Re: "Webizen" task force re-convening - Please complete doodle poll

The poll has been stable for a few days.  There seems to be a clear 
consensus on 1 August at 8AM ET.  Details to follow.

Jeff

On 7/2/2014 3:56 PM, Jeff Jaffe wrote:
> This past spring we used this mailing list and a small task force to 
> define a Webizen proposal [1].  This was presented to the W3C 
> Membership several weeks ago.  The short summary is that while they 
> liked the concept of more individual affiliation with W3C, few people 
> liked the specifics of the proposal.  However, they asked that we 
> re-create the task force and come up with a better approach.
>
> There are now many more people subscribed to public-webizen who want 
> to work to make this successful, including over a dozen people that 
> were at the meeting last month.
>
> Coming up with a new proposal will require some art because different 
> folks had different reasons for rejecting [1].  For example, some 
> thought that [1] provided Webizens with too many benefits, others 
> thought there were too few benefits of importance, others thought that 
> the benefits were not that relevant.  The task force we have signed up 
> for this second round will help us get all the issues on the table, 
> and hopefully a consensus proposal.
>
> I anticipate about 5-6 one hour calls and some work in between calls 
> to build this new proposal.  The first call is important so we start 
> on the same page.  Please complete the doodle poll [2].
>
> The draft agenda for the first call is:
>
> 1. Goals for program
> 2. Success criteria for program
> 3. Target market and marketing study
> 4. Brainstorming
>
> To have a more efficient call, let me say a bit in email about these 
> agenda items.
>
> *Goals for the program*:  I was challenged to articulate the goals of 
> the program.  The questioner suggested 5 potential goals:
>
> A. W3C wants to establish itself as the primary steward of the Web, 
> and toward that goal wants to have individuals participate.
>
> B. Countries grant citizenships -- W3C  wants to create Webizens a la 
> Citizens
>
> C. W3C  wants to involve the wider community -- rather than be seen as 
> a place where only companies play
>
> D. W3C wants to create an additional revenue stream
>
> E. Degrading further: W3C  wants to sell t-shirts and coffee-mugs that 
> are "branded".
>
> My response was:
>
> "It is closest to C.
>
> In the wiki [1] we say 'The idea of the program is to allow 
> individuals to affiliate with the Web standards community  ... we seek 
> to make available a new means to congregate as a community.'"
>
> We should see if that is the consensus, or if the consensus is one of 
> the other points, or something else.
>
> *Success criteria for the program*:  This is an area which needs some 
> development.  My starting point (which is informal and not precise) is 
> that people who sign up find it useful and we don't lose any money.  
> Others have proposed more precise criteria, such as:
>
>   * More than 500 webizens in 2 years.
>   * Most of our Invited Experts become webizens in 2 years.
>
> *Marketing study.*  At some point we will need to do a marketing 
> study.  It is probably too early in this effort to create the study - 
> but I would like to discuss what we think is the minimum intensive 
> study which qualifies as a marketing study. I asked W3C Members to 
> fund a marketing study (dollars or people to perform the study) but I 
> received not volunteers.  The Team, with its meager resources 
> volunteered to undertake a study.  I've asked task forcers whether the 
> Team proposal is adequate, but I've gotten few responses.  So we'll 
> resolve it on the call.
>
> For your study, here is the Team proposal:
>
>   * We have 87K twitter followers.
>   * We could send them a survey monkey survey with a few questions,
>     and offer anyone who completes the survey 10 vaildator coupons.
>   * We estimate that we get 100 answers that way at relatively low cost.
>   * The Webizen task force would design the survey and the Team would
>     implement it.
>
> Jeff
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Webizen
> [2] http://doodle.com/ihry7d6vhh8dr9p6