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Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, W3C Staff

Who am I?

Vast question! But leaving apart the introspection questions, I hold an Engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris ; I joined W3C first as its Webmaster through a V.I.E. exchange program at M.I.T., then was recruited as part of the INRIA-, then ERCIM-based European Team of W3C.

My work in W3C

Working from France, I’m currently involved in the following projects:

• W3C Developer Relationship and Community Management, where among other things I co-animate the @w3cdevs Twitter account and sit on the MDN Web Docs Product Advisory Board,
• the Network & Communications Vertical champion, in charge of understanding the specific needs from that ecosystem on and from the Web, and turning these needs into actionable plans in W3C, including through the Web & Networks Interest Group;
• the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group that is bringing peer-to-peer audio/video connections to the Web;
• the Immersive Web, bringing Virtual and Augmented Reality (XR) to the Web (Web & Virtual Reality Workshop, WebVR Authoring Workshop, Immersive Web Working Group)
• the Web Machine Learning Working Group bringing hardware acceleration to machine learning inferencing in Web browsers (following from Machine Learning on the Web Workshop)
• I am part of the W3C management team
• I am manager of the W3C European site
• I sit on the W3C inc Board of Directors

Before my current activities, I served as Staff Contact in the Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group, and as co-Chair of the Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group, the Geolocation Working Group, the Devices and Sensors Working Group. I also served as Staff Contact of the Web & Mobile Interest Group

I have also developed a number of the Web applications used by W3C to support its on-line collaborative work as part of the W3C Systems Team, and continue to develop tools for my W3C groups on a more ad-hoc basis (mostly on GitHub).

Even earlier, I was Activity Lead of the Quality Assurance Activity and Staff Contact of the Quality Assurance Working Group; I was also involved in the early work on GRDDL and various Semantic Web projects.

I’m also interested in Web Accessibility — as part of a larger focus of mine on usability.

More details about my activities are discoverable through my GitHub activities or via Twitter and Mastodon.

Events

I’m available for speaking engagements, both in French and in English; contact me at dom@w3.org, preferably well in-advance of the event, especially for events outside of Europe.

2019

Des nouvelles de WebXR

Meet-up AR/VR/XR - 2ème édition, Marseilles, France, June 12

Making the Web & 5G work together

#5GMediaRoad2019, Munich, Germany, May 9

L’API Web Authentication

/dev/var/23, Toulon, France, Jan 22

2018

Web5G: Aligning Evolutions of Network and Web Technologies

FUSECO Forum, Berlin, Germany, Nov 15

W3C & les développeurs Web

Atelier Paris Web 2018, Paris, France, Oct 6

Le W3C pour les dévelopeurs Web (Video)

Paris Web 2018, Paris, France, Oct 4

Le Web Immersif : VR & AR dans les navigateurs

Meetup Réalité Augmentée et Virtuelle Marseille-Aix-Toulon, Marseilles, France, June 5

Web5G: Aligning evolutions of network and Web technologies

Fokus Media Web Symposium 2018, Berlin, Germany, May 16

WebXR - bringing virtual and augmented reality to the Web

Fokus Media Web Symposium 2018, Berlin, Germany, May 15

The Browser as An App Platform

W3C Web5G Workshop, London, UK, May 10

WebXR - bringing virtual and augmented reality to the Web

W3C Track in the Web Conference 2018, Lyon, France, April 27

Standardizing service platforms for 5G: A view from the Web

21st Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN) conference, Paris, France, February 22

2017

L’API Web Payments

/dev/var/19, Toulon, France, October 19

WebVR panel

VRX Europe conference, London, UK, May 11

The Web Platform: Build it, Use it

Mobile Web Progress, Barcelona, March 1st

W3C WebRTC Standardization Update

MWC17 Real-time Communications Meetup, Barcelona, February 28

Web & Réalité Virtuelle

/dev/var/16, Toulon, France, January 12

2016

Web, meet Virtual Reality

ViewSource 2016, Berlin, Germany, September 14

Panel on WebRTC standardization status

WebRTC Global Summit, London, UK, 12 April

Web & Interactions de proximité (Web & Proximity Interactions)

/dev/var/13, Toulon, France, 24 March

W3C WebRTC API updates

WebRTC Barcelona Meet up, Barcelona, Spain, Feb 23

2015

Les notifications Push pour le Web

/dev/var/11, Toulon, France, 8 October

Web & Mobile meet-up

W3C Track in WWW2015 conference, , Florence, Italy, May 20-21 2015

The Web, on Mobile and Beyond

ISOC NL HTML5/Webapps workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2nd

WebRTC Masterclass Part 1 & Part 2 (deep dive)

W3C.NL Masterclass on WebRTC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2nd

WebRTC et les standards du Web

Pôle SCS Info day on WebRTC, Sophia-Antipolis, France, January 22

earlier…

See the archives of older talks and presentations.

Projects

A few W3C projects I am involved in:

• browser-specs, reffy, webref and strudy, tools that allows to monitor and extract useful data from Web specifications
• webidlpedia and webdex, automatically maintained indexes of Web specifications
• The WebDX Community Group which looks at improving the Web developer experience
• The WebView Community Group which looks at making WebViews work better with and for Web technologies
• Open Web Docs, a collaborative effort to maintain and grow MDN Web Docs - I sit on the Governing Committee and the Steering Committee
• The MDN Product Advisory Board

Previously:

• demos of Web-based multi-devices usage: remote whiteboard and 3D explorer
• W3Connect Web App for TPAC 2011 and W3Connect Web app for Over the Air 2011, based on an open-source node.js powered Web application
• W3C Cheatsheet for developers (source)
• the WebIDL checker (source), and widlproc, a Web IDL parser
• the 2009 redesign of the W3C web site
• organization and co-chairing of the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona, Jan 2009, that led to the creation of the Social Web Incubator Group
• organization of the W3C Workshop on Securing access to Device APIs from the Web in London, Dec 2008, that led to the creation of the Device APIs and Policy Working Group
• the Web Compatibility Tests for Mobile Browsers: first and second version
• the Mobile Test Harness
• co-authored and tutored the on-line course on the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices
• W3C GRDDL service, HTMLDiff service
• the mobileOK checker (and its predecessor, the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices checker)
• Tracker, a W3C internal issues and action items tracking system used by many W3C Working Groups
• the Last Call comments tracker, a W3C internal tool to manage feedback received from the public on W3C specifications
• Planet Mobile Web, an aggregation of blog posts regarding the Web on mobile devices
• the W3C Working Groups management system that serves as a basis for ensuring the proper application of W3C Patent Policy
• WBS, the Web Balloting and Straw Poll System, a W3C internal tool used to run survey and questionnaires
• the first version of the publication rules checker and various other spec-editing assistants
• the semantic data extractor
• the W3C mailing list archives accessibility and usability improvements
• the Glossary project
• the old “W3C new visitors” page (2002)
• the initial move from table-based to CSS-layout for the W3C Home page back in 2002
• RDFization of the QA Matrix
• Automation (and RDFization) of the Technical Reports list management
• the spell checker

Publications

• Web and Native Gap Analysis report, Oct 2013
• The Web on Mobile and Beyond, A List Apart column, March 2013
• Le W3C vu de l’intérieur (Insider view of W3C), Le Train de 13h37, Jan 2013
• Standards for Web Applications on Mobile, a quarterly updated overview of technologies used to build Web applications on mobile;
• Relever le défi du Web mobile (Eyrolles editions), book in French on developing and designing for the Web on mobile devices
• On the Web: mobile and accessible?, In ÆGIS conference proceedings (PDF), 1st ÆGIS International Conference (HTML version)
• Method for Writing Testable Conformance Requirements, Working Group Note, January 2010
• Guidelines for writing device independent tests, Working Group Note, May 2009
• Return of the Mobile Style Sheet, article in A List Apart, January 2009
• QA Framework Specification Guidelines, W3C Recommendation, August 2005
• Variability in Specifications, Working Group Note, August 2005
• Bridging XHTML, XML and RDF with GRDDL, accepted paper to XTech 2005 conference, May 2005
• Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL), co-author of the original Team Submission in May 2005
• Buy standards compliant web sites, W3C QA Article, July 2002

Office address

W3C/ERCIM
2004, Route des Lucioles
Sophia Antipolis
06410 Biot
France

Misc

• Work blog, mastodon feed
• My LinkedIn profile
• Personal Home page, mostly in in French
• Team page, restricted to W3C Staff
• My public PGP Key (Id: 0573873B, fingerprint: 21B3 D2AF D2CC CA7D A566 7FD7 6C4F C196 0573 873B, available on MIT keys server)

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