Re: Introduction and MyProfile question

On 18 May 2012 17:17, wyb mail <wybmail@hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hello all,
>
> I have just joined the group and some other groups of W3C
> As a supporter of open standards and as an Informatics student, combining
> among others social sciences and ICT,
> I am very curious about what you are doing and how you are working.
> I hope I can contribute something to the group though I am not really an
> engineer
>

Hi & Welcome!


>
> First thing I noticed looking at the different sites of the different
> groups:
>
> How things are organized is not always clear.
>

Community groups are a restively new part of the W3C, only being started in
the last year.  Feedback on how we can organize things better is always
welcome.


> It is not easy as a new comer to jump in right away
>

Appreciated.  Over time, I'd like to help work on how we can improve
things, make it more attractive, easier for new comers.


> Your group has already a nice starting page, the main page
>

Did you mean the home page or the start page of the wiki?  I recently redid
the wiki front page to a new template.


> that gives some overview and a handful of important links,
> but should't it be something that is standardized so that it becomes
> easier to participate quickly?
> so that it is clear right away what a group is doing at the moment, what
> the plans are and what it is in need for?
>

Definitely.  Community groups are less than a year old at the W3C, and I
think there are almost 100 now.  Feedback on how we can make this group and
others more welcoming would be appreciated.  Most of the people here are
volunteers, but personally I'm definitely keen to spend at least a few
hours a week improving things. :)


>
> I looked also at the MyProfile pages:
> Is it the idea that all data about a person I could see on some pages (day
> of birth, address, etc.) is public?
>

The basic idea is to use web standards (based on web architecture and HTTP
URIs) to build profiles for people that can communicate with other
networks, and log in to applications.

I think long term some data will be public, some only you can see, and some
only available to your friends (a bit like facebook).

Maybe Andrei Sambra (who wrote my profile) can give some more detail...



>
> Kind regards, Wyb
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