A presentation at CSS Working Group Developer Meetup, Jan 2020 in in A Coruña, Spain by Rachel Andrew
Who designed this? Rachel Andrew, CSSWG Developer Meetup Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Who designed this? Rachel Andrew, CSSWG Developer Meetup Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
What is the W3C? Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 25 years old on 1st October 2019 Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
“…create freely available and open standards that ensure that the Web remains open, accessible, and interoperable for everyone around the globe” Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Members Organizations become Members of the W3C Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
The Advisory Committee (AC) Each member has one representative on the AC. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
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Members have a vote For example during the Advisory Board elections. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
The Advisory Board (AB) Elected by members, Advisory Board participants use their best judgment to find the best solutions for the Web, not just for any particular network, technology, vendor, or user. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Working Groups For example the CSS Working Group. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Accessibility Guidelines, Accessible Platform Architectures, Accessible Rich Internet Applications, Audio, Automotive, Browser Testing and Tools, CSS, Dataset Exchange, Decentralized Identifier, Devices and Sensors, Distributed Tracing, Education and Outreach, HTML, Immersive Web, Internationalization, JSONLD, Media, Pointer Events, Publishing, Second Screen, Service Workers, SVG, Timed Text, Verifiable Claims, Web Application Security, Web Applications, Web Authentication, Web Fonts, Web of Things, Web Payments, Web Performance, Web Platform, Web Real-Time Communications, WebAssembly Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Invited Experts Not part of a member organization. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Anyone can contribute to specifications You don’t need to be an Invited Expert or representative. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
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Everyone is allowed to contribute You don’t need permission, or to be qualified in some way. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Read and comment on specification issues https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
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Show use cases As with any software development, real use cases are valuable. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Contribute examples and diagrams to specifications Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
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WICG Discourse https://discourse.wicg.io/ Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
It will probably take longer than you think for changes to be made! Patience is required for web platform contributions. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Raise browser bugs Fix bugs, or request that features are implemented. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Learn to create a Reduced Test Case Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
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Test and offer feedback on features behind flags. This is the best time to make changes to a spec. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
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Web Platform Tests Help us test the web platform Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
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Many people who work on CSS started by writing tests. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Comment on spec issues, raise new issues, contribute examples, raise browser bugs, write tests. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Thank you! Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
In this talk I explain a little bit about how the W3C and CSS Working Group work, outlining how everyone can get involved in the process.
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
