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The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Making W3C the place for new Web standards' (public) for Karl Dubost. --------------------------------- About You ---- Please check all that apply to let us know about your primary roles with respect to W3C work. * [ ] application developer * [ ] web designer * [ ] browser or other software developer * [x] standards professional * [ ] current or former incubator group chair * [x] other (see below) Other role not listed above: Director of technologis --------------------------------- W3C as Host for New Work ---- Do you think W3C would be an appropriate host for this work? Please use the comment box for any additional detail, such as why you think W3C would make an appropriate host, why it would not, what we should change to make W3C a more interesting option, why you think another organization would be a better fit, etc. * (x) Yes * ( ) No Additional detail: The W3C *could* be an appropriate host. Unfortunately, often it is very intimidating for many developers. It seems that you will enter in a huge machine that will slow down your work, where you will lose the simple flexibility of just putting your stuff online. When the Web started, it was a bunch of individuals interested by the idea and Tim advocating on forums (mailing-lists, usenet and conferences). Now for starting something, it requires a long list of validation, it takes months before being able to start working, etc. It would be a lot lighter if people could start working on something right away and then figure out the details of charters, Working Group, companies commitments, etc later on. Basically you don't get married at the first sight (and also rarely in love), you get to know each other, you dance together, go on a date, and after a few years, you get married. :) --------------------------------- Elements of W3C Offering ---- Please rank the importance of the following elements for the sort of work or work environment you want. Use the comment field for other important elements. * Importance of royalty-free patent policy for pre-standards documents: [ 2 ++ ] * Importance of open document license: [ 7 +++++++ (highest) ] * Importance of individual (not organizational) licensing and other commitments: [ 6 ++++++ ] * Importance of zero (or nominal) fee to participate: [ 7 +++++++ (highest) ] * Importance of easy transition to the W3C Recommendation Track: [ 5 +++++ ] * Importance of connectivity with significant players in industry, research, standards, government (while maintaining vendor neutrality): [ 2 ++ ] * Importance of technical review by broader community: [ 2 ++ ] * Importance of W3C technical staff to help mentor, connect, and facilitate: [ 4 ++++ ] * Importance of communications and marketing support from W3C staff: [ 2 ++ ] * Importance of W3C brand for your customers or audience: [ 5 +++++ ] Other important components to an offering that would interest you: --------------------------------- Meetings and communications ---- Please rank the importance of the following meeting and communications options. A low value means "don't like or want" a high value means "this is important to the way I work". Please use the comment space for additional detail or other important meeting and communications options. * Importance of teleconferences: [ 2 ++ ] * Importance of face-to-face meetings (say, 2-3 annually): [ 5 +++++ ] * Importance of video conferences: [ 3 +++ ] * Importance of mailing lists (spam-controlled): [ 7 +++++++ (highest) ] * Importance of irc: [ 5 +++++ ] * Importance of chat system(s) other than IRC (details in comment box): [ 5 +++++ ] * Importance of blog: [ 6 ++++++ ] * Importance of microblog: [ 7 +++++++ (highest) ] * Importance of wiki: [ 6 ++++++ ] * Importance of rss or atom feeds: [ 7 +++++++ (highest) ] * Importance of calendar feeds: [ 6 ++++++ ] Additional detail or other important meeting and communications options: irc is important but less and less used by geeks, people are using microblogging and IM. --------------------------------- Additional Infrastructure ---- Beyond the communications tools listed above, what infrastructure services do you expect while doing your work? Please rank the importance of the following items, and if you have used the W3C infrastructure, let us know your level of satisfaction. If there are other important elements of infrastructure not listed here, please let us know in the comment box below. * ability to publish on w3.org Importance: [ 6 ++++++ ] | Satisfaction: [ 4 ++++ ] | * issue / action tracking Importance: [ 7 +++++++ (highest) ] | Satisfaction: [ 6 ++++++ ] | * irc bots for connectivity with bridge, minutes, issue tracker Importance: [ 7 +++++++ (highest) ] | Satisfaction: [ 6 ++++++ ] | * version control system (cvs, mercurial) Importance: [ 6 ++++++ ] | Satisfaction: [ 2 ++ ] | * tool for accepting review comments Importance: [ 7 +++++++ (highest) ] | Satisfaction: [ 3 +++ ] | * tool for managing how review comments have been handled Importance: [ 6 ++++++ ] | Satisfaction: [ 3 +++ ] | * test harness Importance: [ 4 ++++ ] | Satisfaction: [ 3 +++ ] | Additional infrastructure: there are better version control system out there in terms of design and social features. W3C has to be able to give an experience for users which is similar. These answers were last modified on 3 July 2010 at 11:20:51 U.T.C. by Karl Dubost Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed at http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/newstd2/ until 2010-11-15. Regards, The Automatic WBS Mailer
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