rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

One of my #IDEA2009 is coming to life now here in Beijing. I’m speaking at the Beijing Linux Users Group again about a guanxi-compliant Webstandards.cn. Remember, the BLUG is totally not a LUG, its one of the best sets of people I’ve met working in this area in any city with great ideas and focus, and not just coming to get their printer working.

Here is the topic (and editable from the wiki):

Many websites in China are broken. They don’t validate against the current World Wide Web Consortium recommended standards, support language encoding badly, and don’t use widely accepted Creative Commons licenses for user generated content.

A traditional approach in the online English-based communities is to develop a campaign and collect signatures from those who support the action. This type of petition would then be provided to the website operators in order to show them how much people care about a problem. This approach is total FAIL in china.

Accelerating more businesses and developers to promote web standards in China requires a project and strategy that is rooted in guanxi and indirect marketing. By making web standards sexy like Apple products and using some type of public reputation system like Creative Commons licensing approach is the path to success. Site that fit a set of criteria are encouraged to apply a well-designed button to their website show they are part of the elite VIP culture of web standards.

This presentation explains webstandards.cn, who is involved and provides an invitation for all to make their web site standards compliant.

UPDATE: I forgot the time, date and address! Its tomorrow!

Time: 7pm
Date: Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Location: Traktirr Russian Restaurant, 5-15 DonZhiMen NeiDaJie,DongZhiMen west of DongZhiMen subway
Phone: 8407-8158

Map: here