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- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 19:36:01 +0000
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The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Survey of W3C Community and Business Groups' (public) for Robert Sanderson. --------------------------------- Overall Experience ---- Please rate your overall experience according to the following aspects: * Your overall experience with Community Groups and Business Groups.: [ 5 +++++ (highest) ] * Have you found the Community Groups and Business Groups documentation adequate (FAQ, policy summaries, etc.)?: [ 3 +++ ] Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): Sometimes difficult to find information regarding policies, such as not having trackers on specification pages. --------------------------------- Work Flow ---- Questions 4 through 9 focus on work flow. --------------------------------- Discovery ---- Did you find it easy to discover groups of interest to you? * (x) Yes * ( ) No If not, why? (or any other comments): But will need further services as the list continues to grow. --------------------------------- Group Type Comparison ---- 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): - --------------------------------- Decision-making ---- 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): Currently benevolent dictatorship of the chairs. --------------------------------- Ensuring Progress ---- 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): Yes. Conference call facilities would be useful, but seems outside of the W3C's scope. --------------------------------- Transition to Working Group ---- 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): --------------------------------- Process, Patent and Copyright Policy, Contribution Agreements ---- 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): --------------------------------- Overall User Interface ---- Please rate the usability of the following aspects: * The home page of your Community or Business Group: [ 4 ++++ ] * Other parts of the Community and Business Group Web site.: [ 4 ++++ ] Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): It's okay, but limited by the technologies (vanilla mediawiki, wordpress) --------------------------------- User Accounts ---- 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): [ 3 +++ ] * Updating your affiliation in your account (if you were asked to do so): [ 3 +++ ] Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): As it involves people rather than being fully automated, it takes much longer than a simple challenge/response. Expected but the question is about "usability" --------------------------------- Joining a Group ---- 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): --------------------------------- Creating a Group ---- If you created a group, rate the usability of the following aspects: * Clarity of the process for proposing a group: [ 3 +++ ] * Clarity of the process by which people express support for a group: [ 4 ++++ ] Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): --------------------------------- Group Operations ---- Rate the usability of any of the following operations you have carried out. * Choosing a chair (via checkboxes on the participants page): [ 4 ++++ ] * Publishing a draft specification (available to Chairs only): [ 4 ++++ ] * 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): --------------------------------- Suggestion Box ---- 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: --------------------------------- Testimonial ---- 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): As a co-chair for the Open Annotation Community Group, I have found the context and credibility of the W3C to be invaluable in promoting adoption and engagement in the community. These answers were last modified on 1 August 2012 at 19:35:46 U.T.C. by Robert Sanderson Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed at https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/2012CGBGsurvey/ until 2012-09-30. Regards, The Automatic WBS Mailer
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