Community and Business Groups: The First Year - Surveying operations

Dear member of the Community Council,
(bcc'ed to all Community and Business Groups' chairs' individual e-mail  
addresses)

We are soon reaching a milestone: the celebration of one year of operation  
for the W3C Community and Business Groups.

Almost one year ago, we launched Community and Business Groups [1]. We  
wanted to make it easier for people to bring their ideas to W3C. And they  
have. In May of this year we issued a press release [2] as participation  
rose above 1200. Today there are more than 1600 people from at least 46  
countries participating in more than 90 Community and Business Groups. The  
community's response to the program has been thrilling.

And the groups are getting work done. Here are just a few examples:

* the Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group, with more than 250  
participants today, seeks to accelerate the adoption of the Mobile Web as  
a compelling platform for the development of modern mobile web  
applications. They are working on a mobile profile, building a test suite,  
and held a face-to-face meeting in June. They are also providing feedback  
on the specifications of other W3C Working Groups.

* the Responsive Images Community Group, with nearly 150 participants,  
developed a proposal to enable authors to provide different sources for  
images at different sizes not based on resolution or network speed, but  
based on the judgment of the designer for what is the best image source at  
a particular breakpoint. They have submitted their proposal to the HTML  
Working Group for consideration as part of a future version of HTML.

* the JSON for Linking Data Community Group, with more than 40  
participants is bridging the worlds of JSON and linked data. The group  
published several specifications and is transferring them to the RDF Web  
Applications Working Group.

The program has met many of our goals for promoting innovation and  
inclusion. We are planning improvements to the program based on our  
experience so far. Today we are opening a two-month survey of the W3C  
Community and Business Groups. And we are inviting any Community Group or  
Business Group participant to take it:

   https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/2012CGBGsurvey/


There are several categories of questions in this survey, related to:
  * work flow
  * infrastructure
  * policies and agreements

Some questions will only be relevant to some participants (e.g., people  
who created a group or who chair a group). All questions are optional, so  
you are welcome to respond only to parts of the questionnaire.

Thank you for taking a moment to share your experience.
I would also appreciate if you could encourage the participants in the  
group(s) you chair to take that survey. It is open until the end of  
September.


[1] http://www.w3.org/2011/08/cg-pr.html.en
[2] http://www.w3.org/2012/04/membership2012.html.en

Coralie Mercier


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Received on Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:57:19 UTC