- From: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 17:07:45 -0400
- To: Andrei Sambra <andrei@fcns.eu>, public-webizen@w3.org
On 5/12/2014 1:15 PM, Andrei Sambra wrote: > Hi, > > On 05/12/2014 12:32 PM, Ian Jacobs wrote: >> On May 11, 2014, at 6:31 PM, "Charles McCathie Nevile" <chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote: >> >> >>>>> 3) What is a Webizen ID card? -1 until better understood >>>> It is an ID card with your webizen # on it. >>> this seems like high cost (postage) for little benefit. Most people old enough to spend $100 need a bigger wallet for the cards they have, not another card. >> Without more information about what purpose the card would serve I can't really say much. However, in general I think a "card" may be less useful than a digital badge, or a physical badge, or a sticker. Those things also do more to promote the program than something hidden in a wallet. > A digital card or a smartcard would be nice to have. I'm thinking more > in terms of a card with a PGP chip that we use to digitally sign data. > >>>>> 7) Webizen blog: +1 if moderated by Webizen representatives. >>> -1 Running a blog for a group of external people as a PR exercise is not a good idea. Paying $100 and getting *yet another* blog site is probably not either, unless you back it with W3C's persistence policy as a serious promise. And then it becomes a real commitment of resources, since you cannot afford to completely outsource the moderation. >>> >>> I would consider offering people the chance to publish stuff on the official W3C blog. And warn them that this means it has to be good enough. >>> >>> Which raises the question of why we think only english speakers deserve the full range of opportunities and benefits. >> I am concerned about opening up the W3C blog to a large number of people due to the moderation cost. > Why not invite the community to decide instead? The community will > appoint people to run (administer) the blog and they can also select who > the editors will be. W3C only has to stamp it with its seal of approval, > as long as the blog(s) respect a minimum set of guidelines. The task force met today and there is a revised proposal in the wiki. > > On a different note, I have been mentioning Webizen to a couple of > friends and their first reaction was towards the membership fee. I think > a lot of people would gladly participate if they were able to choose a > membership package that would fit them best. Basically, follow the same > tiered payment model that Kickstarter and Indiegogo use, where users > decide how much they are willing to invest, based on a predefined list > of perks they receive in exchange for their donation. We already say that the fee will be lower in developing countries. Is USD 100 considered a very high fee in developed countries? > > -- Andrei > >> Ian >> -- >> Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs >> Tel: +1 718 260 9447 >> >> >> >>
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