WoT marketing and some thoughts on the Plugfest

[Citrullin]

I created a PR in wot-marketing, because I think it is the correct repo for this.

Some points on the Plugfest from an outside perspective: It is quite hard to get in touch with the W3C. I don't know if this is on purpose or just an side effect of the design of the W3C. So my question would be: Do you want to have more guests in the Plugfest or do you only want to invite certain people?

I also got the impression that the W3C is quite slow. All these processes make sense for defining a standard with different parties. But, if you want to interact with a more dynamic community, this will just be an obstacle. This is why I think reaching out to communities should be done outside of the W3C and their processes.

When I take a look into the libraries and tools, I get the impression that they are mainly maintained by students and PhD candidates. Only the nodeJS implementation looks like it is maintained by hand full of full time developer. From my perspective the contributing companies to the WoT need to invest in a small team in order to maintain a couple of core libraries. Additionally to this it is probably also a good idea to have dedicated people for interacting with other open source communities in order to reach more developer. I don't say this has to be forever, but for the start this is probably a good idea to get the ball rolling.

[relu91]

I made some comments on the PR: https://github.com/w3c/wot-marketing/pull/87#pullrequestreview-501037917.

[mmccool]

Comments from meeting:

• Hard to find the specification
• Industry does not know about it, "known problem"
• Need more community outreach, more informal ("outside" the W3C)
  • meetups, online communities, tags in social media, etc.
• Need dedicated team
  • but, where do resources come from?
• Have material, need to spend time organizing it, posting it, etc.
• Another workshop?

Follow up in marketing issue above.