My talk at All Things Open about how contributing to the open web has helped me build a career.

1. Contribution & Confidence
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2. Hello
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3. How would I get started
today?
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4. It's 1989
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7. Dancers do not need to use
computers
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9. The web gave me a
community
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11. “Knowing HTML” was a
marketable skill
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12. Learning something one
day
Teaching it to someone else the next
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13. The web gave me a new
career.
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14. The web was accessible, and
had a culture of sharing
knowledge.
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15. Font tags and nested tables
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20. Encouraging designers to
care about web standards
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22. Front-end developer
2005?
Browser bugs expert
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23. Thanks to the hard work of countless
WaSP members and supporters (like
you), Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the
web as an open, accessible, and
universal community is largely the
reality.
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http://www.webstandards.org/2013/03/01/our-work-here-is-done/
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24. Browser vendors are
implementing standard
things in a standard way
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25. Innovation happens
through the standards
process
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27. Show stopping browser
bugs when doing
straightforward things in
modern browsers are rare
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28. The industry has grown up
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29. Studies show that a todo list is
the most complex JavaScript app
you can create before a newer,
better framework is invented.
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http://www.allenpike.com/2015/javascript-framework-fatigue/
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30. We’re creating complexity
Hiding the simple languages of the web
behind tooling and process
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32. Knowing your core skills
brings opportunity to
contribute
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33. Giving back
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34. If you have been doing this
for a year, there is someone
6 months in who you are
ideally placed to help.
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35. You will learn by teaching
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36. Contribute to the
standards that make up the
web
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38. The CSS Working Group
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39. What do authors think?
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40. Making a difference to a
CSS Specification
can be as straightforward as writing
about how you want to use it
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41. Learn how the modern
standards process works
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43. To make an impact on a
specification you need to do
so while it is still
experimental
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44. Vendor prefixes are going
away
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45. The problem with feature
flags
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46. Developing behind flags
means authors need to be
proactive in testing
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47. It's a feature not a bug
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49. If authors do not offer
feedback
the final specification will reflect our
needs as understood by people who do
not build websites.
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50. Contributing to the open
web platform
is like giving future you a gift
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51. Contribute to CSS Specifications
4 Specifications are discussed on GitHub at https://
github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts
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53. Contribute to
interoperability
Raise bugs with browsers
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54. Learn to create a reduced
test case
This is a skill that will save time in
your own work and also in logging
issues with any project
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55. Keep learning
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56. Learning. Contributing
Excited about the future.
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57. Thank you!
Slides and links at
https://cssgrid.me/ato-keynote
@rachelandrew
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