{"id":5,"date":"2013-10-17T11:06:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/?p=5"},"modified":"2013-10-17T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T11:07:59","slug":"web-app-source-code-protection-cg-is-trending-in-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/2013\/10\/17\/web-app-source-code-protection-cg-is-trending-in-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Web App Source Code Protection CG is trending in Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my work in the W3C Communications Team, I monitor the social media and the press for W3C technology and stories. The Web App Source Code Protection Community Group has been much written about in the past few weeks. <\/p>\n<p>See for example this Topsy graph. It shows the <a href=\"http:\/\/topsy.com\/analytics?q1=Web%20App%20Source%20Code%20Protection%20Community%20Group&amp;via=Topsy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">number of tweets per day that mentioned &#8220;Web App Source Code Protection Community Group&#8221;<\/a>:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6\" class=\"aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_6\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.44.08-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.44.08--e1382003598921-300x192.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot of topsy analytics for Web App Source Code Protection Community Group\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.44.08--e1382003598921-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.44.08--e1382003598921-1024x658.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-11.44.08--e1382003598921.png 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_6\">Screen Shot of topsy analytics for &quot;Web App Source Code Protection Community Group&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>A more remarkable example is this <a href=\"http:\/\/topsy.com\/trackback?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2Fcommunity%2Fwebappscp%2F\">Topsy search for tweets that mentioned the URI of this group<\/a>&#8216;s homepage:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7\" class=\"aligncenter\" aria-describedby=\"figcaption_attachment_7\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-12.03.55-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-12.03.55--300x59.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot of topsy search result numbers for the URI of the Web App Source Code Protection Community Group\" width=\"300\" height=\"59\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-12.03.55--300x59.png 300w, https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/files\/2013\/10\/Screen-Shot-2013-10-17-at-12.03.55-.png 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_7\">Screen Shot of topsy search result numbers for the URI of the Web App Source Code Protection Community Group<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>The sentiments people share are that of worry and concerns, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of my work is to help run &mdash;and assess&mdash; the W3C Community Groups operations. <em>Community Groups are run by the community and hosted by W3C. They do not necessarily represent the views of the W3C Membership or staff, and this is a clarification that we can not emphasise enough<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>I gave a quick look at the number of blog posts of this Community Group, the traffic in its <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/public-webappscp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">mailing list archives<\/a> and its (unused) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wiki\/\">wiki<\/a> (both linked from the side menu), and the contrast with the trend in social media is striking. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed work may get traction, or not, this is entirely up to this community group with 39 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/participants\">participants<\/a>, many of whom, I suspect, are observers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my work in the W3C Communications Team, I monitor the social media and the press for W3C technology and stories. The Web App Source Code Protection Community Group has been much written about in the past few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/2013\/10\/17\/web-app-source-code-protection-cg-is-trending-in-social-media\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buzz","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/webappscp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}