The extensible Web summit
(what was it and why should I care?)
Dan Appelquist (Telefónica, TAG co-chair)
What happened?
- The TAG ran a barcamp
- The event was run along-side of our f2f meeting in San Francisco
- (Context: the TAG has been doing developer outreach events along side our f2f meetings for a year)
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We focused on topics close to our work in the TAG
- Adobe hosted the event (Thanks!)
- We wanted to bring together web developers, web platform developers and standards people
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We invited a bunch of people we thought should come, and we opened it up to general registration as well
- We had about 100 people there
Event format
We started with lightning talks, curated by the TAG group
We had an agenda-planning session
The rest was purely un-conference
We asked people to take minutes using an etherpad
All session topics were recorded
on Lanyrd with links to minutes
We ended up with brief presentations on outcomes of sessions (and beer)
What some of topics were discussed?
The whole idea of web extensibility
Service Worker
Web Components
“Installable” Webapps
Packaging on the Web
Streams
HTML Imports
Web Intents
What's Beneath the Bedrock? (
slides)
Some notes
This event was non-normative
The idea was to inform the community but also to generate discussion
We wanted to get some people there who are not normally paying attention to standards
Lightning talks were used to set the scene
Low-cost, low-fuss, high-bandwidth
Feedback
Feedback
Learnings
If you call something a “summit” people pay attention
(for better or for worse)
For future similar events we need to ensure people commit to running the sessions they propose
Lightning talks needed to be arranged sooner than the day before
Put more work into gender balance & diversity
More working groups should be doing this kind of thing
Thanks!
Dan Appelquist
AC Rep, Telefónica
W3C TAG Co-Chair
@w3ctag
w3.org/tag
Extensible Web Summit:
(prepared with slid.es)
