ChairTraining

Chair Training Curriculum

W3C Values

“W3C processes promote fairness, responsiveness, and progress: all facets of the W3C mission.” -- W3C Process, 1 Introduction

• Respect
• Overall goal of pushing the Web forward
• Neutral
• Fairness

Rules around groups: Process, IP, Anti-trust

• participation policy and expectations
• PWET training
• process basics: issue tracking and reopening
• decision processes
• editing policies - commit then review, review then commit

• Anti-trust
• Conflict of Interest
• Conflict of Interest as a Chair

• Document license
• Patent policy
• External contributions

• Horizontal reviews
• Coordination with other Groups
• Coordination with other standard bodies

Mechanics

• Minutes taking
• How to use archives
• Getting action items done
  • Managing volunteers
• Creating subgroup, task forces
• Editorial Teams
• Time
  • Time and attention management in meetings
  • Staying on schedule (milestones)
• Use of mailing list, teleconferences and face-to-face meetings
• How to work with the W3C Team Contact

• Press Releases
• How to work with Comm team
• How to manage press and outside communications while you’re working

• How to manage a Last Call, How to come up with CR exit criteria
• Structuring outside comments and reviews

• How to manage testing

Soft factors: values, and the art of chairing

"art of consensus"

• how to organize your first meeting
• how to do start a deliverable from scratch
• how to run effective meetings / build agendas
• how to frame an issue, how to frame a question
• how to step down
• roles in WG:

 * team contact,
 * Chair,
 * Co-Chair,
 * editor,
 * test suite leader,
 * domain lead,
 * Director
 * participant
 * reviewer

• [How to distinguish between being a chair, and being a participant]

• How to manage disruptive participants
• How to manage factions (case studies?)

• "leading by example"
• How to connect out-of-band/private discussion with the rest of the group
• When not to make a decision (due to lack of agreement)

• Managing scope, extensions, rechartering, V vs V.next (the mythical version 2 trick :)
• Using CR phase to start work on V.next
• Use Cases and Requirements

Tooling

• respec, anolis, etc.
• WG homepage
• IRC, Zakim, RRSAgent
• CVS/HG/GIT
• WBS
• Doodle
• /QA/
• Event calendar
• Tracker, bugzilla
• etherpad, google doc, etc.

Methods of training delivery

• TPAC annual session (see How to be a good chair session at TPAC 2012)
• Separate training day
• case based study session -- using experienced chairs to introduce a case that is then discussed in the group