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Working in W3C

Vincent Hardy (vhardy@adobe.com)
Adobe Systems
January 12th 2012

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I was asked...
how is it from inside the W3C?

people drive things (or not)

At the end of the day, there is a spec to write maintain.

So, who participates?

a lot of people :-)

Some companies have a wide presence, some focus on particular areas.

The usual suspects are active

Individual contributors and invited experts

Standards are like glaciers!!! How do we get things moving along?

Asking for feedback

Valuing criticism and consensus

Involving the right people

annecdotes

minority-report

scope, scope, scope

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