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<p>The Web exists because people wanted to connect to each others and share. They got involved. The first Web site was a <a href="http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/News/9201.html">kind of blog</a> written by Tim Berners-Lee. People were experimenting, implementing, writing manual and tutorials. Tim was announcing the new servers that you could count each month on your fingers. <strong>You too can be part of it</strong>.</p>
<h3>Just One Story Among Others</h3>
<p>I have always known the W3C as a place to create and share. My academic background is not computer engineering. In 1991, I discovered the Web by chance on the computers of Physics Department of Montreal University and created my first two Web pages locally, page A and page B with just two links going from one to the other and back. I was really excited. In 1995, I was working in a Web agency in the Web design team: a biologist, a salesman, an english teacher, a lawyer, a journalist, a computer science student. We had the specifications such as <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/">Wilbur</a>, HTML 3.2 codename, on our tables. <strong>Nobody was a specialist but everyone was helping each other</strong>. Some of us were translating in French the W3C specifications, others participating in forums, sharing quick tips.</p>
<h3>On Going Discussions</h3>
<p>Pointing fingers is sometimes necessary, but doesn't necessary achieve what we wanted. It often creates walls when we wanted to open fields. There are a lot of discussions about W3C, HTML and CSS these days, negative and positive comments. <a href="http://adactio.com/journal/1393/" title="Adactio: Journal—Year zero">Jeremy Keith</a> and Jeffrey Zeldman framed the discussions</p>
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<p>If designers and developers are more aware of the problems than of the fact that the W3C is working to solve them, it's because the W3C is not great at outreach.</p>
<p>[...]</p>
<p>You want instant gratification, buy an iPod. You want standards that work, help. Or at least stop shouting.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zeldman.com/2007/12/19/let-me-hear-your-standards-body-talk/">Let me hear your standards body talk, Jeffrey Zeldman</a></p>
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<p>In the comment <a href="http://blog.josh420.com">Josh Stodola</a> said <q>What can I do to help , Jeffrey?</q></p>
<h3>Get Involved!</h3>
<p>I have written a few posts on this topic already and I will continue. Two days ago, I gave a link to the source code of an <a href="http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/2007/mobile-test-harness/">open source testing harness platform in PHP</a></p>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2007/06/contribute-w3c-tutorials">How to to contribute to W3C work? Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2007/05/contribute-w3c-quick-tips">How to to contribute to W3C work? Quick Tips</a></li>
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<p>fantasai will publish on the <a href="http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS">CSS Working Group blog</a>, in the next few weeks, a series of articles on how you can help W3C on the CSS front. In the mean time, a short list of tips to define your actions.</p>
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<li>Pick up one thing you can do for W3C. You have a job, a life, etc. Do not do too much but select one item that you <strong>have time to finish</strong>.</li>
<li>Help with your own competences. If you are not a programmer, do not try to implement a specification. If you are a graphic designer, help with drawings.</li>
<li>Listen and share. It is a community, a team work, it means a lot of patience, accepting to not have everything you want, but collectively to move forward. </li>
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<p class="postinfo">Filed by <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/karl/">Karl Dubost</a> on December 20, 2007 10:47 PM in <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/web_spotting/opinions_editorial/">Opinions &amp; Editorial</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/web_spotting/tutorials/">Tutorials</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/w3cqa_news/w3c_life/">W3C Life</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/QA/archive/web_spotting/">Web Spotting</a><br />
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<span class="comment-meta-author"><strong>Josh Stodola </strong></span>
<span class="comment-meta-date"><a href="#c094329">#</a> 2007-12-21</span>
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<p>Thanks for stepping up over on Zeldmans page and giving people a place to start looking. I can already think of several useful quick tips that I could write that others would benefit from.</p>
<p>Just in time for a New Years resolution, too ;)</p>
<p>Best regards...</p>
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<span class="comment-meta-author"><strong>Mike Whitehurst </strong></span>
<span class="comment-meta-date"><a href="#c094989">#</a> 2007-12-24</span>
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<p>Ah something to read while im working christmas eve, happy holidays!</p>
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