WebStandards China Making the Web Standard for Everyone Jon Phillips . [email_address] . http://rejon.org

Many Chinese Websites Broken

...except possibly in internet explorer 5 or something...

...which means they are still borked, right?

After joining WTO, China at 82% Piracy (2006) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_piracy

Why?

POSSIBLE SOLUTION

Make a Petition Get Signatures Direct Towards Companies + Public

TOTAL

FAIL

IN

CHINA

BEST SOLUTION

A Guanxi Compliant Solution (from the sides, not frontal)

The 4 E's are needed... Education Evangelism Events Espousers

STRATEGY

xHTML 1.0 + CSS 2 Compliance (or whatever is the current acceptable basic standards)

Creative Commons licenses for user generated content

Language compliance for both Chinese and English (controversial, but International)

Roadmap

Develop this website on our own

Then, shop it around for support by Mozilla, Google, and Creative Commons China, and any other projects.

Craft an announcement with these supporting groups

Launch it big with an event!

WE NEED HELP!

Sponsors Designer Web Developer Translators Many Evangelists!

INCENTIVE Be a Co-Founder! Increase Your (FLOSS) Guanxi Connect with “Open” Companies

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WebStandards China Making the Web Standard for Everyone Jon Phillips . [email_address] . http://rejon.org

WANT DEVELOPER + INTERNS Need to hire a sysadmin/developer Need to get 1-2 technology interns