Contributing to the Open Web Platform - Featuring two guest speakers from Adobe

Contributing to the Open Web Platform
Talk 1: Test the Web Forward with Rebecca Hauck

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/e/2/e/2/600_263998082.jpeg Test the Web Forward is a community-based grass roots movement with the goal of improving the quality of the Web by fostering knowledge to write high quality tests for W3C specifications. Through a series of events held worldwide, editors and experts on many highly popular W3C specs work with the community to educate and assist web developers who wish join in and contribute. Test the Web Forward is becoming the go-to place for resources on how to read specifications, understand the state of support among different browsers, and learns of ways to ensure that browsers implement features consistently. It is helping to shape the future of the web and you can help, too!
In this presentation, Rebecca Hauck will start with an overview on the current state of the Open Web and the very important and urgent need for interoperability tests. She’ll then talk about how crowdsourcing is an effective means to create these tests and will give a short tour of past Test the Web Forward events around the world. Finally, she’ll let you know how you can get involved and join this passionate community of Web enthusiasts.

About Rebecca Hauck

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Rebecca Hauck is a Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems with over 15 years experience in testing, methodologies, automation & infrastructure, and delivering high quality software. She is a WebKit contributor, with recent contributions to test infrastructure relating to the W3C. She is also an active test author on several CSS specifications and a member of the CSS Working Group. Rebecca has been key member of the Test the Web Forward community since its inception as an organizer and speaker at several events. You can follow her on Twitter at @rebeccahauck (https://twitter.com/RebeccaHauck).

Visit http://testthewebforward.org/ for more information about Test the Web Forward.

Talk 2: Webplatform.org with Julee Burdekin

WebPlatform.org is where we're documenting the web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, and related technologies. Major organizations have donated their web platform documentation. Our goal is to update it, improve it, provide examples, and best practices. WebPlatform.org is the one place where the standards folks, the implementors, the tools & services folks, and front line designers & developers are on the same page -- literally. As a team, we do weekly posts of what we're working on. Contributors join in to edit docs, provide sample code, and work on infrastructure projects. We also meet at special "Doc Sprints" where we work together or individually on special projects.
Julee Burdekin will give an overview of WebPlatform.org, show how easy it is to get involved, and provide some tips on moving from a specification description to a real-life best practice.

About Julee Burdekin

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/d/4/0/a/600_265494282.jpeg Julee Burdekin is a content strategist with the Adobe Web Platform team and is Adobe's steward representative on WebPlatform.org. Julee has a passion for web technologies and tools, and a desire to spread the word and help educate others on web standards. She recently acquired a chug puppy.