- From: Peter Lubbers <peterlubbers@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 13:00:00 -0700
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: Andre Jay Meissner <ameissne@adobe.com>, "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CACCmPHz9UHppHjKMY+TpasM+Vr1P-gE_xwOuE0f_rGbTnfns0Q@mail.gmail.com>
deck chairs--what a great swag idea! Great job, Jay! On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > Hi, Jay– > > Thanks for this, and for organizing and running the Doc Sprint! I'm sorry > again for the schedule conflicts, and we hope to set up a better channel > for communication so that this doesn't happen again. > > Only 25% drop-off rate is excellent for a free event, especially one where > people are volunteering their time. This really shows the community spirit > there! > > This is a wonderfully detailed report; so much so, at first I confused it > for the blog post! > > I love the theme, and the event looks like it was really productive. I'd > like to figure out if some of that energy can be sustained on the community > telcons and IRC conversations, or if it's more of a function of the > face-to-face nature. > > BTW, I feel the pain of the Semantic MediaWiki and Dabblet problems, and > we hope to spend the summer focusing on alleviating some of that drag. > > Regards- > -Doug > > On 5/21/14 3:32 PM, Andre Jay Meissner wrote: > >> * >> * >> *Another successful Doc Sprint is done!* >> >> >> Last sunday another Adobe-hosted Doc Sprint >> <http://lanyrd.com/2014/wpds-dusseldorf/> [0] with 53 participants (70 >> >> registered/25% noshow) resulted in over 800 edits [1] to the wiki, >> onboarded about 10 new contributors and smoothly transitioned over to >> the official warm-up-party for famous beyond tellerrand conference >> <http://2014.beyondtellerrand.com/side-events> [2] in Düsseldorf, >> Germany. >> >> >> While the official blog posts are still being written, the positive >> feedback to the event on Twitter >> <https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23WPDS> [3] is already >> >> accessible for everybody. >> >> We received quite a bit of negative but constructive feedback on e.g. >> the shortcomings of Media Wiki or Dabblet (fixed >> <https://twitter.com/renoirb/statuses/468075731785101312> [4] in the >> >> meantime, thanks Renoir). Attendees that participated in the earlier Doc >> Sprints I had organized in Berlin and Zurich complained that >> shortcomings reported about 15 months back are still present to the >> project. For more details I encourage to read through the reports >> provided by our community experts below. >> >> >> I am including only some selected images with this report. As said, >> there will be blog posts on each http://blog.webplatform.org as well as >> http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform, later this or next week, with more… >> >> *Impressions from the event* >> >> >> …which we originally intended to run in a beach bar setting. Lacking a >> beach bar we ended up in a back yard under an old gas station from the >> 50s, where palm trees, monkeys, some nerd infrastructure and interwebs >> and an impressive handmade burger and awards-winning-sausages BBQ has >> been added. >> >> Before lunch Aaron Gustafson gave a very special and profound fun speech >> on the history of BBQ sauce (slides are online >> <http://de.slideshare.net/AaronGustafson/a-brief- >> history-of-barbecue-sauce> [5]), >> >> when some Chattanooga whiskey and BBQ sauce action even added more tasty >> details to the event. Not to mention the 480 beers, the cooler full of >> Red Bull (thanks for sponsoring!) and the numerous soft drinks that have >> been absorbed over the day and at the warm-up-party in the evening, >> where about 150 people partied until the police told us to go home… :D >> >> >> >> *Oh, the deck chairs!* >> >> >> Yeah. I love useful swag. There you go, we had produced 20 of them and >> gave them all away to our top contributors of the day. No leftovers - >> sorry! :) >> >> >> >> >> *What we accomplished (and oddities found)* >> >> >> Our community experts tracked the work of their focus group. Here are >> their reports: >> >> *HTML Elements focus group, led by Paul Verbeek >> <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/User:Paulv> (@Hierow):* >> >> >> The HTML elements group most of the time consisted of four people, Aaron >> Gustafson, Horia Dragomir, Michael Kühnel and Paul Verbeek. They worked >> on this list <http://wpd.mx/dushtml> [6], all in all 33 elements got >> >> documented. The group made decisions on what to do with deprecated >> elements (document them, stating it's deprecated an why, and write in >> the past tense). And they say they had a lot of fun! :) >> >> *JavaScript focus group, led by Rodney Rehm >> <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/User:Rodneyrehm> (@rodneyrehm):* >> >> >> The bit smaller JS focus group worked on the Number object >> <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/javascript/Number> [7], and also has >> >> put together a number of considerations and suggestions. Check out their >> detailled work output here >> <https://gist.github.com/rodneyrehm/b39aa66351bbd3e2371c#file-feedback-md >> > >> [8]. >> >> *Responsive Images and SVG focus group, led by Anselm Hannemann >> <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/User:Anselm> (@helloanselm):* >> >> >> The group focussed on img, picture and their attributes as well as a >> number of SVG elements and attributes, see their full results here >> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c1iMXbLln0x0Dmq4_ >> xFEpoL3MdkcVhXfLQDEaHvkKgY/edit?pli=1#gid=0> [9]. >> >> There are also a ton of bugs and issues noted in this comment >> <https://gist.github.com/anselmh/a9ce8154f1ca3e41d3c0#comment-1230917> >> [10] >> to the focus groups work document <http://wpd.mx/dushtmlsvg> [11]. >> >> *JS APIs focus group, led by Francesco Iovine >> <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/User:Franciov> (@franciov):* >> >> >> Francesco actually spent most of the day giving introductionary sessions >> to 10+ new contributors to WebPlatform.org, most of which joined the CSS >> focus group after. The JS APIs group added examples to the Web Storage >> API page <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/apis/web-storage> [12] and >> >> created and set up some missing API listing pages >> <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/apis> [13]: Ambient Light API, Device >> >> Orientation API, Screen Orientation API, Proximity API, Pointer Lock API. >> >> *The „Do what you want“ group led by Hans Christian Reinl >> <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/User:Drublic> (@drublic):* >> >> >> Hans and his group focussed on concepts, tutorials and beginners docs. 6 >> pages got revised and updated, 2 new pages have been created. 4 pages >> received updates and have still open ends, 2 others definetely need more >> work - find all details at the groups work document >> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oNlctt17l9zjEg- >> 2uQvzfDPcXDaR0PdWQWvJaz3yG6Q/edit#gid=0> >> [14]. >> >> *CSS focus group led by Christan Schaefer >> <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/User:Schepp> (@derSchepp):* >> >> >> This group identified the following pages as being imported from MDN or >> MSDN, and reworked them according to the style guide: >> >> selectors/pseudo-classes/:last-child >> selectors/pseudo-elements/::before >> selectors/first-letter >> selectors/first-line >> functions/translate() >> functions/translateX() >> functions/translateY() >> functions/translate3d() >> properties/font-variant >> properties/text-shadow >> properties/transform >> properties/object-fit >> properties/zoom >> properties/left >> properties/right >> syntax/important! >> >> They also went through *every single CSS property* and *removed all >> prefixed example code*, just leaving the unprefixed CSS in there. >> >> The group has found a lot of CSS property pages that had an empty "CSS >> Object Model Property" table cell. Or a wrong one, e.g. >> "element.style.". A few of those got corrected. >> A number of oddities have been noticed, including a redundant >> description of CSS font properties: >> - below the css/fonts/ path (e.g. >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/css/fonts/font-variant), as well as… >> - below the css/properties/ (e.g. >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/css/properties/font-variant). >> Is there some greater intent behind that or should we do a merge here? >> >> >> *Thank you so much!* >> >> >> This event would not have been possible without the help of 14 >> volunteers - huge thanks to Pascal Szewczyk @derPepo, Tomas Caspers >> @tcaspers, Kenneth Shinabery @KShinabery212, Daniel Connerth >> @DanielConnerth, Sven Wolfermann @maddesigns, David Kirstein @_frozenice >> and my partner in crime in organizing the event, Marc Thiele @marcthiele. >> >> Special thanks to all of our community experts listed above leading >> focus groups, foremost to our master of content, Francesco Iovine, who >> also did the introductionary talk. Props go out to Justin Avery of >> http://responsivedesign.is fame, Aaron Gustafson, and of course to all >> of our attendees. >> >> It has been a sunny, splendid, delicious, work intense and wonderful day! >> *Jay >> >> [0] http://lanyrd.com/2014/wpds-dusseldorf/ >> [1] According to our Doc Sprint Dashboard >> https://github.com/webplatform/DocSprintDashboard >> [2] http://2014.beyondtellerrand.com/side-events >> [3] https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23WPDS >> [4] https://twitter.com/renoirb/statuses/468075731785101312 >> [5] >> <http://de.slideshare.net/AaronGustafson/a-brief- >> history-of-barbecue-sauce>http://slideshare.net/AaronGustafson/a-brief- >> history-of-barbecue-sauce >> >> [6] http://wpd.mx/dushtml >> [7] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/javascript/Number >> [8] https://gist.github.com/rodneyrehm/b39aa66351bbd3e2371c#file- >> feedback-md >> [9] >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c1iMXbLln0x0Dmq4_ >> xFEpoL3MdkcVhXfLQDEaHvkKgY/edit?pli=1#gid=0 >> [10] https://gist.github.com/anselmh/a9ce8154f1ca3e41d3c0#comment-1230917 >> [11] http://wpd.mx/dushtmlsvg >> [12] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/apis/web-storage >> [13] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/apis >> [14] >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oNlctt17l9zjEg- >> 2uQvzfDPcXDaR0PdWQWvJaz3yG6Q/edit#gid=0 >> >> -- >> >> Andre Jay Meissner >> BDM/DevRel Web & Mobile, Adobe Systems GmbH, HR München HRB 111128 >> ajm@adobe.com | http://www.adobe.com/de >> >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/klick_ass >> My Blog: http://klick-ass.com >> My NPO: http://lab-up.org | http://OpenDeviceLab.com >> >> >> >> > > >
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