13:28:19 RRSAgent has joined #webizen 13:28:19 logging to http://www.w3.org/2014/08/20-webizen-irc 13:28:21 Zakim has joined #webizen 13:28:31 RRSAgent, make logs public 13:32:01 agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webizen/2014Aug/0040.html 13:32:34 -> http://www.w3.org/2014/08/01-webizen-minutes.html Previous (2014-08-20) 13:32:48 meeting: Webizen Task Force teleconference 13:32:52 chair: JeffJaffe 13:36:00 agenda+ Run through the wiki to make sure we are aligned on our proposal 13:36:07 agenda+ Discussion of marketing survey 13:36:32 Discussion of email thread about "representation" including how to represent this thread in the survey 13:36:40 agenda+ Discussion of email thread about "representation" including how to represent this thread in the survey 13:40:01 regrets: ChristopheGuéret, VirginieGalindo, VagnerDiniz 13:47:51 Zakim, this will be webiz 13:47:51 ok, koalie; I see Team_JEFF(WEBIZ)10:00AM scheduled to start in 13 minutes 13:56:27 ahaller2 has joined #webizen 13:57:15 veronica has joined #webizen 13:57:20 scribenick: koalie 13:59:20 Team_JEFF(WEBIZ)10:00AM has now started 13:59:27 + +49.302.389.5.aaaa 14:00:01 + +61.4.331.2.aabb 14:00:03 Julian_ has joined #webizen 14:00:05 Georg has joined #webizen 14:00:12 +koalie 14:00:14 jeff has joined #webizen 14:00:34 Zakim, aaaa is GeorgRehm 14:00:34 +GeorgRehm; got it 14:00:52 zakim, +61.4.331 is ahaller2 14:00:52 +ahaller2; got it 14:01:02 +??P7 14:01:05 +BrianKardell 14:01:09 +Jeff 14:01:19 zakim, code? 14:01:19 the conference code is 93249 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 sip:zakim@voip.w3.org), veronica 14:01:26 Zakim, nick ahaller2 is ArminHaller 14:01:26 sorry, koalie, I do not see a party named 'ArminHaller' 14:01:39 + +44.778.839.aacc 14:01:48 Zakim, associate nick ahaller2 with ArminHaller 14:01:49 I don't understand you, koalie 14:02:00 olleo has joined #webizen 14:02:07 +Veronica 14:02:08 +??P14 14:02:15 https://www.w3.org/wiki/Webizen 14:02:22 Zakim, ??P14 is michiell 14:02:22 +michiell; got it 14:02:33 Zakim, aacc is Julian 14:02:33 +Julian; got it 14:02:40 Hi all 14:02:44 MarkCrawford has joined #Webizen 14:03:21 + +1.703.670.aadd 14:03:30 Zakim, aadd is MarkCrawford 14:03:30 +MarkCrawford; got it 14:03:33 BTW: I'm using the SIP bridge succesfully 14:03:59 Zakim, agenda? 14:03:59 I see 3 items remaining on the agenda: 14:04:00 1. Run through the wiki to make sure we are aligned on our proposal [from koalie] 14:04:00 2. Discussion of marketing survey [from koalie] 14:04:00 3. Discussion of email thread about "representation" including how to represent this thread in the survey [from koalie] 14:04:10 LJWatson has joined #webizen 14:04:51 [Jeff Jaffe goes over agenda] 14:05:23 Jeff: I'd like to exit today's meeting with a consensus on how we might include the representation to the survey 14:05:52 ... Mark pointed out that the marketing survey questions should be submitted to our Advisory Committee as well as twitter followers 14:05:56 Zakim, take up item 1 14:05:56 agendum 1. "Run through the wiki to make sure we are aligned on our proposal" taken up [from koalie] 14:06:11 Jeff: Last time we talked about the mission and success criteria 14:06:17 ... let's start with goals 14:06:25 -> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Webizen#Goals Goals of program 14:06:33 Jeff: Any modification? 14:07:14 Jeff: seeing no queue, I'll assume those are agreed for now 14:08:13 [dial 41# to raise hand] 14:08:24 [dial 42# to lower hand] 14:08:45 -> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Webizen#Mission Missions of the program 14:08:52 Jeff: no comment on missions? 14:09:04 -> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Webizen#Success_criteria 14:09:05 q+ 14:09:19 Jeff: Any suggestion on deleting, adding success criteria? 14:09:37 Olle: Success criteria should go back to goals 14:09:41 ... and bring value to W3C 14:09:53 AnnBassetti has joined #webizen 14:10:14 ... increase review, spec writers, if we don't reach those goals, I don't see a value in the program 14:10:49 Zakim, ??P7 is OlleOlsson 14:10:49 +OlleOlsson; got it 14:10:53 +Ann 14:10:56 Q+ 14:10:59 Jeff: Feel free to edit the wiki 14:11:02 ack m 14:11:07 q- o 14:11:41 Michiell: based on experience with frontend dev, there's a certain disappointment with spec development 14:11:46 ... they love the Web but not the W3C 14:11:56 ... it's weird but it's tangibly out there when I organise events 14:12:37 ... get the foot folks of the industry who are apparently in love with browsers but not W3C anymore; there's a love/hate relationship, to change the idea the people have of W3c would be a goal for me as well 14:12:51 Jeff: Excellent idea. I believe it was always intended. 14:13:31 ... the language we use in the wiki --attract stakeholders, etc, there's nothing wrong with adding "build appreciation" 14:13:39 ... feel free to add the bullet to the wiki 14:14:07 ... if you don't do it, I'll take care of it in the next few days 14:14:09 ack b 14:14:26 Brian: Careful with the language 14:14:34 ... don't sound too bureaucratic 14:14:36 -BrianKardell 14:14:51 q? 14:14:58 +BrianKardell 14:15:20 Zakim, close this item 14:15:20 agendum 1 closed 14:15:21 I see 2 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is 14:15:21 2. Discussion of marketing survey [from koalie] 14:15:23 Zakim, next item 14:15:23 agendum 2. "Discussion of marketing survey" taken up [from koalie] 14:15:42 Q+ 14:16:16 -> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Webizen#Target_market_and_marketing_study Target market and marketing study 14:16:24 ack m 14:16:49 Michiell: Not being a Twitter user, huge bias in asking this huge echo chamber, other channel active as well? 14:17:01 ... do you need to be on Twitter to answer? 14:17:11 ... many of the people I represent don't have twitter accounts 14:17:15 -BrianKardell 14:17:31 +BrianKardell 14:18:10 q+ 14:18:14 -BrianKardell 14:18:19 q+ 14:18:34 [Jeff gives info on context] 14:18:54 Jeff: We're open to different approaches 14:19:11 Michiell: ISOC people care about the net but I guess the Web also 14:19:16 ... it's beyond the IETF community 14:19:22 ... ISOC has communication channels 14:19:28 ... like mailing lists and newsletter 14:19:30 q+ 14:19:43 ... I'm willing to connect you with the Chief Internet Technology Officer 14:20:14 ... There are some points where ISOC IETF and Webizen intersect 14:20:29 Jeff: At the moment, I'm not thinking to reach out to the internet society 14:20:47 ... I've reached out to them over the years, sometimes successfully, other times less so 14:20:50 ack J 14:21:14 Julian: @@ quite happy to put out a questionnaire and do analysis; is that still wanted? 14:21:30 jeff: is that the org we spoke to a few weeks ago? 14:21:31 +BrianKardell 14:21:34 Julian: Yes 14:21:50 Jeff: I don't recall they provided input; they're happy to review it but they didn't do anything 14:21:50 Jeff: there is a new CEO and new CTO @ Internet Society, and I think there is opportunity to strenghten contacts 14:21:55 ... are they waiting for me? 14:22:04 ... it was a good suggestion, and we did speak to them 14:22:21 Julian: I'll go back to Ricomm? and I'll get back to you 14:22:29 Jeff: I appreciate this 14:22:31 ack ar 14:22:34 ack ah 14:22:43 q+ 14:22:46 q- 14:23:10 Armin: I'm missing bit on the pricing model, question 2 particularly is missing "how much are you willing to pay for" e.g. e-mail address etc. 14:23:22 ... What you get for what it costs is missing 14:23:34 Jeff: There are a couple ways for doing it 14:23:40 ... I'm open to different input 14:23:49 ... on the last call, we said you have to start somewhere 14:23:56 the influence of ISOC may vary by country or locale ... my impression, in the USA, Seattle area, is there is little or no awareness or participation in ISOC 14:23:59 ... if you ask people what they want to pay, people will generally want to pay less 14:24:20 ... we came up with USD 100 to cover expenses, so in the survey we tell that what it costs, and would you join for that 14:24:27 Ask the money question at the end 14:24:27 ... is there a better different way to ask? 14:24:54 Armin: Of course, we could say that @@in each country. Another is to name benefits with costs and ask 14:25:06 ... what would you be willing to pay for which? 14:25:16 Jeff: what are you suggesting? different programs? 14:25:42 Armin: name services and values 14:25:50 ... e.g. USD 20 for an e-mail address 14:26:03 I would suggest to use a 'card sorting' mechanism 14:26:19 Jeff: Well, we do that. there's a prologue which describes the service, and a question that asks whether people would sign up 14:26:22 or maybe there needs to be an explicit question about cost? 14:26:24 This makes people put their favorite features on top 14:26:27 ... does the prologue need to be closer to question 2? 14:26:41 Armin: [something about would you join a freemium model] 14:26:53 Jeff: We would be losing money if this were free 14:27:03 That gives a qualitative indication as well as an overall preference 14:27:21 ... The free model would get a lot more support probably, but that's not consistent with what other people have said: we can't lose money on this. 14:27:24 ack j 14:27:47 Julian: In terms of survey content, Ricom? has said we need to test what we're going to offer, and not just t-shirts 14:28:04 ... what needs to be in this is the mission, what people want to see, what they are buying, their reward for signing up 14:28:33 ... if you're in agreement, what I can do is get back to Ricom? and see what feedback I get 14:28:50 Jeff: isn't that what question 7 do? 14:28:57 s/do?/does?/ 14:29:21 ... if there's a better way to say it, sure 14:29:23 ack b 14:29:54 Zakim, close this item 14:29:54 agendum 2 closed 14:29:55 I see 1 item remaining on the agenda: 14:29:55 3. Discussion of email thread about "representation" including how to represent this thread in the survey [from koalie] 14:29:58 Zakim, next item 14:29:58 agendum 3. "Discussion of email thread about "representation" including how to represent this thread in the survey" taken up [from koalie] 14:30:07 Jeff: the survey came out of the last meeting 14:30:15 ... since then, there was a lot of input about representation 14:30:15 Q1 should actually be the last question, I think 14:30:21 ... it's sensible to put questions related to that 14:30:39 ... but there were so many different points of view that I don't know the right way to ask 14:31:01 Brian: what I was proposing in e-mail is what developers want: participate as a first class citizen in the W3C 14:31:20 ... we have various open source orgs etc, but to put together an org is non-trivial 14:31:34 ... W3C has been helpful creating community groups 14:31:45 ... how to avoid legal loopholes to create an org? 14:32:07 ... if you can do that you'll get a hundred, a thousand developers 14:32:16 +1 14:32:25 q+ 14:32:34 ack je 14:32:40 q+ 14:32:46 ... provide a nice way for developers to be first-class citizen in the W3C 14:33:09 Brian: we can create a github org or something else 14:33:11 ack je 14:33:28 Jeff: At one level, and chaals said it, anybody can create an org 14:33:43 ... but for W3c to create such an org, that's one of the things we're not really good at 14:33:50 ... W3C itself is not an org 14:33:54 ... we're not a legal entity 14:34:10 [W3C is hosted by legal entities] 14:34:22 Brian: is that necessary to be a legal entity to participate in W3C? 14:34:30 Jeff: Yes and no. 14:34:42 ... we have ways for individuals to participate in W3C as individuals 14:34:53 ... we have hundreds of invited experts in our working group 14:35:01 Brian: They have no representation 14:35:15 ... they don't have a say in the advisory committee 14:36:06 Jeff: It would be a quite astonishing change in the structure of the W3C to have folks on the advisory committee who are individuals 14:36:10 ... I guess it could be done 14:36:28 ... one way to do it is you can have every webizen be a member of the AC but that wouldn't scale very well 14:36:32 Brian: I agree 14:36:36 zakim, who is making noise 14:36:36 I don't understand 'who is making noise', jeff 14:36:42 zakim, who is making noise? 14:36:47 [musical interlude] 14:36:53 jeff, listening for 10 seconds I heard sound from the following: Jeff (86%) 14:37:03 Jeff: another way to do it is to have the webizens electoral college 14:37:28 ... that was a proposal I had brought forward to the June Advisory committee meeting and that got substantial push-back 14:37:35 ... do you have any other mechanism in mind? 14:38:17 Brian: You create a github org, put your license, state what your operations are. I'm proposing little change, really. 14:38:24 +1 for electoral college 14:38:40 Jeff: here's a possible interpretation 14:39:17 ... if every webizen went to this so-called org, and it had a voice on the AC, it's the same proposal as the college, except it's weaker 14:39:46 lessend concerns 14:39:50 ... if we have a single AC rep, I'm curious, would that be acceptable to e.g. Mark who voiced concerned last June? 14:40:02 Jeff: So, that's a compromised position 14:40:17 Brian: You assume I'm talking about a webizen org, I'm talking of an org. 14:40:19 Should perhaps be possible for a community group to 'elevate' key persons without membership to AC status by means of a group donation? 14:40:38 Q+ 14:40:50 ... whatever it takes to join, whether that org is made of one or hundreds of developers 14:40:58 ack m 14:41:10 Michiell: My idea was that CGs are already a pretty open mechanism 14:41:20 ... I'd see a model where people pitch in together 14:41:37 ... that would allow more open input into the AC model 14:42:09 ... going back to 1994, I wanted to join W3C, I was just a student. I got frightened and joined 5 years later. 14:42:26 ... looking from the outside, it was an ivory tower I didn't have 50K$ to join 14:42:47 ... the CGs mechanism is attractive 14:42:56 ... it works to get people together 14:43:09 Jeff: Linkage between CGs and AC? 14:43:34 q+ 14:43:58 Michiell: Michiel de Jung is currently in a CG. if you could elevate a CG to get an AC rep of the CG, my guess is it would be far better to get individuals there and be represented 14:44:05 ... a tiered system 14:44:16 ... where people affiliated around a subject get to have a voice 14:44:24 Jeff: Each CG gets an AC rep? 14:44:42 Michiell: Not all. Get a payment slot available for a given CG to send a person to the AC 14:45:10 Jeff: Do we know of any CG that would be interested in doing that? 14:45:25 Michiell: I don't have a list of them, but my guess is that any interest is topic-based 14:45:50 Jeff: I'd be interested in understanding some practical use-cases 14:46:10 ... We have an open-annotation CG that's been active for quite some time 14:46:23 ... the Team said, gee, we're ready to launch a Working Group 14:46:40 ... from then on, hypothesis became a startup member for 2 years 14:47:05 ... your particular exmple of CGs funding involvement, I haven't seen any example of this 14:47:13 s/xmple/xample/ 14:47:31 Michiell: it's a mechanisms to elevate the group to a certain status that gives them a voice 14:47:47 ack ah 14:48:20 Armin: Another approach would be to link the cost: for every webizen, we get x representatives 14:48:32 Jeff: That was the electoral college proposal last June 14:48:45 ... a rep for every 200 webize 14:48:48 ... that got shot down 14:48:51 The startup fee would mean 20 webizens per vote 14:48:59 s/link the/link to the membership/ 14:49:05 s/bize/bizen/ 14:49:17 Jeff: 200 was in between full member and affiiate fee 14:49:18 q+ 14:50:10 ack b 14:50:24 Brian: What michiell proposed is close to what I'm talking about 14:50:50 ... people are free to establish a group, pretty much like a CG, perhaps with founding documents of how they operate, 14:51:04 ... we don't care how they get funding (paypal etc.) 14:51:10 ... we don't care how many members 14:51:49 ... all I care about is removing the legal hurdle 14:51:59 -Julian 14:52:02 ... 14:52:22 ... the join fees remains the same 14:52:35 Jeff: How is that different from my proposal in June, 14:52:58 ... which the AC shot down 14:53:00 Jeff: the difference is I guess that it is not a quorum but a group 14:53:16 Brian: What I saw in June was fairly complex 14:53:24 I believe the AC shot it down, for fear that companies would quit their regular memberships and buy back in as "webizens" 14:53:38 IOW ... for much less money 14:53:41 Comment: getting "webizens" to create a legal org raises some challenes, e.g. in what jurisdiction is it established? 14:53:52 Brian: you can't shot down someone who can pay the price to join as a member 14:54:00 s/can't shot/can't shoot/ 14:54:10 +1 AnnBassetti, I also got the feeling that this was the concern 14:54:24 q? 14:54:25 Comment: So a way to view Brians proposal is that W3C provides a framework for a kind of "virtual orgs". 14:54:26 q+ 14:55:11 ack m 14:55:32 Mark: 14:56:15 Mark: my concern would be to have a certain level of assurance of IP made by legal entities which can be made accountable in court 14:56:31 comment: we have the same situation for invited experts 14:56:34 ... we would not have the same situation if we had a legal entity, or even individuals signign IP policy individually 14:56:40 ... we don't have the same level or recourse 14:57:02 ... to the point I wanted to make, having heard the dialogue, what it is we want for these webizens? 14:57:12 q- 14:57:25 ... are we interested in getting their technical input? or governance input? 14:57:46 ... are the goals listed sufficiently descriptive? 14:58:05 ... it would be much more important to get input for spec content and not so much at the AC level or AB level 14:58:24 ... I looked at a different org, OASIS, which has both corporate and individual memberships 14:58:46 ... corporate has voting rights, a say in the running of the org 14:58:52 ... individuals don't 14:59:14 Jeff: At least for me, the things that aren't clear to you are clear to me, here's how the fine line is 14:59:27 ... The most important thing that comes out of W3C is specifications 14:59:32 ... they affect lots of people 14:59:53 ... we thinkg it's important to grow this set of people who develop specs, provide requirements, etc. 14:59:56 ... it's the general public 15:00:17 ... it's our vuew point that we lack view point from developers 15:00:20 ... by creating this community, we aspire to increase the level of participation and affiliation 15:00:25 s/vue/vie/ 15:00:47 comment: if people don't like the governance, they won't contribute the technical input 15:00:58 Jeff: in the W3C means of getting work done, there is a difference between getting requirements and getting the technical input to address those requirements 15:01:16 ... this is what the working groups do 15:01:52 ... we already have an effective mechanism to get this technical input from non-members: invited experts 15:02:13 q? 15:02:33 Mark: that's your position, I don't hear that from several other members of the group 15:02:52 ... you carefully distinguish AC charter review and other AC tasks 15:03:10 Jeff: One of the rights and privileges of AC reps is that they can name people from their orgs to be in working groups 15:03:48 ... we have an IPR lack of clarity if a webizen can be an invited expert in any group 15:04:14 Mark: why don't leave the AC out of @@@if this is the issue? 15:04:39 Jeff: That's what I was proposing initially with upper house and lower house 15:04:51 ack b 15:05:24 Brian: on the legal aspect, currently a lot happens in public mailing lists 15:05:31 I think I like the bicameral possibility of structure (upper / lower houses) 15:05:40 ... some even avoid W3C discussion and bring back stuff later to W3C 15:05:53 Unfortunately I need to drop 15:05:57 -MarkCrawford 15:06:19 Brian: how can we currently have individuals@@@[missed] 15:06:26 ... Where is the legal argument? 15:06:39 ... IEs are individuals but they don't represent anybody 15:06:52 Jeff: You're right that there aren't a lot of fine lines 15:07:02 ... each thing that we introduce we introduce with a lot of care 15:07:18 ... in case of IEs which is one of the things you mention, they make IPR commitments 15:07:25 ... in cases this is more restrictive than Members 15:07:41 ... furthermore, IEs are only invited if invited by the chair of the working group 15:08:21 ... with a new program such as the webizen program, we're in the same situation 15:08:34 ... we need to be careful when we figure out legal protection of the Web 15:09:02 Jeff: I'll take an action, based on this call, to propose further questions to the survey 15:09:10 ... but we don't have a clear consensus 15:09:33 ... we don't need to have consensus for the rest of the survey, but it's important to have an understanding of what each proposal is 15:09:41 ... and to consider what has been shot down before 15:09:46 ... I'll put my ideas on the list or wiki 15:10:22 ... and invite others to contribute to phrasing 15:10:38 I... I'd like to get the survey out by September 15:10:40 ... we need another meeting 15:10:51 ... I'll send around a doodle poll for the week of September 1 15:10:56 s/I.../.../ 15:11:05 q? 15:11:15 Jeff: Anything else? 15:11:29 Thanks, all. 15:11:38 thanks 15:11:39 -Ann 15:11:40 -BrianKardell 15:11:41 -Jeff 15:11:41 olleo has left #webizen 15:11:43 -GeorgRehm 15:11:43 -Veronica 15:11:44 -ahaller2 15:11:45 Zakim, list attendees 15:11:45 As of this point the attendees have been +49.302.389.5.aaaa, +61.4.331.2.aabb, koalie, GeorgRehm, ahaller2, BrianKardell, Jeff, +44.778.839.aacc, Veronica, michiell, Julian, 15:11:48 ... +1.703.670.aadd, MarkCrawford, OlleOlsson, Ann 15:11:50 -koalie 15:11:54 -michiell 15:12:21 RRSagent, make minutes 15:12:21 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/08/20-webizen-minutes.html koalie 15:16:55 disconnecting the lone participant, OlleOlsson, in Team_JEFF(WEBIZ)10:00AM 15:16:57 Team_JEFF(WEBIZ)10:00AM has ended 15:16:57 Attendees were +49.302.389.5.aaaa, +61.4.331.2.aabb, koalie, GeorgRehm, ahaller2, BrianKardell, Jeff, +44.778.839.aacc, Veronica, michiell, Julian, +1.703.670.aadd, MarkCrawford, 15:16:57 ... 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