Community Engagement Plan

A breakdown of the different audiences or constituencies, when we involve them, and what information we will share with them at different stages of roll-out.

Please insert a link to the working task force and their charter and next meetings here.

Who to Engage

• Sponsoring Orgs
• Other W3C member orgs
• Grass Roots
  • Influencers
    • Well-known Web folks
    • leaders within different communities
  • Individuals

How to Engage

Basic principle:

1. Give publicity to contributors
2. Promote updates made on the wiki

Actions to take:

• Teams and team leads?
• Give entry points :

- Identify top contributors - Identify mentors to help newcomers - Identify things to do (organize by topic, by needs and by type of contribution) - Identify talking places (IRC, forum, ML, etc.)

- Blog about what's happenning on a regular basis (see [Mozilla "State of the doc blog posts"](http://hacks.mozilla.org/category/mdn/as/title/)) - Tweet every major doc change with credit to the contributor (this could apply to any social network, not just Twitter) - Convince technical bloggers to link back to webplatform.org

- Organize [Doc Sprints](/WPD/Doc_Sprints) - Promote events organize by contributors

• Sneak Preview: Current stewards, invited opinion leaders, interested W3 members
  • Purpose: work out bugs in site; get core participants familiar
  • Invitation: we’d like you to look at it and get familiar; in exchange, we’d like your help in promoting it later
  • Don’t invite until we have something live to share
  • Need to develop list of people to invite
• Alpha rollout: Open to the public
  • Purpose: grow community, get more people contributing substantively.
  • Goals, Metrics, and Mechanisms