Guild Events

Upcoming Online Guild Events

Town Hall Meeting

Town Hall meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of every month, unless otherwise noted. All Guild members are invited to this online meeting at HWG Interactive, where they can discuss the Guild with other members and the Governing Board.

Dates:	The Fourth Thursday of every month.
Time:	6:30 p.m. PST, 9:30 p.m. EST
Server:	HWG Interactive, http://interact.hwg.org/
IRC:	irc.hwg.org, port 6667
Channel:	#townhall

To connect, either go to the URL above and use the Java-based client available via the web, or use your favorite IRC client and join channel #meeting.

Ongoing Guild Events

NetDay Project

The HWG endorses NetDay and urges all members to become involved with bringing internet connectivity to their local schools.

World Wide Web Consortium

The HWG is active in several working groups of the World Wide Web Consortium. To obtain information about this activity please e-mail site contacts Please put 'W3C Working Groups Question' in the subject line.

Past Guild Events

BJS/Search National Conference: Justice, E-Government, and the Internet
Dallas, Texas
June 26-28, 2000

Ann Navarro hosted several panel discussions throughout the event.

WinWriters Online Help Conference
San Diego, CA
Mar 5 - Mar 9, 2000

We had a booth at this conference and presented a workshop on "Using XHTML for Universal Display and Accessibility".

SHARE: Practical Information for IT Professionals
Anaheim, CA
Mar 5 - Mar 10, 2000

HWG President and AWARE Center director Kynn Bartlett presented "Meeting the Accessibility Challenge: Can Everyone Use Your Web Site?" on March 6.

CSUN's International Conference on Technology and People with Disabilities
Northridge, CA
March 20-25, 2000

The Guild sponsored a booth at this event.

WWW9
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
May 15 - May 19, 2000

We presented a workshop at this conference entitled "Crafting and Reforming HTML Pages as XHTML."

VBits
Chicago, IL
May 24, 2000

Frank Boumphrey presented "Building XML applications using VB".

XTech 2000 Europe
Paris, France
June 14, 2000

Frank Boumphrey presented "Using XML in Medical Internet applications".

Intranets 2000
San Jose, CA
Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2000

We presented two workshops at this conference, on 'Basic XML' and 'Advanced HTML authoring'.

VBits
San Francisco, CA
Feb 12 - Feb 17, 2000

Frank Boumphrey spoke on using VB and XML to create web applications.

Builder.com Live! December 1999

Your president Kynn Bartlett spoke on accessibility, and Frank Boumphrey discussed XML databases.

Events Archive

Repository for events from years past.

FedWeb December 1998 Tutorials

The conference was unfortunately cancelled, but you can read HWG presenter Kynn Bartlett's session outline and handouts here.

April 1998 was Accessibilty Month

A special month-long focus on the importance of accessible web design.

Spring Internet World 1998

Attendees of our HWG get-together met the Guild's officers and fellow members in Los Angeles, March 11 to 13th.