TantekBio


Tantek Bio


 

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Dedicated to advancing open standards and simpler data formats for the Web, Tantek Çelik is Web Standards Lead at Mozilla where he works with several web standards groups and edits specifications.

Previously he worked independently with numerous clients, such as Mozilla and Revision3, on web standards leadership and HTML5 upgrades. He is the author of HTML5 Now: A Step-By-Step Tutorial for Getting Started Today (New Riders: 2010).

Tantek co-founded both indieweb.org and microformats.org communities after many years of experience contributing to, writing, and editing specifications at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He also served on the Open Web Foundation (OWF) board and co-founded BarCamp, a global phenomenon of hundreds of user-generated conferences.

In 2003 Tantek collaborated with Eric Meyer & Matt Mullenweg in founding GMPG and invention of the XHTML Friends Network (XFN), which has since become the most popular decentralized social network format in the history of the Web with billions of relationships.

In 2004 Tantek proposed hCard for representing people and organizations on the Web, which has since similarly become the most popular web profile format, supported by hundreds of millions of user profiles across dozens of social networks. During his years as Technorati's Chief Technologist, Tantek played an active role in refining and evangelizing these microformats, guiding them from wiki proposals to well-recognized open web formats endorsed and implemented by numerous individuals, small organizations, and major companies ranging from AOL to Yahoo.

Previously Tantek was a veteran representative to the W3C for Microsoft, where he also helped lead the development of the award-winning Internet Explorer 5 for Macintosh, the first web browser to bring widespread standards compliant HTML4 + CSS1 + PNG1 support to millions of users worldwide in the year 2000.

Tantek has Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as a strong background in human interface and user-centered design from his many years at Apple Computer. He shares his thoughts on tantek.com and his Twitter: twitter.com/t.

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shorter bio

Tantek Çelik has been active in open web standards innovation, development, and advocacy for over 20 years. He is currently Web Standards Lead at Mozilla, community leader of indieweb.org & microformats.org, and participates in the World Wide Consortium (W3C) Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group. He is the author of HTML5 Now: A Step-By-Step Tutorial for Getting Started Today (New Riders: 2010). He co-edited the W3C Recommendations CSS 2.1, CSS3 Color, & CSS3 UI, co-founded GMPGBarCampIndieWeb.org, and was Chief Technologist at Technorati. Tantek lives in San Francisco, and has bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as a strong background in human interface and user-centered design from his many years at Apple Computer. He shares his thoughts at tantek.com.

 

even shorter bio

Tantek Çelik has been active in open web standards development or over 20 years. He is Web Standards Lead at Mozilla, co-founder and a community manager of indieweb.org & microformats.org, and participates in the W3C CSS Working Group. He co-edited the W3C Recommendations CSS 2.1, CSS3 Color, & CSS3 UI, and co-founded GMPG & BarCamp. Tantek is also the author of "HTML5 Now: A Step-By-Step Tutorial for Getting Started Today" (New Riders). He shares his thoughts at tantek.com.

 

super brief text-only bio

Tantek created microformats in 2004, subsequently co-founding the microformats.org & barcamp.org communities in 2005, and indieweb.org in 2011. As Mozilla's Web Standards Lead, he develops open standards at microformats.org, W3C, WHATWG, IETF and other standards communities. He is the author of "HTML5 Now: A Step-By-Step Tutorial for Getting Started Today" (New Riders). Tantek is dedicated to advancing open standards and simpler data formats for the Web and shares his thoughts at tantek.com.

 


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