Fundamentos Web 2007

News

24 Oct 2007 Thanks and material

We have already started to upload the slides and audio of the talks in the programme page. We'll add a new piece of news as soon as the videos are available.

Thanks to all attendants and speakers that came to Gijón, specially to those who had to travel long distances and those who even... had to took holidays to be able to come! You all have made Fundamentos Web 2007 a great success.

3 Oct 2007 Don\'t miss the Conference: attend online

For all of you that cannot be at the conference, you can follow the whole conference through elmundo.es

2 Oct 2007 Espicha Location

The espicha will be held, on Wednesday, 3rd October at 21:00, at the Bellavista restaurant. This restaurant is placed 400 meters away from the Palacio de Congresos, in the Avenida José García Bernardo, in front of the Beach.

25 Sep 2007 Last chance to get registered

Next Thursday 27th September 2007 the registration for Web Foundations 2007 Conference will be closed. If you don’t want to miss this event which will count with the participation of renowned experts at an international level in the field of design with web standards you are still in time to get registered.

12 Sep 2007 What would you ask Tim?

During the interview to Tim Berners-Lee on Thursday, 4th October, at the second panel, we will ask him several questions. One of these can be yours. Send your questions.

12 Sep 2007 Microsoft, Google, Nokia and Adobe in ‘Web Foundations’

20 world experts on architecture and web design will attend the third edition of Web Foundations. Among them, well-known figures of Microsoft, Google, Nokia and Adobe; as well as the special participation of Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and W3C Director, who will also take part in the event via videoconference. Read the press release.

7 Sep 2007 Joost and the Social TV

Dan Brickley will talk about Joost, a platform which is changing the way of watching TV.

20 Aug 2007 Workshop on Microformats, a Key Issue for Building an Open Social Web

Tantek Çelik gives a workshop on microformats, the last day of the Fundamentos Web conferences. On the Friday 5th October, he will show the importance of microformats in the new generation of Social Web Applications, in a practical way.

27 Jul 2007 Together to talk about the Web

If you are interested in knowing more about the future of the Web, how the Web is growing and its current and future impact on the Society, do not miss the panel that will be held October 4. George Oates (Flickr), Tantek Çelik (Technorati), Hannah Donovan (Last FM), Eduardo Manchón (Panoramio), Ismael Nafría (Prisacom) y Rigo Wenning (W3C), chaired by Fernando Claver (PC Actual), will talk about these topics, sharing opinions and ideas from a professional and personal perspective.

25 Jul 2007 Web Foundations 2007 will count with the presence of Matt May

Matt May, Accessibility Engineer at Adobe, and also developer and technologist, will discuss about the accessibility of the new applications in the Web, among other subjects.

12 Jul 2007 George Oates joins the list of speakers of Web Foundations 2007

George Oates, Lead Designer at Yahoo, and a founding member of the team that built Flickr, will also attend this year's Web Foundations.

4 Jul 2007 Jeremy Keith will also be with us in Gijón

The famous Web developer, Jeremy Keith (Clearleft), known for the elegance of his designs and for his concern for accessibility, will also take part in Web Foundations 2007.

3 Jul 2007 Panel: Browsing among new technologies

Representatives of the most well-known Web browsers at an international level, such as Doug Stamper (Internet Explorer), Mike Schroepfer (FireFox), Charles McCathieNevile (Opera), Arthur Barstow (Nokia), and Allan Sandfeld Jensen (Konqueror), will participate in a panel that will take place 3 October, and will be conducted by Bert Bos, CSS co-author and W3C Style and Maths Activity Lead. They will discuss topics such as complex layouts demanded by designers, the need of re-using information through semantic Web technologies, printing (using HTML, CSS, SVG, etc.), "widgets" (light-weight, client-side applications), as well as compound documents, always bearing in mind new technologies such as the Mobile Web, CSS3, XHTML2, new HTML, and so on.

27 Jun 2007 Tim Berners-Lee will participate in Web Foundations 2007

The W3C Spain Office and Fundación CTIC are pleased to present Tantek Çelik, Jeffrey Veen and Tim Berners-Lee, among other noted Web standards experts at the third edition of Fundamentos Web 2007 (Web Foundations 2007) on 3-5 October in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. Well-knowned representatives from Microsoft, Opera, Mozilla, Nokia, Konqueror, Flickr, Last FM, among others, will present at the event. Registration for the conference, which sold out for the second time last year, is now open. Please, consult the press release.

13 Jun 2007 And the winner is,...

After two weeks of hard deliberations, the evaluating committee has decided that the three CSS that better comply with the criteria of usability, accessibility, novelty, size, standard implementation and display in different browsers, are the following:

• Winner: Nouvelle web (by Adriana Pertierra Castaño)
• 2^nd: Cantabrico (by Mónica Antón Suárez)
• 3^rd: Css City (by Juan Francisco del Río Pacheco)

We really appreciate the time and care you have spent in the designing of your CSS. We hope to see you all in October.

30 May 2007 Final selection

After solving certain problems with last-minute unlawful votes made after the official limit time, the selection of the most popular styles have been published. The three winners will come out of this list. They will be selected by W3C staff in accordance with the established evaluation criteria.
We really appreciate the participation of all the people who have sent their styles, and congratulate the selected designers. The styles between the 10th and the 16th places of the ranking are at draw, so it has been decided to include them all in the final selection.
More than 19,000 votes have been received, out of which 11,000 correspond to the minimum value votes and 5,000 to maximum value.

24 May 2007 Fair Play

Irregular votes have been detected during the opening of the voting system. The votes have been updated with real values.

23 May 2007 Vote the Designs

The voting period is opened. We have some problems with the voting system due to the massive access of users to the site. We hove to solve it as soon as possible.

22 May 2007 On your mark, set, go!

The deadline to send the CSS designs for the Fundamentos Web 2007 contest was yesterday’s midnight. We have received more than 50 proposals, so it seams it will be a hard-fought competition. The popular voting period starts tomorrow, and it will be open until 29th May, inclusive. With your votes, you will choose the ten designs which will be assessed by the evaluating committee, chaired by Bert Bos, co-inventor of CSS.On 13th June 2007, the winning style and the two finalist designs will be made public, and the conference web site will be officially launched.Thank you for your enthusiasm and good luck.

18 May 2007 Clear and Clean

markintosh has proposed a clear and clean style. See the result.

18 May 2007 IGS06

Ignasi Gras accepts the challenge and presents IGS06. See the site with this style applied.

18 May 2007 Fundamentos Web in a Notepad

jne gives his viewpoint on the Fundamentos Web in a notepad.

17 May 2007 ...by typewriter

Garro... Yepaaaa! proposes a design which evokes times of typewriters. Check the site with the style Layout avec machine d'écrire.

17 May 2007 -8kb

jtx has sent a lightweight design called -8kb. Apply this style to the Fundamentos Web site and see the result.

14 May 2007 Blue Spring, Simple Bao, and 25a

Mr.Wizard, NachE, and Raúl Herranz have proposed new designs: Blue Spring, Simple Bao, and 25a. See all the received styles

11 May 2007 New Style: piensaenpixel

Piensaenpixel proposes a new style for the contest. See the Fundamentos Web's site with this style applied.

11 May 2007 Deadline for Sending Styles Extended

We have received many requests asking for more time to take part into the contest. So, we have decided to extend the deadline for receiving designs. Styles can be sent until May 21. The popular voting begins on Wednesday, May 23, and the winner proposal will be published on June 13.

10 May 2007 We Move to Gijón

This year, the conferences and the workshop will be held at the Palacio de Congresos de la Feria Internacional de Muestras, in Gijón. So, the infrastructures are improved in order to achieve a better attendants' comfort. Organization will offer lunches during the days of the event.

10 May 2007 Panels, pens and shadows

Lord Cyberon has proposed a new style based on panels: Panels, pens and Shadows. You can see the final result with this style applied. All styles may be voted from 14th to 20th May (both included).

3 May 2007 hex-it: the First Style

We have the first proposed style for the contest sent by Min: hex-it. You can apply this style to the web site. We encourage you to take part in the contest. Send your design before 13th May.

11 Apr 2007 Fundamentos 2007 wears your style

Preparations for the third edition of the Fundamentos Web Conference have already started. This year, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), we propose you to change the appearance of Fundamentos 2007 Web site with your own style sheet. The winner and the two finalists will be chosen, out of the most voted designs, by a committee made up of W3C staff and chaired by the CSS co-inventor, Bert Bos. You can take a MacBook or a Wii home. Why don’t you take part in the contest? More information in the contest section.