to 2007, I participated in W3C's Quality Assurance
activity, also chairing its Interest Group,
participating in its education and outreach effort.
- Since 2000, I have been involved in the W3C Systems Team, building systems and services
including the W3C lists search
service.
How to contact me?
After 7 years based at the Japanese Host of W3C, I am now based in Montréal, Canada; I regularly spend time
at the main W3C Hosts, in Japan (Keio University, Kanagawa), USA (MIT, Cambridge, MA) and France (ERCIM, Sophia-Antipolis).
e-Mail and Mailing-lists
Most of my work is done in public, and on public mailing-lists. If you would like to contact me about one of the W3C projects I am involved in, it is much preferred that you send mail to the relevant mailing-list.
- It likely that your question or suggestion will have already been raised before
- Your question or suggestion will be much more useful to more people if it is archived publicly
- By contacting a mailing-list rather than me directly, you make me less likely to be the single point of failure or bottleneck in your communications with W3C and its communities.
In particular:
- If you would like to get involved in W3C Open Source Software, and know which
project you would like to participate in, check that project's home page for feedback/contact
info. If you are unsure, contact the hacker's forum: public-qa-dev@w3.org
- For any question regarding the Markup Validator or the Log Validator,
please use the publicly
archived list www-validator@w3.org.
Similarly, www-validator-css@w3.org is the forum
of choice for feedback and discussions on the CSS Validation service.
- Do not send me mail for any question about mailing-lists at W3C.
Instead, read the Introduction and Usage guidelines and
the Archive editing
policy. If after reading those carefully you still want to contact
w3c for any archive-related matter, please do so through archive-editor@w3.org.
- For any problem with W3C's website and services, please read the W3C Webmaster FAQ before contacting me
or W3C's web/systems team.
Also on the Web...
W3C team members can check my Team page.
Others can find misc stuff on my Home Page,
including photos and Writings / Journal (in french).
On my free time, I am also an administrator of Art Beat, a network of Web Sites
bringing information and commentary about the Art and Design scenes in e.g.
Tokyo and New York.