Introduction to tools for W3C Community Groups (OSLC Webcast series)
Channel: Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
Date: 2012-02-14

See the tools available to W3C Community Groups in this demonstration by Ian Jacobs.


Contents
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2:55 W3C Community Groups home page
4:00 What are Community Groups?
8:00 Creating an account and member affiliation
9:50 Logging in and viewing your account details
11:15 Proposing a new community group
13:50 Joining a group, including license agreements
21:30 Question about patent policy and the Contributor License Agreement
24:45 The Final Specification Agreement
27:45 Infrastructure and tools for Community Groups
28:45 Mailing lists
30:00 Wiki
30:20 IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and chatbots that tie IRC into other tools
36:15 Example of integration between Tracker (issue tracking), IRC, and mailing lists
38:40 Blog (WordPress) for each Community Group 
40:20 Selecting chairpersons for groups
42:15 Group reports (work in progress)
46:00 Responsibilities of chairpersons
47:25 Community Council (documenting how to run groups)




Resources
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About W3C Community Groups: http://www.w3.org/community/about/#cg
September 2011 slide show (mentioned by Ian) introducing Community Groups: http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/community-201109/#%281%29
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