W3C & Open Source

Dominique Hazael-Massieux — W3C

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W3C & Open Source

Dominique Hazaël-Massieux (W3C)
@dontcallmeDOM
dom@w3.org
11 March 2021
OFE series on Standardization & Open Source

W3C

Tim Berners-Lee, Web inventor, W3C Director

Web ⮔ Open Source

Clown fish in anemone, illustrating symbiosis
Copy of the release by CERN of the original WWW software into public domain in April 1993

W3C ⮔ Open Source

Shared history:

Standards ready for OSS implementations

Standards built as Open Source

W3C on Github

W3C has more than 800 repos in its github organization, with 16,000 people having contributed at least once and 250 new people contributing each month

Infrastructure in place to help monitor and manage our github presence:

W3C open source projects to support its standards

Lessons learned

Specs & Software

Specs builds agreement around words, OSS around code

Standards & OSS

Wardley evolution line showing how Open Source & Standardization operate on a spectrum of maturity

Standards incubation: W3C Community Groups

Summary of W3C Community Group process: share an idea, propose a group, publish a report, take it to the next elvel

Many commonalities

Open questions & challenges

Ongoing discussions on W3C & OSS relations: w3c/oss-relations on github

Thanks!

Get in touch: dom@w3.org / dontcallmeDOM

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