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国際リエゾングループ（ILG: International Liaison Group）設置のお知らせ
Web Standards Projectでグループ・リードを務めた数年のあいだ、私の抱いていた情熱や希望は、世界中の仲間たちと交わり、ネットワークをつくることに向けられていました。実際、あなたの目にしているものはワールドワイドなWebですよね？貴族主義的よりも包括的であることは、私たちのミッションを進めるうえでより自然な選択であり、私にとって理に叶っていました。 その結果として、私はWaSPに新しい種類のグループをつくることを考え始めました。そのグループは、タスクフォースでも委員会でもなく、リソースをグローバルに共有することに専念するためのワーキンググループです。そのビジョンは個々の地域向けに翻訳やネットワーク、情報交換、可能であれば場所を問わず直に会って話す機会を提供すること。同グループは他と同様、さまざまな国にある組織間で連携し、世界中のWebデザイナーや開発者らにより参考になる専門的なリソースを提供する個人から構成されます。 程なく私に転機が訪れることになり、そのアイディアを推し進めるのを少しばかりためらいました。私がWaSPで長きにわたり直面してきた古くからの課題に、新たなアイディアを付け加えてそのままにしてしまうことを恐れたのです。草の根的で、ボランティアから成る組織というのは、それぞれがお金を稼ぐための仕事や家族といった事柄が活動の時間に優先しなければならないことから、運営が非常に難しいものです。しかし私はとにかく提案をしましたし、そのことをとても嬉しく思っています。 私が提案した後、グループは成長し始めたばかりでなく、民主的に自ら組織化し始めました。今やILGは形式上、私たちの業界におけるプロフェッショナリズムと長所に対する個人的貢献に傑出した、二人の素晴らしく献身的な女性、Stephanie TroethとGlenda Simsが率いています。包括的なビジョンは、世界中からの驚くほどに多様で才能に富んだ人々と共に、情熱と魅力を備え前進しています。 そういうわけで、今日Web Standards Projectの国際リエゾングループ(International Liaison Group）を皆さんにご紹介できることを誇りに思い、また喜びとします。 愛を込めて。 Molly Molly E. Holzschlag Web Standards Project (WaSP) 前グループ・リード — Kazuhito Kidachi
By Molly E. Holzschlag | February 1st, 2007
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
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Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality.
When The Web Standards Project (WaSP) formed in 1998, the web was the battleground in an ever-escalating war between two browser makers—Netscape and Microsoft—who were each taking turns “advancing” HTML to the point of collapse. You see, in an effort to one-up each other, the two browsers introduced new elements and new ways of manipulating web documents; this escalated to the point where their respective 4.0 versions were largely incompatible.
Realizing that this fragmentation would inevitably drive up the cost of building websites and ran the risk of denying users access to content and services they needed, Glenn Davis, George Olsen, and Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded WaSP and rallied an amazing group of web designers and developers to help them push back. The WaSP’s primary goal was getting browser makers to support the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
In 2001, with the browser wars largely over, WaSP began to shift its focus. While some members continued to work with browser vendors on improving their standards support, others began working closely with software makers like Macromedia to improve the quality of code being authored in tools such as Dreamweaver. And others began the hard slog of educating web designers and developers about the importance of using web standards, culminating in the creation of WaSP InterAct, a web curriculum framework which is now overseen by the W3C.
Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality. While there is still work to be done, the sting of the WaSP is no longer necessary. And so it is time for us to close down The Web Standards Project.
Many (if not all) of us are continuing to work in the world of web standards, but our work is now largely outside the umbrella of WaSP. If you are interested in continuing to work on web standards-related projects along with us, we humbly suggest you follow these projects:
- A List Apart – The magazine “for people who make websites” is run by WaSP founder Jeffrey Zeldman and is a consistent source of forward-thinking articles and tutorials.
- HTML5 Doctor – A solid resource and discussion forum on all things HTML5, brought to you by Bruce Lawson and his team.
- W3C Community Groups – If you have a passion for a specific web technology, you can help make it better by participating in one (or more) community groups. In particular, you might be interested in one of these: Core Mobile Web Platform, Responsive Images, Web Education, and Web Media Text Tracks.
- WebPlatform.org – A fantastic web standards resource, providing up-to-date documentation, Q&As, tutorials & more. Chris Mills, Doug Schepers, and a number of other standards advocates are involved in this project.
- Web Standards Sherpa – An educational resource founded by WaSP which continues to operate under the leadership of Chris Casciano, Virginia DeBolt, Aaron Gustafson, and Emily Lewis.
- Web Standards + Small Business – An outreach project started by WaSP that educates small businesses about why they should care about web standards. This project is overseen by Aaron Gustafson.
The job’s not over, but instead of being the work of a small activist group, it’s a job for tens of thousands of developers who care about ensuring that the web remains a free, open, interoperable, and accessible competitor to native apps and closed eco-systems. It’s your job now, and we look forward to working with you, and wish you much success.
Nota bene: In the near future, we will be making a permanent, static archive of webstandards.org and some of our other resources like WaSP Interact to preserve them as a resource and to provide a record of our 15-year mission to improve the web.
Bruce Lawson and Steph Troeth contributed to this post.
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