[Chapter-delegates] press release: World Wide Web's 20th BirthdayHighlights Value Of Open Internet

[Narelle.Clark at csiro.au]

Fabulous - we'll circulate this event to our members, and hopefully it won't be at too ridiculous a time...
Alejandro is spot on, however, about needing to remind people this being a global list!
Actually - what is "CET" as a time??? 
Sydney, Au is on AEDT right now, ie GMT+11 and this probably means this event is on about midnight our time?


[PS Alejandro Australians are increasingly marking St Patricks Day as yet another good excuse for a party. Especially since we're all working ridiculous hours these days. You'll see a small parade here, and green markings on various Irish influenced places. Thanks for the Mexican history lesson, too.]

[PPS Mon français n'est pas assez bon pour traduire l'ensemble de ce message!}

A bientot

Narelle
VP ISOC-AU

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerard Ross
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2009 4:48 AM
To: Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
Cc: Chapter Delegates
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] press release: World Wide Web's 20th BirthdayHighlights Value Of Open Internet

Hi Olivier

You're right on the money with the note about the proposal to create  
the Web. We may debate whether that is conception rather than birth,  
but in fact at CERN, they and Tim Berners-Lee have agreed on that  
particular event as the appropriate landmark to celebrate!

   http://info.cern.ch/www20/
   http://info.cern.ch/

And so tomorrow, Sir Tim will be back at CERN for the special  
celebrations. It will be webcast, by the way, at 14:00 CET (details at  
the link above).

Also, Rudi Vansnick has just reminded me that his fellow Beligian,  
Robert Caillau, was a key collaborator in the development of the Web.  
Apologies, Rudi, for failing to mention that in the press release, but  
for those wanting to learn more about the "world's first web surfer",  
there's a good profile on the CERN site:

   http://public.web.cern.ch/PUBLIC/en/People/Cailliau-en.html

Cheers everyone
- Gerard

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Gerard Ross
Senior Communications Manager
Internet Society
Email: ross at isoc.org