[georss] [ANN] Call for Participation -- XTech 200*

[Dan Brickley]

+cc: mike at w3.org (hi mike!)

Ron Lake wrote:
> I hope you guys will show up at GeoWeb 2007 (http://www.geoweb.org 
> <http://www.geoweb.org/>) !

And at XTech2007 ... hmm how did we come to be discussing a mail from 
2005? :)

2006 is so last year.

http://2007.xtech.org/public/news

"Join us on 15-18 May 2007, in Paris, France for Europe’s premier web 
technology conference."

There's a geo-location bof apparently,
http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/222

... I hadn't stumbled across that in the schedule before. Adding Mike to 
cc: list, and excerpting the page to save on the clicking. Sorry to say 
I can't make it to GeoWeb 2007, ... and that at XTech I'll be in the 
Widgets BOF in the same timeslot with my Joost colleagues.

cheers,

Dan

ps. anyone from http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/ likely to be at 
XTech 2007 and at this BOF?


[[[
Geolocation BOF
Ryan Sarver (Skyhook Wireless), Michael(tm) Smith (W3C)
17:30 Tuesday May 15
Ubiquitous web, BOF Amphitheatre C

With the advent of free mapping tools like Google Maps, we have seen 
more and more developers add location-aware functionality and content 
into their web and mobile applications. This, along with the growth of 
location providing technologies such as GPS, Wi-Fi triangulation and IP 
Geolocation make the browser an ideal broker for the users location 
information.

During this session we will discuss (and hopefully resolve) some of the 
following questions that arise when exposing a users Geolocation in the 
browser:

     * Location providers
           o What location providers exist?
           o NMEA vs API vs NMEA+API
           o Pros/cons to each?
           o What are the baseline attributes of any location provider?
           o Is reverse geocoding important? Can we set a standard and 
have multiple vendors?

     * Privacy Control
           o Interface and usability use cases. Let’s review some examples
           o How do you control an analog vs binary privacy policy?
           o Should how the data is used by the remote site be part of 
the privacy policy?

     * DOM API
           o How would developers like to be able to request the data?
           o navigator.getGeolocation() vs 
navigator.geolocation.getZipcode()
           o How do developers envision using the API and resulting data?

If you’re interested in attending this session, please e-mail Michael™ 
Smith mike at w3.org (not a requirement—just as a courtesy to the 
organizers in getting a rough estimate of the number of potential 
attendees).
]]]
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