Trip Report WWW2002 May 7-11 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii

1. pre-conference activities
2. conference at a glance
3. workshop "web content accessibility" (may 7, 2002)
4. first day (may 8, 2002)
5. second day (may 9, 2002)
6. third day (may 10, 2002)
7. developers day (may 11, 2002)
8. post-conference activities
9. documentation
10. other trip reports
11. previous conferences

1. pre-conference activities:

zürich - los angeles - san diego - los angeles - honolulu (at the beach and by rain)

hamaula bay underwater state park

flooded road in the north of oahu

• may 1st: we fly from zürich via dallas to los angeles; smooth flights, no problems at immigration and customs
• may 2nd: we drive from los angeles to san diego, i meet with the people from the university of california (UCSD) where i will spend my sabbatical after the web conference
• may 3rd: we drive back from san diego to los angeles and fly to honolulu
• may 4 to may 6: we spend the days at the beach (see picture above on the left) and do some sight-seeing in the rain (see picture above on the right)

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2. conference at a glance:

sheraton waikiki - where the conference takes place

some basic facts:

1. the sheraton waikiki hotel is a great location on a wonderful island and provides all the services we need. great choice ! even though people back home tend to think we may spend the day at the beach rather than at the conference, we actually don't, as this report hopefully proves.
   
   
2. i think there are less participants than at earlier conferences - the list of pre-registered attendees shows about 700 names rather than about 1000. at the opening ceremony, they claimed there are about 900 attendees.
   
   
3. according to the list of pre-registered attendees the only participants from switzerland are fabio, jakob and me from the ETHZ Web Office, erik from the D-ELEK, roberto from the university of zurich and somebody from the university of geneva.
   
   
4. the wireless LAN is working fast and seemlessly since monday afternoon. it even allows me to listen to my favorit radio station back home over the Internet while i'm downloading my emails or uploading my trip report.

some thoughts related to my work at the ETHZ:

1. based on what i have heard at this conference, i believe it was very likely not a good idea to choose a CMS system that is not inherently based on XML.
   
   
2. we should seriously think about implementing web based services as web services, e.g. services around NETHZ.
   
   
3. we should never forget about accessibility. especially if we want to provide a widely used CMS, we have to make sure it produces web pages that are accessible to all users, regardless of technical and human capabilities.

the 12th WWW conference (WWW2003):

• will be held in budapest, hungary, may 20..24, 2003
• see the official website for details

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3. workshop "web content accessibility" (may 7):

highlights:

1. different accessibility guidelines all over the world need to be harmonized to avoid fragmentation
2. various accessibility evaluation procedures were presented which reminded me of our poster presentation at WWW8
3. A-prompt is a partially automated accessibility repair utility
4. the dublin core is a set of rules to describe information on the Internet - its relation to accessibility was discussed

more details ...

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4. first day (may 8):

highlights:

1. ALOHA - opening ceremony
2. Web services
3. the semantic Web

more details ...

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5. second day (may 9):

highlights:

the conference banquet took place at the bishop museum

1. XML update plus DOM level 3, XPath and XQuery, XSL, MathML, CSS and XHTML
2. plenary session
3. SMIL and a really cool session about SVG
4. conference banquet at the bishop museum

more details ...

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6. third day (may 10):

1. plenary session
2. universal access: WAI report - I18N and device independence: voice and multimodal interaction - CC/PP - XFroms
3. leading the Web to its full potential: integrated W3C technologies in Amaya - town meeting
4. closing session

more details ...

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7. developers day (may 11):

1. device-independent Web
2. multimedia messaging service (MMS)
3. lunch with tim berners-lee
4. XForms

more details ...

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8. post-conference activities:

after the conference, we spent one week on maui, where we visited the waianapanapa state park and most of all the haleakala national park.

black sand beach in the waianapanapa SP	inside the haleakala crater	silverswords on the floor of the haleakala crater

on may 18, 2002, we flew back to the main land, where i spent my three months sabbatical at the University of California in San Diego" (UCSD). see my trip report about the sabbatical (in german).

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9. documentation:

• the conference and poster proceedings are available from our Web server.
• a printed version of the tutorials, conference and poster proceedings is available at my office (RZ G5).

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10. other trip report's:

Please check out these other trip reports:

• trip report by fabio consani (ETHZ)
• trip report by roberto mazzoni (uni ZH)

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11. trip reports from previous conferences:

• trip report from the 10th WWW conference in hong kong, 1-5 may 2001
• trip report from the 9th WWW conference in amsterdam, the netherlands, 15-19 may 2000
• trip report from the 8th WWW conference in toronto, canada, 11-14 may 1999
• trip report from the 7th WWW conference in brisbane, QLD, australia, 14-18 april 1998
• trip report from the 6th WWW conference in santa clara, CA, USA, 7-11 april 1997
• trip report from the 5th WWW conference in paris, france, 6-10 may 1996
• trip report from the 4th WWW conference in boston, USA, 11-14 december 1995
• trip report from the 3rd WWW conference in darmstadt, germany, 10-14 april 1995
• sorry, but i did not attend the 2nd WWW conference in chicago, USA !
• trip report from the 1st WWW conference in geneva, switzerland, 25-27 may 1994

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production note:

this trip report was written on a Vadem Clio C-1050 running Windows CE with Pocket Word. It was then transferred to a DELL Latitude notebook and modified as needed. this page is valid HTML 4.01 transitional.