[Bug 19410] Please add "About page"

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=19410

Chris Mills <cmills@w3.org> changed:

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Proposed text for about page


What is Webplatform.org?

Webplatform.org is a community-driven documentation site mainly focused on
client-side web technologies. It was founded by several stewards, including
Opera, Mozilla, Google, the W3C, Microsoft, Adobe, HP, Nokia and Facebook, with
the aim of creating a definitive resource for web developers and designers to
find all the information they need to do their job. The main part of the site
is a wiki containing tutorials, concept articles and reference docs, but we
also have a Q&A section, blog, and IRC chat, and we are aiming to expand out
capabilities in the future to include live code examples, resources for
educators, and more.

How the site was created

About a year ago, a small group – including people of W3C, Opera, Microsoft,
Mozilla, Google and others – started talking about a new documentation project
for information covering open web standards. Yes, there are lots of
documentation sites already available, but some of them are low quality,
out-of-date, or both. Some have great information about some subjects, but not
others. And generally it takes web developers a lot of time to find all the
information they want. It would be great for all the information providers to
get together and produce one authoritative resource to tell web designers and
developers all the information they need to know to do their job.

The idea was very warmly received by all parties involved, and so we all
started solving problems together, working out an infrastructure for the
project that would scale well and handle lots of different contributors,
working out marketing and business plans, and putting together a large list of
content from different resources – such as HTML5 rocks, MSDN, MDN and Opera’s
web standards curriculum – that would act as seed content to get the project
started.

Webplatform.org philosophy

Ideally, we want this to be an ever-evolving project controlled and written by
the community, rather than a bunch of big name vendors telling everyone what to
do. The stewards are just there to provide structure and funding. We want
everyone involved in the web community to feel they have to right to contribute
new material and improve existing articles. It's your web, documented your way.

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