CweUserLevel

There are prerequisites to using the CWE, but they are fairly basic (and almost common place in most parts of the world today.)    (6E)

• The prerequisites required of CWE users include:    (6F)
• ability to connect to and browse the Internet;    (6G)
• know how to write on an editor/word processor; and    (6H)
• know how to communicate through e-mail    (6I)

CWE User Levels 1 through 10    (5W)

• Level 1: Ability to make postings to the e-mail forum (mailing list). Ability to access a piece of information when a link is provided, on a web page or via e-mail. Be able to explore and browse the cwe contents under (a) community portal; (b) forum archives; (c) community wiki; and (d) file repository.    (5X)

• Level 2: Ability to retrieve cwe content through "search". Be able to map to web folders and move content into the file workspace (through drag-and-drop from your own machine to the WebDAV server).    (5Y)

• Level 3: Be able to contribute on the wiki; with abilities to (a) edit other's work; (b) write new work; (c) start new pages; and (d) format the page to look nicely.    (5Z)

• Level 4: Ability to refer people to specific content by providing links. Use of PurpleNumbers and PurpleSlurple.    (60)

• Level 5: Ability to properly name files. Understand simple version control.    (61)

• Level 6: Ability to serve/view VNC and setup conference calls. Ability to setup template pages and do real time note taking with the wiki.    (62)

• Level 7: Be able to start a new forum; new project or new CoP, and moderate it on the CWE.    (63)

• Level 8: (to be added)    (64)

• Level 9: (to be added)    (65)

• Level 10: (to be added)    (66)

How high a level do we need to be, to be effective on the CWE?    (6J)

• community members don't have to be all high level user for the group to be productive. A community with mostly "Level 1" users will be able to get huge value out of working in CWE.    (6K)
• That class of users, in the setting of a nominal CoP, would probably be the most influential anyway -- because it would probably represent the largest percentage of the membership; and, more importantly, your policy/decision makers may well be in the group too!    (6Q)
• That said, Of course, the higher level the users are, the more the community can gain by working in the CWE.    (6L)
• What would really help is, that each communityis able to have a good "CWE Administrator".    (6M)
• Recommendation: You would want to start with a "simple project" that the members can put through on the cwe, even if it is just an exercise.    (6N)
• some communities started out just using the mailing list (forum) feature of the cwe, and found that to be extremely helpful.    (6O)