A presentation at Fronteers in in Amsterdam, Netherlands by Rachel Andrew
Who designed this? Rachel Andrew, Fronteers Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
What is the W3C? Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Happy Birthday 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 Fronteers is a Member Organization 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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Representing a volunteer organization like Fronteers This is an unusual thing. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Members have a vote For example during the Advisory Board elections. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
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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
Getting to grips with specifications Fronteers members contributing to specifications. 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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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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Firefox Nightly Please test subgrid and the DevTools for subgrid. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Web Platform Tests Help us test the web platform Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
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Perhaps we do a Fronteers workshop on testing CSS? Let me know if there would be interest! Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Talk to me about the work of the W3C I’m doing this on your behalf! Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Dank u wel! Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew
Rachel Andrew has been the Fronteers representative to the W3C for just over 9 months. In that time she has attended W3C meetings, and also spent time with Fronteers members, reading specifications together and taking that feedback to the CSS Working Group. In this talk Rachel will share some of this work, but also explain how the web platform is developed. Find out how everyone can get involved in creating web platform features, and the unique opportunities that being part of Fronteers, with their W3C membership, brings.
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