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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Will's Blog (Posts about data)</title><link>https://bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/</link><description></description><atom:link href="https://bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/tag/data.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><language>en</language><copyright>Contents © 2026 &lt;a href="mailto:willkg@bluesock.org"&gt;Will Kahn-Greene&lt;/a&gt; CC BY-SA 3.0</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:54:03 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Nikola (getnikola.com)</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Data Org Working Groups: retrospective (2020)</title><link>https://bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/mozilla/do_working_groups.html</link><dc:creator>Will Kahn-Greene</dc:creator><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;section id="project"&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Project&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;dt&gt;time&lt;span class="colon"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;1 month&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;dt&gt;impact&lt;span class="colon"&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/dt&gt;
&lt;dd&gt;&lt;p&gt;established cross-organization groups as a tool for collaboration&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;section id="problem-statement"&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Problem statement&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Data Org architects, builds, and maintains a data ingestion system and the
ecosystem around it. The group covers a swath of engineering and data science
disciplines and problem domains. Many of us are generalists and have expertise
and interests in multiple areas. Many projects cut across disciplines, problem
domains, and organizational structures. Some projects, disciplines, and problem
domains benefit from the participation of other stakeholders who aren't in the
Data Org.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In order to succeed in tackling the projects of tomorrow, we need to formalize
the creation, maintenance, and disbanding of groups composed of interested
stakeholders focusing on specific missions. Further, we need a set of best
practices to help make these groups successful.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/mozilla/do_working_groups.html"&gt;Read more…&lt;/a&gt; (7 min remaining to read)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/section&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><category>data</category><category>mozilla</category><category>retrospective</category><category>story</category><guid>https://bluesock.org/~willkg/blog/mozilla/do_working_groups.html</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>