News
- Prize Winners announced!
- Photos from the Dev Day
Overview
The success of the World Wide Web depends on its developers. From Hypertext and Web Browsers to the APIs that extend the capabilities of the Web, developers have played a very important role in making the Web as ubiquitous as it is today. To celebrate this great driving force behind the Web, we are rebooting the Developers Day at the World Wide Web Conference.
The Developers Day will be forum for developers by developers where cutting edge Web technologies will be discussed. The program consists of a round of lightning talks followed by Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions where attendees will be able to get an in-depth look at the software presented in the form of a hands-on tutorial as well as a discussion of open challenges, next steps, and application areas.
We are soliciting submissions from developers who have interesting open-source software to showcase to the Web developer community. The program will have a special focus on implementations, methods, techniques, and how developers have solved practical problems on the Web. The software must be based on an implemented and tested system that pursues one or more innovative ideas in the interest areas of the conference.
Program
8:45 - 9:00 Room 524A: Opening statements
9:00 - 10:30 Room 524A: Lightning talks (6 talks of 15 mins each)
- BotOrNot: A system to evaluate social bots, Clayton Allen Davis, Onur Varol, Emilio Ferrara, Alessandro Flammini and Filippo Menczer.
- Capturing and Annotating Processes using a Collaborative Platform, Tobias Weller and Maria Maleshkova.
- Context-based A/B test validation, Michael Nolting and Jan Eike von Seggern.
- “Interledger: Creating a Standard for Payments”, Stefan Thomas and Adrian Hope-Bailie.
- “A Payment Protocol of the Web, for the Web”, Evan Schwartz.
- skos-history: Exploiting Web Standards for Change Tracking in Knowledge Organization Systems, Joachim Neubert.
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session I: Discussion and BOF
- Room 524A: Interledger: Creating a Standard for Payments
- Room 524B: BotOrNot: A system to evaluate social bots
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 Session II: Discussion and BOF
- Room 524A: A Payment Protocol of the Web, for the Web
- Room 524B: Capturing and Annotating Processes using a Collaborative Platform
3:30 4:00 Coffee break
4:00 - 5:30 Session III: Discussion and BOF
- Room 524A: Context-based A/B test validation
- Room 524B: skos-history: Exploiting Web Standards for Change Tracking in Knowledge Organization Systems
5:30 - 6:00 Room 524A: Plenary session -- 5 mins summary from each BOF
6:00 - 6:05 Closing statements
Submissions
Submissions should clearly identify the following:
- The purpose of the software that shows innovative use of technology
- The potential to advance the state of the art of the Web
- Real-world applications of the software
- Link(s) to where the software can be downloaded and/or can be tried out (e.g. github.com)
- Link(s) to a comprehensive tutorial and/or documentation outlining how to use the software
Submissions that do not specify where the software can be downloaded or tried out, and/or do not include a tutorial or documentation will not be accepted. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the Developers Day.
Submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings Template and are limited to two pages. It is the authors responsibility to ensure that their submissions adhere strictly to the required format. Submissions that do not comply with the formatting guidelines will be rejected without review.
Submissions must be in PDF, and must be done through EasyChair: WWWDevDay2016.
Proceedings
Each accepted submission will be allocated no more than two pages in the conference proceedings. Authors are not required to transfer copyright.
Prizes
Prizes sponsored by Qatar Computing Research Institute:
- Most Impactful Software Project awarded to Stefan Thomas for “Interledger: Creating a Standard for Payments”.
- Best Presenter awarded to Clayton Allen Davis for BotOrNot: A system to evaluate social bots (with an honorable mention to Jan Eike von Seggern for Context-based A/B test validation).
- Best Participant awarded to Michael Nolting.
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Important Dates
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| Author Notification: | |
| Camera Ready Deadline: | Feb 10th, 2016 |
| Presentations Due: | March 28th, 2016 |
| Developers Day: | April 11th or 12th, 2016 |
Program Committee
- Amy Guy, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Dominic di Franzo, University of Southampton, UK
- Evan Patton, RPI, US
- Lea Verou, MIT, US
- Melvin Carvalho, independent, EU
- Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ES
- Nicola Greco, MIT, US
- Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM, FR
- Richard Cyganiak, TopQuadrant, IE
- Ruben Verborgh, Ghent University, BE
- Sarven Capadisli, University of Bonn, DE
- Stéphane Corlosquet, independent, CA
- Ted Benson, Cloudstitch, US
- Thomas Steiner, Google, DE
Organizers
- Oshani Seneviratne, Oracle, USA
- Andrei Sambra, MIT, USA
- Lalana Kagal, MIT, USA
For any inquiries regarding the WWW 2016 Developer Day, please contact the Chairs at wwwdevday2016@easychair.org.