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This questionnaire was open from 2011-11-22 to 2011-12-21.
17 answers have been received.
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Please provide the title of your session
Responder | Title |
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Nick Doty | Privacy |
Elika Etemad | Agile Standardization |
Kai Scheppe | Revisiting how W3C creates standards |
Robin Berjon | W3C Publications Ecosystem |
Dave Raggett | Internet of Things and the Web |
Deborah Dahl | Demos |
Jeff Jaffe | Fixing schedule delays |
Char James-Tanny | Accessibility Q&A and Tips |
Ted Leung | HTML5 and Games |
Alan Bird | W3C Social Business Jam |
James Graham | Browser Testing |
Steve Bratt | Measuring the Web |
Tab Atkins Jr. | Agile Standardization in CSS |
Hiroyuki Aizu | Multi-Screen Web |
Tantek Çelik | Semantic Syntaxes |
Alexandre Bertails | Linked Data |
Balaji Nerella Venkataramana | Web operating system challenges (Ideally it should have been named as "Browser as Operating System - Challenges" ) |
Did you find your breakout session useful? Please feel free to comment on techniques you used to make the session useful, observations that would have helped make it more useful, etc.
Choice | All responders |
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yes | 16 |
no | 1 |
Responder | Was the breakout useful? | Comments |
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Nick Doty | yes | Although we had little time to discuss privacy in Web standards generally, it uncovered a lot of interesting ideas and perspectives. |
Elika Etemad | yes | Tab and I prepared materials to present how the CSSWG operates, and Steve Zilles "chaired" the session. We took Q&A throughout. |
Kai Scheppe | yes | I used common moderation techniques. I adopted the role of moderator. Personally I have no problem with the W3C process, but see that others have a problem. I used this emotional detachment to be a better moderator. In the beginning I made a proposal for an agenda. Then I proposed a means to go through the agenda. In this case leading off with brainstorming. It quickly became clear that there were too many points to gather so that we would not get to a solution phase. I then announce this change in plans clearly to those present. I kept rambling under control. People tend to use a lot of words, but their core issue has already been voiced. I made sure to write the core issue onto the flip chart. I used this technique as a means to prompt the speaker to consolidate his thoughts into a single point. If there was a problem or in the interest of speed, I sometimes consolidated, using my own words and confirmed with the speaker that I caught their point correctly. Since we were in a brainstorming session, something that gathers points of view and ideas without judgement, I tried to limit all discussions save for clarification of a point. General comments: I wanted to structure the session as a strongly interactive session. I had noticed other sessions that were more sermon like. I prefer open discussion, for the quality of results. But it needs to be controlled tightly to prevent rambling. Time limits In a somewhat more mature discussion culture we could have a comment timer, forcing participants to make a point in, for example, 30 seconds. |
Robin Berjon | yes | Specific techniques weren't needed, we had a bunch of eager people in the room who wanted to make this work. |
Dave Raggett | yes | Demo's were very helpful in explaining the core ideas. |
Deborah Dahl | yes | |
Jeff Jaffe | yes | |
Char James-Tanny | no | Not enough prep (on my part, obviously!) because we changed the speaker that morning. Also not a good enough title because very few people outside of WAI showed up. |
Ted Leung | yes | |
Alan Bird | yes | |
James Graham | yes | |
Steve Bratt | yes | We have a small turnout, but very active discussion. The feedback I received on the Web Index will be helpful as we complete the first index in mid 2012. |
Tab Atkins Jr. | yes | |
Hiroyuki Aizu | yes | |
Tantek Çelik | yes | |
Alexandre Bertails | yes | Most of the comments are actually subsumed by the Linked Enterprise Data Workshop that happened last week :-) So no follow-up for this session. |
Balaji Nerella Venkataramana | yes | The session was not a great success but managed to bring out some important issues, if not all. We discussed only the gaps in W3C standards and role of W3C. The summary could be found at: http://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC2011/web_as_operating_system_challenges As I was not familiar with important participants of W3C I could not get them to attend the session. That left us with only handful of people who were aware of the subject. |
You organized a discussion at TPAC. Do you think that discussion should continue in some forum?
Choice | All responders |
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Results | |
yes | 13 |
no | 4 |
Responder | Does your session require followup? |
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Nick Doty | yes |
Elika Etemad | yes |
Kai Scheppe | yes |
Robin Berjon | yes |
Dave Raggett | yes |
Deborah Dahl | no |
Jeff Jaffe | yes |
Char James-Tanny | yes |
Ted Leung | yes |
Alan Bird | no |
James Graham | yes |
Steve Bratt | yes |
Tab Atkins Jr. | no |
Hiroyuki Aizu | yes |
Tantek Çelik | yes |
Alexandre Bertails | no |
Balaji Nerella Venkataramana | yes |
summary | by responder | by choice
Please indicate which venue or venues are the most appropriate for continuing the conversation. You can use the comment space to provide additional information or other options.
Choice | All responders |
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Results | |
Conversation will continue in or more W3C Groups (please indicate which one(s) below). | 11 |
Conversation should continue in a W3C group that doesn't yet exist (e.g., a community group) | 3 |
W3C staff should help identify forum for next steps | 2 |
Conversation is happening or should happen outside W3C | 2 |
Other (please indicate in the space below) | 5 |
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Responder | If you think that discussion needs to continue... | Other reason(s) |
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Nick Doty |
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I hope the Privacy Interest Group and public-privacy mailing list will be useful venues to continue this discussion. |
Elika Etemad |
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Some related discussion is happening in the Process CG. Others have happened informally as people ask us questions outside the meetings. |
Kai Scheppe |
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A community group was created already, shortly after the session. It is currently active and chaired by Chaals and myself. |
Robin Berjon |
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We picked spec-prod as the next steps list, and groups are discussing (and experimenting) with ideas. |
Dave Raggett |
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The discussion on service discovery is proceeding in the Web Intents Task Force organized jointly by DAP and Web Apps WGs. It may be appropriate to launch a CG to cover broader aspects for the Web of Things. This is something I will discuss with stakeholders. |
Deborah Dahl | ||
Jeff Jaffe |
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I think that the W3C CEO should lead an internal task force based on the output of this breakout session, develop recommendations, and then bring it back to the AC, AB, etc. |
Char James-Tanny |
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EO |
Ted Leung |
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HTML5 and Games Community Group |
Alan Bird |
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Jam was held, we need to determine what to do with the information that came from it. Harry is working with IBM to get a summary together. |
James Graham |
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Testing IG |
Steve Bratt |
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Tab Atkins Jr. | ||
Hiroyuki Aizu |
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Tantek Çelik |
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venues where discussion is continuing: W3C HTML Data Task Force, microformats community ( irc://irc.freenode.net/microformats , http://microformats.org/wiki ) |
Alexandre Bertails |
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Conversation is already happening, not really because of the breakout session. |
Balaji Nerella Venkataramana |
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Choice | Responders |
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Conversation will continue in or more W3C Groups (please indicate which one(s) below). |
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Conversation should continue in a W3C group that doesn't yet exist (e.g., a community group) |
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W3C staff should help identify forum for next steps |
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Conversation is happening or should happen outside W3C |
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Other (please indicate in the space below) |
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summary | by responder | by choice
Please indicate why.
Choice | All responders |
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The purpose of the session was just to share information and we accomplished that. | 4 |
The purpose of the session was to introduce a new topic, but no further discussion is necessary at this time. | |
We finished the discussion during TPAC. | |
Other (please explain in the space below). | 1 |
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Responder | If you do not think that discussion needs to continue... | Other reason(s) |
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Nick Doty | ||
Elika Etemad |
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Kai Scheppe |
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The purpose was to collect potential discussion points, in order to allow further work. It was clear from the outset that the topic could not be finished in one session. |
Robin Berjon | ||
Dave Raggett | ||
Deborah Dahl |
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Jeff Jaffe | ||
Char James-Tanny | ||
Ted Leung | ||
Alan Bird |
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James Graham | ||
Steve Bratt | ||
Tab Atkins Jr. |
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Hiroyuki Aizu | ||
Tantek Çelik | ||
Alexandre Bertails | ||
Balaji Nerella Venkataramana |
Choice | Responders |
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The purpose of the session was just to share information and we accomplished that. |
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The purpose of the session was to introduce a new topic, but no further discussion is necessary at this time. | |
We finished the discussion during TPAC. | |
Other (please explain in the space below). |
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Do you have suggestions for improving the organization of the breakout sessions? For example, by making them longer, or having a clear statement of goals up front, or more preparation, or more/less reporting, etc.
Responder | Improvements? |
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Nick Doty | I think longer would be helpful. Also, we had combined sessions that seemed similar (with some identity work), but that ended up just cutting the time we had to discuss each topic and splitting the group apart for some of it. |
Elika Etemad | I think it worked out great. |
Kai Scheppe | It depends on the goals of the session. Generally I believe that they are too short for actually creating solutions, but they can be used to clear up a topic and get ready for finding solutions. Overall, however, I think keeping time short is a good thing. Keeps the pressure on. I continue to believe that we need stronger moderators to run sessions, working group meetings etc., because the signal to noise ratio in meetings is frighteningly low and this costs enormous amounts of time. Philosophical discussions, discussions on basic values and ideas, should be relegated to another space, for example coffee breaks. Meetings/sessions should be clearly goal oriented and maximized for efficiency. |
Robin Berjon | In some of the other sessions it was not clear to the organisers that they were expected to chair the breakout, and some confusion ensued. It might be worth making that clearer next time around. |
Dave Raggett | |
Deborah Dahl | The idea of having breakout sessions was excellent. Everyone could attend sessions that involved their topics of interest and it was much easier to have a discussion with a smaller group. Some breakout session topics need preparation, for example, my session (demos). So I think it would have been better to have more balance between the sessions that were fixed ahead of time and the ones that were proposed at the meeting. Maybe half and half. Fixing more sessions ahead of time would also help people with corporate travel restrictions justify their attendance at TPAC. I proposed a couple of sessions, but one of them had to be cancelled when someone changed the time on the grid and I ended up double-booked. By the time I noticed it was too late to change it back. I don't know how to prevent that except by having more sessions with fixed times. I don't think we needed the full "report back" session at the end. I think it would have been better if the organizers just reported on outcomes that they they thought would really benefit from sharing with the whole group. How about making the grid be online? Having the grid on paper meant that you had to go physically look at it to see when things were scheduled, and it was difficult to get to the grid in the first place to put up the session. I realize there was an online informative version, but the normative grid was the paper one. |
Jeff Jaffe | |
Char James-Tanny | I liked how it was organized, although I was a bit confused...I thought the initial page where sessions were discussed included all of the sessions for that day. (In other words, I didn't realize that it was going to be possible to add more sessions to the day.) |
Ted Leung | |
Alan Bird | |
James Graham | The reporting at the end of the day did not seem especially helpful. Otherwise the length of the sessions was about right; it gave everyone a chance to get involved with the discussion but wasn't so long that people became bored. When individuals wanted more time for discussion of certain topics they provided an ideal starting point for hallway conversations. In the specific case of my session, better preparation could have improved the use of time, but that was largely my fault for deciding so late that running a session would be a good idea. Nevertheless it was helpful in communicating relevant information to interested parties as evidenced by the followup work that occurred outside of the formal sessions. |
Steve Bratt | There was not enough time between session. By the time the last of the participants arrived, we lost 15 mins. |
Tab Atkins Jr. | |
Hiroyuki Aizu | |
Tantek Çelik | |
Alexandre Bertails | Scribing was really difficult, because of a lot of unknown people. I believe we could improve that by just providing people a big sheet a paper with their usual nickname on it (even if they are not on IRC). This could be asked from the registration form (as we don't have this information in our database). |
Balaji Nerella Venkataramana | I liked the collaborative method that was used to trigger the thought. The simple process used to get the points to the board was just fascinating. It taught me how to run a collaborative session in such large gatherings. Thanks for the same. I enjoyed participating some of the sessions and hosting one. I feel, the format and duration were just right. It would have been great had this feedback form been available right after the session. One possibility that could be tried is making this process over web and allow people define topics ahead of time. For example that web site could be opened 3 weeks before TPAC and one week before TPAC registration ends. That would give people sufficient time to prepare for involved topics. Hosts would get be able to invite larger audience to the discussions (and more TPAC participants, probably ;-) ) |
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