RE: On-boarding headlight (INTERNAL)

I like all the points you guys have made in the thread so far.  And, on reflection, I agree about "webizen", Dom.

  -- Ann



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux [mailto:dom@w3.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 7:35 AM
> To: frode.kileng@telenor.com
> Cc: Bassetti, Ann; public-onboarding@w3.org
> Subject: Re: On-boarding headlight (INTERNAL)
> 
> On mar., 2014-03-11 at 13:52 +0000, frode.kileng@telenor.com wrote:
> > I agree with you Ann that there's a broader perspective and this was
> > also the reason I subscribed to the mailing list.
> >
> > On-boarding for me is a continuous process internally, spreading the
> > word of W3C and trying to increase our involvement. And in this
> > process, I'm surprised that there's so little "ready to use" material
> > about W3C facts, status, "plans". I guess there are others in big
> > corporations that faces the same issues.  And, IMHO, material of this
> > type is also helpful in the initial on-boarding process of new
> > members.
> 
> First, let me clarify that by "on-boarding", I meant making easier for
> new individuals to get started in W3C (i.e. at the individual level, not
> at the organization level).
> 
> I agree that increasing participation in general is a worthwhile goal;
> the reason my proposal has focused on "on-boarding" is that it seems to
> be that the biggest hurdle is to make it possible for people to get
> sufficiently involved that they will want to get more involved — once
> that barrier is down, it's much easier to iteratively reduce the other
> barriers.
> 
> Also, given how broad the topic of "increasing participation" is, I
> thought that a focused approach might be more tractable.
> 
> Finally, as Frode puts it, once you have maintained materials for
> newcomers, they are useful to everyone, not just the newbies.
> 
> But I certainly will not object to broader the scope of this task force
> as long as we don't spread ourselves too thin.
> 
> I'll look at the overlap between
> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Encouraging-Participation and
> https://www.w3.org/wiki/OnBoarding as suggested by Art.
> 
> I'm less keen on merging with Webizen which seems to be on a very
> different track — it seems to be not as much increasing participation in
> W3C standardization work, but creating a broader community around W3C
> values and goals.
> 
> > Regarding my contribution, my initial thoughts was to help identify
> > some "needs" based on my own experience.
> 
> That would be a terrific contribution, Frode; to be entirely honest, I
> had been hoping to pick your brain on these questions from the very
> first day I thought of that topic :)
> 
> Dom

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