Involving students and academia in web platform implementation

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This session will focus on how to involve university students in implementation of the web platform (for example, browser engines), using a recent experience from the University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway as a starting point. At UiB, students have worked on real-world contributions to several ECMAScript proposals, including implementation work in JavaScript engines. Some of these projects were learning exercises, and some resulted in merged patches.

We want to explore how universities can establish similar collaborations with W3C and other relevant SDOs:

• How does one connect students with standards groups?
• How much involvement is needed from mentors, and how do we make that sustainable?
• What are the incentives for standards groups and universities to participate?
• What kind of contributions can we expect students to make (for example, spec development, tests, implementation), and how scalable this could be?
• What kind of course structure supports this kind of work?

Agenda

Chairs:
Mikhail Barash

Description:
This session will focus on how to involve university students in implementation of the web platform (for example, browser engines), using a recent experience from the University of Bergen (UiB) in Norway as a starting point. At UiB, students have worked on real-world contributions to several ECMAScript proposals, including implementation work in JavaScript engines. Some of these projects were learning exercises, and some resulted in merged patches.

We want to explore how universities can establish similar collaborations with W3C and other relevant SDOs:

• How does one connect students with standards groups?
• How much involvement is needed from mentors, and how do we make that sustainable?
• What are the incentives for standards groups and universities to participate?
• What kind of contributions can we expect students to make (for example, spec development, tests, implementation), and how scalable this could be?
• What kind of course structure supports this kind of work?

Goal(s):
identifying paths to engage university students in real-world web standards development work

Materials:

• Session proposal on GitHub

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