Re: RDWG Charter Renewal

Thanks David, I added comments to the corresponding deliverable in the 
draft Charter for more discussion:
  - http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/charter4

Best,
   Shadi


On 8.4.2013 13:16, DavidSloan wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I also like the idea of identifying (say) alternate RDWG meetings as admin/managerial and research discussion, and Christos’ blog-post-as-minutes idea is a good one too. The concern would be if people only participated in the research discussion meetings, and management was left for only a couple of people to deal with!
>
> Also, Shadi reminded me that I’d expressed an interest in the "Tips for Accessibility-Aware Research" mentioned in the current charter. I think this would still be a valuable resource for RDWG to provide, and would be keen to see it retained as a planned activity and output of the group.
>
> It seems to me that such a deliverable could serve two purposes:
>
> 1. accessible dissemination of research output (including links to e.g. best practice in accessible document authoring and presentations)
> 2. guidance on considering the accessibility implications of innovations emerging from research activity (e.g. the development of tools, standards, investigations into specific relevant web technologies where a failure to consider diverse user needs might introduce new barriers). This second purpose will obviously be the more challenging one to address, and will probably require from the group a shared reflection of past innovations in web technology that have presented problems from an accessibility perspective.
>
> Dave
>
> From: Christos Kouroupetroglou [mailto:chris.kourou@gmail.com]
> Sent: 28 March 2013 00:46
> To: Yeliz Yesilada
> Cc: Simon Harper; RDWG
> Subject: Re: RDWG Charter Renewal
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I really like the idea of research discussion meetings and I'd like to tie this with the discussions we had now and then about a little bit more informal channel of communication and engagement from researchers. So, I was thinking that these discussions could lead to the writing of short blog posts summarizing the discussion and presenting the main outcomes whatever they are (research questions/ ideas/ debates/ etc.). Given that we allow comments on these blog posts, this could help the discussions to be kept alive and open to public even after their end.
>
> Regards,
> Christos
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------
> Dr. Christos Kouroupetroglou
> Web Accessibility Research & Engineering
> Website: http://aetos.it.teithe.gr/~kourou/
> Blog: http://a11y2020.wordpress.com/
>
> 2013/3/27 Yeliz Yesilada <yyeliz@metu.edu.tr>
> On 27 Mar 2013, at 17:23, Simon Harper wrote:
>
>> Further, we've noticed that meetings can be quite managerial and so it
>> is our desire to put the research back into them by making 1 or 2
>> meetings a month research discussions only? Does this sound like
>> something you'd like - again comments to the list please.
> +1
>
> I think this is a very good idea. It would be very good to discuss interesting research topics in the meetings.
>
> Regards,
> Yeliz.
>
>
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Shadi Abou-Zahra - http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/
Activity Lead, W3C/WAI International Program Office
Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG)
Research and Development Working Group (RDWG)

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