Hi Kobi,
Local communities are essential to the work of W3C. It helps to get
appropriate feedback on issues that could have been missed.
Le 16 juin 2008 à 03:43, Kobi Haddad a écrit :
Briefly, I think that developers here in Israel can help and give an
insight on the development in a few ways.:
1. Because Hebrew, like Arab are languages which are written right
to left instead of left to right, there are issues which are not
totally resolved when working on websites in these languages
(<label> for example).
We have tight cooperation with arabic and hebrew speakers through
Internationalization (I18N) liaisons.
For all things related to I18N, I would recommend the following W3C
blog.
Internationalization Activity.
http://www.w3.org/International/
Richard Ishida is very active and has built a lot of materials around
Web technologies. For example, around bi-directionality of texts
Bidi Topic
http://www.w3.org/International/resource-index?topic=bidi
2. There is a growing web dev community in Israel. I execute web
development conventions in Israel, and I know of developers which
would like to contribute to the project.
There are not many translations of W3C Specifications in Hebrew
http://www.w3.org/2005/11/Translations/Lists/ListLang-he.html
for example compared to French
http://www.w3.org/2005/11/Translations/Lists/ListLang-fr.html
That's an area clearly where this is a need, except if the Hebrew
speaking community is fluent in English.
There is also a W3C Israel Office and I think that would be worth to
contact them and start to discuss about possible local actions. Maybe
at a point, you would like to set up a monthly informal seminar and
discuss if people of the W3C Israel office want to participate
http://www.w3c.org.il/
3. Israeli internet is starting to gather Standards, though the way
to accomplishing the mission is long. I think that by building a
delegation of the project here in Israel, the contribution and the
will to write HTML better will grow.
More than "building a delegation", it would be easier to look at the
specification and works on specific issues with regards to it. I can
think of translations so more Web developers from Israel can read, and
then give an opinion.
Implementing some parts of the specification. For example there is a
parsing algorithm which has ruby and python opensource implementation.
That would be to have other languages.
I think that the next step should be a website, which will be the
delegation of the project in Israel. From that website, we can call
developers to sign, and try to see where it takes us.
One way to gather your local communities is to use a Web site like
barcamp. It will give you a few tools, and kick start your community.
It takes time.
BarCamp
http://barcamp.org/
Depending on the area and the topics of interests, there are also
plenty of mailing lists at W3C. But sometimes it will be hardcore, it
really depends on the list and the community
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/
We have also a blog where we are happy to answer some of your
questions and engage with the community.
W3C Questions and Answers blog
http://www.w3.org/QA/
I hope this helps you to start where to look at.
I'll be happy to know about your progress and difficulties when
starting the community locally in Israel.
Best Regards.
--
Karl Dubost - W3C
http://www.w3.org/QA/
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