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- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:09:01 +0000
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The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Survey of W3C Community and Business Groups' (public) for Milan Young. --------------------------------- Overall Experience ---- Please rate your overall experience according to the following aspects: * Your overall experience with Community Groups and Business Groups.: [ 1 + (lowest) ] * Have you found the Community Groups and Business Groups documentation adequate (FAQ, policy summaries, etc.)?: [ No opinion ] Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): CGs provide a perceived endorsement from the W3C for unmoderated discussions and specifications. While I understand that there may be some use cases for lightweight discussion forums, I do not believe the material resulting from such forums should be accessible to those outside the group. --------------------------------- 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): --------------------------------- 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): The lack of structure around decision making is the downfall of a CG. Allowing charters to give complete authority to the chair is a recipe for a dictatorship. There must be some irrevocable requirement for seeking consensus. --------------------------------- 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): The progress of the CG I was involved in is a case of one step forward and two steps backwards. If it were in my power I would reset the state of the groups work back to the beginning. --------------------------------- 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): See above --------------------------------- 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): --------------------------------- 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): [ 1 + (lowest) ] * 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): Our charter prevented us from choosing a chair. It was hardcoded in the charter. --------------------------------- 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: See above --------------------------------- 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): If you will permit a negative testimonial, please let me know. These answers were last modified on 7 September 2012 at 00:06:16 U.T.C. by Milan Young 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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