The document discusses Rachel Andrew's career journey from dancer to front-end developer and her contributions to advancing web standards. She encourages attendees to contribute to specifications, raise browser bugs, and help others to strengthen the open web platform. Contributing back helps future-proof one's skills and gives back to the community.

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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