Session details: Developers Track
Oshani Seneviratne, Lalana Kagal, Andrei Vlad Sambra · The Web Conference · 2016
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the rebooted Developers Day, at with WWW 2016.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 have rebooted the Developers Day at the World Wide Web Conference.The presenters at Developers Day are developers who have interesting open-source software to showcase to the Web developer community. The submissions that were accepted for presentation clearly showed an innovative use of technology, a potential to advance the state of the art of the Web, and a real-world application of the software. Some of the presentations include social bots, Web-based payment protocols, collaborative web environments, tracking changes in large knowledge organization systems, and testing frameworks suited for the Web. All of these topics are timely and are of interest to the general Web developer community.The program for the Developers Day consists of a round of lightning talks followed by Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions where attendees are 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 believe that such developer discourse is essential for the advancement of the Web.