Community and Development
Charles McCathieNevile --charles@w3.org
Dan Brickley, Libby Miller, Liddy Nevile
Slides: http://www.w3.org/2002/Talks/0509-commun
Overview
- Different communities
- Distributed and Remote
- Success and Failure
- Applying the lessons: SWAD-Europe
Different Communities
- PC User Groups
- Customer communities
- from www-talk to rdf-interest and DCMI
- local groups - SWSW
What they did
- Made the Web
- Taught people to build computers
- Brought users and developers together
- development clusters
Remote
New, net-based communities
- Meeting the unseen faces
- Dealing with time-zone chaos
- Keeping a record
and Distributed
- Records - knowing the history
- Sharing learning at different levels
- Large scale stress testing
Success and failure
- Signal to Noise
- Required commitment
- Interconnected
- Feedback cycle
Applying the lessons
SWAD-Europe goals
Key approaches
- Outreach to developers
- Work in existing communities
- build and test and build