Coralie Mercier (W3C)

@koalie@w3c.social
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♀, word-slinger, slide-maker. she/her. @w3c staff, vintage year 1999, Head of Comms. @koalie for more casual content and @koalie (MIT) which is my outlet account 😈
πŸ”— (home)https://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/
πŸ“ (blog)https://www.w3.org/blog/?search=coralie+mercier
πŸ”Ž (what I do)https://www.w3.org/Press/slides/marcomm-support/
About mehttps://blog.koalie.net/about/

It has arrived today!
A colleague of mine advised I should treat it as a new computer (as opposed to transferring on it the same β€œimage” I have been using since the beginning in 2005) and it is overwhelming, right now. Also, I haven’t had to set up a new machine in 10 years.

So I’m putting the β€œpro” in procrastination: it is now charging.

Guess whose workplace 10 year-old MacBook Pro is going to be retired REAL SOON NOW?!

Yes, me!

I was asked about (my) history of the web and relationship with @w3c by @bkardell on behalf of @igalia 3 weeks ago. The filmed interview aired last night.

So many memories resurfaced! For example did you know the 1998 soccer World Cup was streamed live, in ascii, over Telnet? I watched it!

Parts of the interview are a bit personal, but I got to share with Brian some of my favourite thoughts and hopes for #w3c

If you watch/listen I hope you learn something ☺️

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5sCmpE_v9aA

History of Web BlinkOn 19: Coralie Mercier

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Good mourning 😡
Insomnia is lousy.
#TeamInsomnia
In case it doesn’t make it to the cut, here’s my explanation of one of the roles of the @w3c team in helping shepherding web standards
I'm so ready for the weekend! \o/
Presumably, the next weeks aren't going to be brutal like this week 😩
#work

Very well-delivered talk by @w3c colleague and @tag co-chair @torgo last week, which takes the listener on the journey of designing technology according to principles.

#WideReview gets you there.

Because "Technology without ethics makes social inequality worse."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRrj48CRE0&t=230s
https://mastodon.social/@torgo/112348281989520155

Better Outcomes Through Wide Review - Daniel Appelquist, Samsung

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Today I updated the visual 1994-2024 timeline of @w3c organizational highlights and most notable technical work.

For additional context I added the number of websites and Internet users every few years, as well as a layer noting a selection of other sites, products or services.

It's a lot of data in one representation πŸ€“
https://www.w3.org/comm/assets/graphics/2024-04-02_timeline-1994-2024/2024-04-02_timeline-1994-2024.html

Long description of the graphical timeline spanning 1994-2024

The other day I read a question whether a monkey transfer protocol existed for the Web.

Yes, yes, they wrote "money transfer protocol".

I think I've successfully remapped "monkey" for "money" in my brain! Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

*places cigar between front teeth*
*relaxes and looks cocky*

I love it when a plan comes together

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Today I updated the visual 1994-2024 timeline of @w3c organizational highlights and most notable technical work.

For additional context I added the number of websites and Internet users every few years, as well as a layer noting a selection of other sites, products or services.

It's a lot of data in one representation πŸ€“
https://www.w3.org/comm/assets/graphics/2024-04-02_timeline-1994-2024/2024-04-02_timeline-1994-2024.html

@koalie @w3c
How did you generate the timeline?
With some tool support or manual?

(I'm searching a tool which helps generating timelines 😬)

@realn2s maybe you would be interested by this one: https://github.com/molly/static-timeline-generator
GitHub - molly/static-timeline-generator: Create static timeline webpages.

Create static timeline webpages. Contribute to molly/static-timeline-generator development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
@davvalent
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I will take a look
@realn2s manually done!
@koalie
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😬 I feared that answer. It looks too good πŸ˜„
@koalie @w3c Love the accessibility placed into this chart, not just with the text but the clear understanding of the timeline data- thank you for keeping that spirit alive! It's the W3C, I know, but still, I'm happy to see this be a good example set for the wider web community to follow