Re: W3C events classification

On April 2, 2014 at 12:53:43 PM, Arthur Barstow (art.barstow@nokia.com) wrote:
> [ Bcc w3c-ac-forum ]
>  
> On 4/1/14 5:36 PM, ext GALINDO Virginie wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Going through that tread, including Michael one related to Community Meetup, I think  
> that there are several events that you identified :
> > - workshop which objective is to call a large number of people to collectively progress  
> on a specific problem. Those ones cannot happen several times a year on the same topic.  
> So organizing it, with a long notice, allows to make sure you'll get all participants  
> is key. For those ones, 8 weeks for a call for contribution are a minimum.
> > - Events for education, evangelization of web technology (avoiding symposium name  
> on purpose), for which the content is selected by W3C team, with potential support of  
> members, sponsors... The public call for those ones can be scaled by the confidence W3C  
> team has to gather appropriate audience and speakers. Community Meetup fall into that  
> category, I guess. Meetup recently organized in Lyon and Tokyo fall also there. Depending  
> on the nature of your event (local or international audience), you may need 2 weeks of  
> 6 weeks.
> > - event for testing the open web platform implementation, which objective is to produce  
> feedbaks on specs and implementation. For those ones, you may need to make sure you have  
> as much as possible attendees, coming from all around the world. Announcement 8 weeks  
> in advance may be reasonable.
> >
> > The description of workshop and symposium in the process, without really making difference  
> between them (except that some workshop may be trying to "solve a pressing problem of  
> members") may be too light. Refining at least 3 categories of event, with i) their objective,  
> ii) the call for contribution minimum notice may be a possible solution. It should be  
> left aside the organization details (with or without program committee, with or without  
> rules on speaker selection) as this may be a case by case decision. But some recommended  
> good practice should be written (e.g. a workshop with an arbitrary program may have less  
> traction then a collective program, the more you want people, the longer your public  
> announcement should be...)
> >
> > What do you think ?
>  
> I think this is a good start Virginie so thanks for this!
>  
> I just created a new wiki doc that can be used to gather some related
> input as well as tracker product
> to for related Actions, Issues, etc.
> .
>  
> I encourage everyone to please use public-w3process for all followups.

With the help of some W3C folks (Robin and Dom), the Responsive Images CG ran a very successful meet up in Paris last year. Mozilla hosted the event. Happy to share our experience over a call. 

If you want to see details: 
https://github.com/ResponsiveImagesCG/paris-meetup  


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Marcos Caceres

Received on Wednesday, 2 April 2014 17:00:28 UTC