- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 13:39:24 +0100
- To: public-evangelist@w3.org
Hi, Evangelizing Web Standards is getting boring. All we have is dry specifications, some web sites, geeky validators and some badges [1] in W3C's 20th century corporate design. I think it is time to catch up with the Web Accessibility Initiative and advertise Web Standards through Cooler Multimedia [2] which is part of W3C's mission [3]. WAI's approach to advertise its deliverables through music has proven to be very successful [4], hence I propose that the QA Acitivity launches a theme song contest as a first step to encourage the community to make web standards cooler through music. The contest should be public, hence all it takes is setting up a cool and convincing contest web site, a submission mailing list, a WBS poll to let the community vote on submissions and means to make the public aware of the contest. For the latter I propose to add a pointer to the contest web site on the various Validator's homepages. [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/logo-usage-20000308.html [2] http://davidmacd.com/web_pages/wcag_theme.htm [3] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Points/ [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003JulSep/0606.html regards.
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