The mission of the Community Council is to promote Community and Business Groups and ensure that they function smoothly. The Council's activities include: documenting good community practices, reaching out to new communities, identifying opportunities for collaboration between groups, helping groups transition to the standards track if they so desire, and routine group maintenance. The Community Council will also discuss existing and new features and other ways to enhance the Community Group experience. Anyone may join the Community Council. In particular, W3C encourages Chairs of other Community and Business Groups to participate (e.g., in monthly meetings that will include W3C staff). This group will seek to make decisions when there is consensus and with due process.
Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time
Note: Community Groups are proposed and run by the community. Although W3C hosts these
conversations, the groups do not necessarily represent the views of the W3C Membership or staff.
Chairs, when logged in, may publish draft and final reports. Please see report requirements.
For the second year, W3C is embarking in the Headlights exercise, to identify major new strategic directions for W3C. Read more on the Headlights 2013 exercise in the post Jeff Jaffe wrote last month .
I am leading one of the task forces, which aim is to determine which Community and Business Groups should transition to Working Group. A few people from the Team already joined the task force, as well as a Member of the W3C Advisory Board.
This task force will be active between February and July 2013. It is open to everyone and we will operate in public. If you wish to volunteer, contact me.
Find out more about anticipated activities on the dedicated CG2WG Wiki.
Thanks to the people who could join today’s call; see minutes.
We talked about:
* some process issues (notably Chair selection, but also some about decision making).
* some copyright topics (cc-by groups, moving cla/fsa to cc-by, and alternative copyright licensing).
* distinguishing CG deliverables from WG deliverables. Here we talked about more status information up front (draft or not, non-standard status) and any “limits” to words in the title (none decided on this call but there are some I think we would not want like “Recommendation”). We also talked about using “Draft Community Group Report” and “Community Group Report” to refer to the class of documents produced by CGs.
Following discussion of CGs during TPAC 2012 earlier this month, I would like to convene a meeting of the council to review some of the topics covered and next steps.
Agenda:
Policy
Chair selection algorithm
Update on some copyright topics
Communications
Distinction between WG and CG products
Education
Templates for good practices (e.g., charter template)
Infrastructure
Upcoming redesign and seeking beta-testers
I am setting up a poll for when to organize the meeting; please express your preferences for the proposed dates/times. I’ve asked Coralie Mercier to run the meeting (since I expect to be active in discussion). I am looking for a scribe.
Repeating our Group’s description: “activities include: documenting good community practices, reaching out to new communities, identifying opportunities for collaboration between groups, helping groups transition to the standards track if they so desire, and routine group maintenance. The Community Council will also discuss existing and new features and other ways to enhance the Community Group experience.”
Here is a preliminary agenda:
We’re ~3 months into the program. How is it going?
Share a bit of the documentation progress
Update on reports publication
Any prospects for CGs that we should pursue?
I created a poll to identify when to hold our first Community Council teleconference. Please look on the right-hand side of our home page and vote (the poll ends on Sunday 4 December).
There are 11 of us, at the time I am writing this; we have participants from Oregon, Washington D.C., Illinois, Maine, UK, France and Ukraine . I hope the proposed time works for people. I propose to take the discussion around logistics to the internal-council mailing list.
Leave a reply with suggested agenda items, suggestions for the meeting, etc.
