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

Foster real development
Produce lead demonstrations
Keep Europe abreast of the world
and importantly, vice versa

Key approaches

Outreach to developers
Work in existing communities
build and test and build