[wbs] response to 'Survey of W3C Community and Business Groups'

The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Survey of W3C
Community and Business Groups' (public) for Charles McCathieNevile.



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Overall Experience
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Please rate your overall experience according to the following aspects:

 * Your overall experience with Community Groups and Business Groups.: [ No
opinion ] 
 * Have you found the Community Groups and Business Groups documentation
adequate (FAQ, policy summaries, etc.)?: [ No opinion ] 

Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 





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Work Flow
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Questions 4 through 9 focus on work flow.




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Discovery
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Did you find it easy to discover groups of interest to you?


 * ( ) Yes
 * ( ) No

If not, why? (or any other comments): 





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Group Type Comparison
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If you have experience in both Working Group and Community or Business
Group, what advantages do you see for Working Groups? for Community or
Business Groups?

Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 





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Decision-making
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How is your Community or Business Group organized to make decisions? Have
you reached decisions on challenging problems? We'd love to hear your
successes or obstacles you've faced.
Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 





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Ensuring Progress
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Are you satisfied with how the Community or Business Group makes progress?
What would enable you to make better progress?

Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 
This depends on the group, and naturally especially the chairs. Chair
training is like ponies - we all want more... but...




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Transition to Working Group
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Do you expect to advance Community or Business Group deliverables to a W3C
Working Group? Please use the comment field for any information about the
transition (time frame, perceived obstacles or challenges).


 * (x) Yes
 * ( ) No
 * ( ) In discussion but not decided
 * ( ) No idea

Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 
I pushed the signage CG to look at this idea. For them, a new version of
SMIL that basically brings it into line with the rest of the Web (use JS,
maybe some more features but not necessarily) seems important. But first
the group needs to be reconstituted, and before that the BG needs to do the
work...




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Process, Patent and Copyright Policy, Contribution Agreements
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Do you have any suggestions for changes to the
Community Groups and Business Groups process,
Contributor Agreement, or
Final Specification Agreement that would facilitate participation?
Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 
Given that there is no clear idea of when you get to a final spec, and it
is too easy to game the process until then, situations like whatwgcg are
pretty scary in principle. But I am not sure how that could be improved...




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Overall User Interface
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Please rate the usability of the following aspects:

 * The home page of your Community or Business Group: [ No opinion ] 
 * Other parts of the Community and Business Group Web site.: [ 3 +++ ] 

Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 
There are some things where i am surprised by not finding a link I
expected, but I can't remember them right now. I should poke the w3process
group a bit so might find out...




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User Accounts
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Please rate the usability of any of the following actions you carried out.

 * Requesting an account (if you did so just for Community Groups and
Business Groups): [ No opinion ] 
 * Updating your affiliation in your account (if you were asked to do so):
[ No opinion ] 

Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 
Didn't do this (even when I changed - bad chaals).




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Joining a Group
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Please, select the case that applies to you and comment on your experience
joining a group (via the click-through form).


 * (x) I joined as a W3C Member employee, my request was processed by my
organization's Advisory Committee Representative
 * ( ) I joined as a non-W3C Member employee, after getting my
organization's patent and copyright commitment
 * ( ) I joined as an individual, unaffiliated with any organization

Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 
Mostly I joined as the AC rep... But I am in more than one group, so radio
buttons are sub-optimal.




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Creating a Group
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If you created a group, rate the usability of the following aspects:

 * Clarity of the process for proposing a group: [ 5 +++++ (highest) ] 
 * Clarity of the process by which people express support for a group: [ 5
+++++ (highest) ] 

Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 
It was pretty straightforward, and took minutes. Which is easy enough. If
anything, there should be a bigger push to say hello to other CGs and ask
if I am doing something they already do, even though I might then decide to
be the second group working on a hexagonal wheel after all (because mine
will have stripes so of course it will be faster ;) )




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Group Operations
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Rate the usability of any of the following operations you have carried out.

 * Choosing a chair (via checkboxes on the participants page): [ 5 +++++
(highest) ] 
 * Publishing a draft specification (available to Chairs only): [ No
opinion ] 
 * Publishing a final specification (available to Chairs only): [ No
opinion ] 
 * Making a final specification commitment (through the click-through
form): [ No opinion ] 

Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 
(Except I had a chair imposed on me by Dom :P )




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Suggestion Box
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What can we do to improve the experience of participating in a Community
Group or Business Group, tools you would find useful, or changes to enable
you to work more effectively?
Feedback: 
Cleaning the authentication so I don't have to log in differently would be
grand. Mostly it's pretty good though.

Has anyone posted a wiki page about running CGs in general - tips and traps
for chairs especially? That's something that I might do if someone
remembers to bug me about it... maybe when they are harassing me about
/Guide (yes Mr Jacobs, I am looking at you ;) )




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Testimonial
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To help W3C spread the word about Community and Business Groups, we invite
you to provide a 1-paragraph testimonial about your Community Group or
Business Group experience that you authorize us to publicize. This is
purely optional.
Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): 
Yeah, please make sure I do this before th survey closes (and in general,
that I fill it out fully :) )


These answers were last modified on 1 August 2012 at 21:13:24 U.T.C.
by Charles McCathieNevile

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