The Web aspires to be a universal platform, not only in terms of who can use it where and how, but also as a platform that anyone can help building
Developing the Web,
one page,
one style sheet,
one library,
one framework,
one site,
one standard,
one protocol,
one best practice,
one prototype,
one mistake,
one crazy idea,
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one contribution at a time. Here is to many more years of creativity #ForTheWeb #Web30
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It is not obvious to many how to get involved in the development and standardization of Web technologies.
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Part of it is knowing it is at all possible, part of it is that it's hard to find your way, part of it is that once you've found it, it can be hard to be or feel effective in bringing changes, and overall, it takes time, energy and in a number of cases, money.
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Fixing this requires lots of hard work - there has been progress, but lots more is undoubtedly needed.
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But part of it is also to understand how and why others came to be involved. @w3c has over the years had many different profiles involved for many different reasons: tech obviously, but also writers; musicians, linguists, philosophers, etc
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What are your stories of getting involved in #Web standards?
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.@dontcallmeDOM shared his story
Reflecting on my history with the Web as we celebrate #Web30 today; I think my first time on the Web was @Bpi_Pompidou around 1995 while researching a presentation on the Hipparcos satellite from @esascience sci.esa.int/hipparcos/
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so did @TzviyaSiegman nitter.vloup.ch/TzviyaSiegman/st…
what is yours?
Mar 12, 2019 · 5:10 PM UTC
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So.. I started a blog. I started trying to contrib on mailing lists. I saw a lot of good conversation coming from other developers. jQuery in particular, had folks like @wycats @paul_irish @addyosmani that I found myself agreeing with a lot. @slightlylate had interesting topics
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