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- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:09:01 +0000
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The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Survey of W3C Community and Business Groups' (public) for Karl Dubost. --------------------------------- Overall Experience ---- Please rate your overall experience according to the following aspects: * Your overall experience with Community Groups and Business Groups.: [ 3 +++ ] * Have you found the Community Groups and Business Groups documentation adequate (FAQ, policy summaries, etc.)?: [ 4 ++++ ] Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): --------------------------------- Work Flow ---- Questions 4 through 9 focus on work flow. --------------------------------- Discovery ---- Did you find it easy to discover groups of interest to you? * ( ) Yes * (x) No If not, why? (or any other comments): Once a community group is proposed, there should be a kind of blog post where it is explained why the group is proposed, what are the initial plans etc. Once the group has been created there should be a kind of mandatory first blog post, wiki page restating the purpose of the group. Categorization might also help to find the group among the 100+ ones. Free tagging? --------------------------------- 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): For communities the possibility to aggregate around a topic and work together. What is not clear is how this helps people to start working on things. Basically the impression is that if you know how w3c operates already it is a lot easier, but if not you might have pain. Suggestion: Testing with a few users who are completely agnostic to W3C site and/or participation. And identify the type of questions that arises --------------------------------- 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): N/A --------------------------------- 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): Most of the groups I have been in… are sleeping. I'm not putting the blame on anyone or any structure. People have a life, and there is enough will or need, things make progress. It's normal. As for ensuring progress, the chair is kind of key. Not the most knowledgeable person but the most community focused person in the group with time in his/her hands. Rare bird. --------------------------------- 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). * ( ) Yes * ( ) No * ( ) In discussion but not decided * (x) No idea Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): As it depends of the group context. --------------------------------- 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): nope. --------------------------------- Overall User Interface ---- Please rate the usability of the following aspects: * The home page of your Community or Business Group: [ 2 ++ ] * Other parts of the Community and Business Group Web site.: [ 2 ++ ] Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): Not pleasant. But this is not very constructive. To be constructive it would require for me to analyze why in depth. Takes time. Sorry. --------------------------------- 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): [ 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): --------------------------------- 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: [ No opinion ] * Clarity of the process by which people express support for a group: [ No opinion ] 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): [ No opinion ] * 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): --------------------------------- 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): These answers were last modified on 3 August 2012 at 17:06:08 U.T.C. by Karl Dubost 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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