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- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 05:00:01 +0000
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The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Survey of W3C Community and Business Groups' (public) for Jan-Christoph Borchardt. --------------------------------- Overall Experience ---- Please rate your overall experience according to the following aspects: * Your overall experience with Community Groups and Business Groups.: [ 4 ++++ ] * Have you found the Community Groups and Business Groups documentation adequate (FAQ, policy summaries, etc.)?: [ 3 +++ ] Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): It’s ok, but the interface is partly really confusing. The most annoying thing is the limit on username length, which forces me to use a completely different username from anywhere also and hence also leads to log in problems sometimes when I forget how exactly I spelled it. --------------------------------- 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): There aren’t that many, so it’s not that hard. But the interface for doing it is a simple alphabetically sorted list, which makes not a lot of sense. Rather it should probably sort by popularity or participants, or prioritize by other groups which people of the community groups I am already in are also in. --------------------------------- 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): We use a mailing list – a Google Group outside of W3C though. It’s easier to sign up for that and it has a way better web interface to enable more people to participate. --------------------------------- 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, but if the mailing list interface would be better and we could use that as well then that would help a lot to move to more open technology. --------------------------------- 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 * (x) In discussion but not decided * ( ) No idea Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): We don’t know yet. First we have to stabilize the remoteStorage standard we work on. --------------------------------- 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): Not really, because especially the agreements are really long and painful to read. That’s basically also why we started »Terms of Service; Didn’t Read«: http://tos-dr.info – it would be cool if you could help us to rate your terms. --------------------------------- 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): It’s a bit overkill. Too much text, navigation elements all over the place, new pages for everything and little inline stuff, not clear what one is able to do. --------------------------------- 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): [ 1 + (lowest) ] * Updating your affiliation in your account (if you were asked to do so): [ 2 ++ ] Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): This is really painful. Especially the aforementioned low username character limit – this is really not necessary and arbitrarily makes registering harder. --------------------------------- Joining a Group ---- Please, select the case that applies to you and comment on your experience joining a group (via the click-through form). * ( ) I joined as a W3C Member employee, my request was processed by my organization's Advisory Committee Representative * (x) 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: [ 4 ++++ ] * Clarity of the process by which people express support for a group: [ 4 ++++ ] Comments (or a URI pointing to your comments): This is reasonably easy – just get people to join, that’s it. --------------------------------- 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): [ 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: * Radically simplify the interface * remove the username limit * use BrowserID / Mozilla Persona for sign in * have a mailing list interface at least as good as Google Mail * never use alerts for log in but only HTML forms (where my browser can remember my credentials) * enable us to change the left side links (Mailing list, Chat, Issue tracking) to custom destinations, as only use the wiki * remove the reset button on this survey and any forms you might have --------------------------------- 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 7 September 2012 at 04:58:27 U.T.C. by Jan-Christoph Borchardt 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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