Test the Web Forward

Event Kit

Better tests for a better web!

About

Test The Web Forward is a movement to make the Web better by involving the community in Web standards. It brings the community closer to the very specifications that they use to craft web experiences and helps them discover how they can shape the future of the Web. Test The Web Forward provides education, resources and events around web standards and the critical role of tests.

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Getting Started

If you have hosted any event in the past, you know that hosting a successful event takes a lot of time, effort and coordination. Planning in advance is critical as is follow up after the event, so be sure to allocate sufficient lead time and overall time.

This kit will help guide you as you come up with a plan but we also ask that you post to the W3C public-testtwf-planning mailing list and let everyone know that you are going to host an event. We can and want to help you throw a successful event!

Initial Planning

We recommend that you start THREE months prior to your target date. You may be able to be successful in a shorter amount of time with more support but it will be much more stressful.

Determine the details of your event

  1. What are the goals of your event? Educational? Number of tests contributed? Number of tests cases reviewed? Awareness of the movement? Something else?
  2. Is there a reasonable expectation that there will be experts available to help out at the event? For example, is there a W3C working group meeting in the same place/dates?
  3. Assuming there is a W3C event, is there a reasonable assumption that working group members or others will be available and willing to be experts for the Test the Web Forward Event you are hosting?
  4. Are there are any conflicting events or holidays? Be sure to look at local user group events, lanyard, meetup, etc. Also, do look at the W3C events calendar.
  5. Identifying and talking to local user groups is critical. They will likely be able to help spread the message of the movement and publicize the event. Additionally, they may want to be involved in some manner (sponsor, speaker, experts, venue, etc).
  6. Is there enough of an audience to support the event? Is there a large enough base of web developers? Are there local HTML, JS, CSS user groups?
  7. Is there a suitable venue in a central location or reasonable potential of finding one?
  8. Will your presentations and other content be in English or some other language? Are the speakers capable of presenting in that language?
  9. Do you need real time translation for the presentation? Ad hoc translation for the hacking part?
  10. Does any content and/or the website need to be localized?
  11. Do you have people you can rely on to help organize?
  12. Do you need monetary or in kind sponsorship?
  13. If you need sponsorship, do you have leads on potential sponsors and a reasonable expectation of getting the potential sponsors to commit?

Communication

Prior to Announcing the Event:

  1. Subscribe and post to the W3C public-testtwf-planning mailing list and let everyone know that you are going to host an event. List members can answer your questions and may be able to help you promote it.
  2. Subscribe to the W3C Test the Web Forward mailing list so that you can get and post updates on all events.
  3. Identify your target event dates, taking into consideration holidays, other events and availability of Experts & Speakers
  4. Determine the focus of your event. What specifications with will be the focus of your talks and test creation?
  5. Determine what talks are going to be given and the Speakers
  6. Get commitments from Speakers & Experts
  7. Secure the venue
  8. Ask on the public-testtwf-planning mailing list for an Event Page to be posted on testthewebforward.org. This should be accompanied by a pull request.
  9. Create a registration page on meetup.com or similar
  10. Line up sponsors (if needed)

Announcing a Test the Web Forward event

After you have selected a topic, figured out the logistics of your event and are ready to announce your event to the world, Please post to the public-testtwf-planning mailing list. Other organizers may be able to help promote your event.

Also, please announce your event to the W3C Test the Web Forward mailing list and please encourage attendees to subscribe to this list.

After the Event

After the event, we would appreciate it if there was a blog post summarizing the event. When you post to your blog, let us know so we can tweet it.

Also, a quick summary of the event should be sent to theW3C Test the Web Forward mailing list

In order to improve Test the Web forward, we need your help! Please help improve any aspect of Test the Web Forward by discussing them on public-testtwf-planning, by logging GitHub issues and by submitting pull requests.

Resources

W3C Mail lists

Event Management

Videos From Previous Events

Decks From Previous Events

Testing Resources

Art Work

Blogs