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For example, the Linux Foundation has its own networking group for the Linux operating system and, until recently, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), has its own Internet community. The Linux Foundation’s software-development efforts are done in a manner that allows for ongoing cross-industry cooperation. The Linux Foundation and other communities have worked together to create the Linux Standard Base (LSB), a Linux framework, and now, to provide the foundation upon which to build the Linux Operating System, which will eventually power hundreds of millions of devices.

The world’s leading technology industry associations have their own standards bodies that act as a clearinghouse of expertise, ensuring that all vendors meet the highest industry standards.

In addition, leading network equipment manufacturers such as Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks are members of the Internet Society, the IT industry’s major trade association.

In addition to these, there are a host of other associations that work closely with these other organizations to set standards and develop technological standards.

Today, the industry is coming together at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to work on standards for the next generation of computing devices. If your company designs, manufactures, or supports the equipment in millions of homes and businesses around the world, you are a W3C member.

W3C is an organization of nearly 5,000 companies around the world that contribute to the development of technology standards and user interfaces to help the world’s businesses and individuals access the Web. W3C’s work is in four areas: Web browsers, Web servers, multimedia protocols, and Web standards. Some of the companies and individuals who belong to the W3C are: Amazon.com, IBM, Intel, Mozilla, PayPal, Philips, Samsung, Telefonica, and Vodafone. The W3C has been an important force in the web’s development over the past decade. In addition to working on standards for the Web, the W3C works on a variety of technical topics, such as computer-generated graphics, the specification of electronic document exchange, multimedia standards, and the Internet. To learn more about the W3C, please visit www.w3.org.

A list of W3C Working Groups, the meetings that W3C Organizers organize, and their agendas for this week.

The W3C is making all of the lists available in CSV form. This provides an easy way to get up-to-date information on all the Working Groups. A list of all of the conferences in which the W3C is taking place in the coming year. These are the meetings where the W3C’s members work to develop specifications and other technical standards. The next one is the 2014 HTML5 conference. The full list of all the meetings is available in CSV form here.

Last year’s blog post announcing the upcoming meeting of the W3