Re: New "Web Audio Developers Community Group" created

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Olivier Thereaux <
Olivier.Thereaux@bbc.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is a reminder that we have created a community group for web audio
> developers.
>
> https://www.w3.org/community/audio-dev/
>
>
> For more details, see quoted message, below.
>
> Over time, we plan to be a little stricter about keeping this list on
> topic (spec development, testing, issues and WG process) and re-route
> other conversations about building with the web audio API (and web midi
> API) to the community group. Questions such as "why is [feature] not
> working in [implementation] are a bit more of a grey area, but I expect
> most of them will belong more clearly in the CG.
>
> I hope this distinction and its enforcement, make sense to all. Do ping me
> individually if you think it is a mistake.
>

One thing I noticed is that I needed approval when joining from my W3C rep.
 Is this to be a closed group?


>
> Best,
> Olivier
>
> On 11/02/2013 11:36, "Olivier Thereaux" <Olivier.Thereaux@bbc.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> >Dear all,
> >
> >Some of you have missed the recent e-mail conversation[1] over the
> >week-end: I am happy to announce that a new community group for web audio
> >developers has been proposed, voted up, and created in the past couple of
> >days.
> >
> >[1]
> >
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2013JanMar/thread.html#ms
> >g
> >252
> >
> >
> >
> >The community group home page is at:
> >https://www.w3.org/community/audio-dev/
> >
> >And its mailing-list, which every community group members automatically
> >subscribe to, is public-audio-dev@w3.org (copied here).
> >
> >As the work of our working group progresses, we are likely to see an
> >increase in the numbers of developers using the web audio (and web midi)
> >specifications and early implementations, and it felt like a good time to
> >create a place for developers to share, learn, and feed back to this
> >working group.
> >
> >This new group will not greatly change the dynamics of the working group.
> >
> >I expect the WG will continue doing what it does, working on the specs,
> >discussing technical issues on the documents and their underlying
> >architecture. The CG, on the other hand, will be a good place for the "how
> >do I do [X]" or "Should [Y] work the way it does in the [Z]
> >implementation?". Having a forum for developers should also make it easier
> >to gather feedback and issues as they are discovered - which should help
> >the WG do its work better.
> >
> >The CG is not expected to work on any specification - although it might be
> >a good place to start discussing tips which will eventually result in a
> >tutorial document.
> >
> >Finally, let me note that WG members are NOT automatically added to the
> >community group. You will have to go and join over at
> >http://www.w3.org/community/audio-dev/ if you wish to be part of the CG.
> >
> >Best,
> >Olivier
>
>
>
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