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Canadian working group plans to look at ways to improve recovery of forests after wildfires
Forests Canada is seeking people with experience in the country's forest industry to be part of a new working group, which will examine ways of improving forest recovery after wildfires.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/forests-canada-working-group-9.7136679?cmp=rss

W3C Developers Feb 24

The @w3c #Publishing Maintenance #WorkingGroup issues EPUB Annotations 1.0 as #FPWD, enabling richer reading and improved interoperability #timetogiveinput
▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-anno-10/

This document defines a profile of the Web Annotation Data Model for #EPUB publications, enabling annotations such as highlights, notes, and bookmarks to be expressed using embedded #JSON-LD. The spec. also introduces Annotation Sets for packaging and sharing annotations.

Feedback welcome: https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3ASpec-Annotations

CBC North Feb 18

Meet some of the people working to bring back the Yukon Quest in 2027
Just over a month after the race was cancelled, a working group held a special meeting Tuesday night in downtown Whitehorse in the hopes of electing a new board and bringing back the Yukon Quest in 2027.

#YukonQuest #race #workinggroup #board #Whitehorse
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/meet-people-bringing-back-yukon-quest-2027-9.7096228?cmp=rss

W3C Developers Feb 17

The @w3c Privacy #WorkingGroup has published the first draft of a Group Note to help non-experts review systems that use differential privacy (DP). Differential privacy is a modern #privacy technique that lets collect and analyze data while keeping individuals’ contributions hidden.

▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/differential-privacy-guidance/

This guide suggests what to pay attention to when evaluating such systems, not how to build them.

Feedback wlc: https://github.com/w3c/differential-privacy-guidance/

Considerations for Reviewing Differential Privacy Systems (for Non-Differential Privacy Experts)

The purpose of this document is to provide a high level understanding of the trade-offs that are required when designing and deploying differentially private systems (e.g., privacy, utility, number of trusted parties). Its goal is to enable a less-expert reviewer in their analysis of differentially private systems, and to suggest issues and dimensions to consider when reviewing a system.

W3C Developers Feb 17

The @w3c CSS #WorkingGroup publishes "Selectors Level 5' as #FPWD. The spec. extends Level 4, adding new #CSS selectors #timetogiveinput

▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/selectors-5/

It introduces time dimensional pseudo-classes (':current', ':past', ':future') e.g. for use in #WebVTT, grid-structural (column) selectors to style HTML tables, heading pseudo-classes (👍 #developers-signal https://github.com/web-platform-dx/developer-signals/issues/384), etc.

Feedback wlc: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/tree/main/selectors-5

Selectors Level 5

W3C Developers Jan 26

The @w3c Web Machine Learning #WorkingGroup invites implementations of an updated #CandidateRecommendation Snapshot of the WebNN #API. Most notable additions include a third wave of operators for enhanced transformers support, the MLTensor API for buffer sharing, and a new abstract device selection mechanism #timetoimplement #MachineLearning

▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/

Explainer: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/blob/main/explainer.md

Feedback wlc: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/issues/

Web Neural Network API

Leon Jan 21

New Social Web Working Group at W3C https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/01/15/new-social-web-working-group-at-w3c/ #ActivityPub, #Socialcg, #Socialweb, #Socialwg, #W3c, #Workinggroup

New Social Web Working Group at W3C

Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…

Social Web Foundation

Tim Chambers Jan 15

Cool and interesting on LOLA standard: "New Social Web Working Group at W3C" - https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/01/15/new-social-web-working-group-at-w3c/ #ActivityPub, #Socialcg, #Socialweb, #Socialwg, #W3c, #Workinggroup

New Social Web Working Group at W3C

Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…

Social Web Foundation

Evan Prodromou Jan 15

New Social Web Working Group at W3C

Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be participating in the group. The working group's goal is to release a backwards-compatible iteration of each specification in Q3 of 2026. Activity Streams was released in 2017, and ActivityPub was released in early 2018. Since that time, the experience of hundreds of implementers and millions of users has […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/01/15/new-social-web-working-group-at-w3c/

New Social Web Working Group at W3C

Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…

Social Web Foundation