ŞWhy I want to work for the W3Cş

After four years in sunny Pasadena, I suddenly feel a longing for a genuine Cambridge winter... Well, maybe not. Perhaps I can enumerate a few, more tenable reasons:

I believe the W3C will have an impact. I have been following the Web, the Net, and their consequences for some years now, and I feel that the W3C will be an important voice not only in W3 technical debates, but in setting out the research frontiers in resource discovery, scripting, portability, and information (not merely document) exchange. As noted in a recent ACM Software Engineering Notes, httpd is the first successful, global-scale, distributed, object-oriented operating system... a viewpoint with all kinds of implications.
I believe I can contribute to the W3C in many possible roles, ranging from sysadmin to systems programmer to protocol designer. I see myself as a Şsoftware architect,ş skilled at designing and implementing flexible toolkits. At the same time, I have a pretty solid and diverse systems background (all the usual scripting languages, programming languages, PC/UNIX admin) to prepare me for maintaining code and server software.
My Şcore competenceş, as told to me by a good friend: My two greatest skills are absorbing vast quantities of information, and in finding elegant designs to complex problems. So, an ideal role might be something where I could:
- serve as a front end for all the questions, discussions, and requests.
- serve as a back end for the project work that responds to all these concerns.
In some sense, I'm just looking for a smart, well-focused place to give me some direction and focus. While I am willing to do anything because of my interest in W3C, I believe a job somewhere along the above axis would help W30 make the best use of my skills.
As a practical matter, I'm already up to speed on the WWW standards process, both as an observer (HTML3, Security, interactivity extensions) and administrator (WebStep).
And finally, yes, W3C's in Cambridge Đ I'm looking forward to perhaps moving on to academic computer science research after a few years of work experience, and there's nothing quite like MIT and the Cambridge technology community.

As a result, I'm very enthusiastic about what kind of relationship we might enter into. I'm willing to come out to Cambridge, if appropriate, and I'm willing to consider a development opportunity at W3C more strongly than some of the Şconventionalş venture offers I'm following.

Đ Rohit Khare, 3/8/95