Re: What you can do to contribute to the webed community group

Chris,

I'm overdue on finishing a book on SVG for O'Reilly (I'm about six chapters
into it at this point), and have been looking for an excuse to broaden my
SVG load so that I can justify spending more time in that space. If you
don't mind me using samples I develop from one for the other, this may be
just the excuse I've been looking for. Do you have anything particular in
mind, or are you just thinking about building out a "practical SVG" space?
This would also be a good chance for me to work with educators to put
together a wish-list of SVG type applications that may have utility in the
education space.

Kurt


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Kurt Cagle
Invited Expert, XForms Working Group, W3C
Managing Editor, XMLToday.org
kurt.cagle@gmail.com
443-837-8725




On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com> wrote:

> Hello, dear web education folk,
>
> I hope you are well today.
>
> A few new people have asked me in the last week or so what they can do to
> contribute, so I thought I would drop y'all a quick mail about it.
>
> the blurb at the top of http://www.w3.org/community/webed/ briefly
> outlines the things we are aiming to do in this community group. The most
> important immediate task is creating more content for our resources, which
> are currently on the Wiki, at
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Main_Page.
>
> Yes, it looks a bit ugly right now, but we will soon be provided with a
> nice looking publishing platform to put all this on, along with tools and
> other learning resources. Until then, I don't expect outreach work to
> really start properly, but we can still prepare material in readiness. You
> can:
>
> 1. Write new tutorials, along the lines of the proposed updates listed at
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/WSC_proposed_updates.
>
> I really want people to write stuff about JavaScript and SVG as a priority
> (see relevant sections)
>
> 2. Write outlines for new sections of articles. I especially need people
> to spec out
>
> *
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/WSC_proposed_updates#Planned_New_section_to_replace_.22Web_Design_Concepts.22_-_to_be_called_.22Planning_a_web_site.22
> *
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/WSC_proposed_updates#Accessibility_specifics
> *
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/WSC_proposed_updates#Adaptive_design_and_development_for_Mobile_and_other_alternative_browsing_devices
>
> As these have only been done very roughly and without much thought.
>
>
> 3. Write teaching materials, like the prototype I did - see
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Main_Page#Teaching_materials. The
> idea here would be to go through each course at
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Main_Page#Curriculum_structuresand write a set of teaching materials for each learning competency.
>
>
> Also, please do give me feedback on the new materials that I keep
> e-mailing around. And feel free to mail your own creations around for
> feedback!
>
>
> There is also some translation activity going on - see
>
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Es/
> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Turkish_international_project
>
> If you want to help translate our material into another language, please
> let us know!
>
> And feel free to ask me any questions you like.
>
> Chris Mills
> Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software
> Co-chair, web education community group, W3C
>
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