Updated - Template for Community Group Affiliated with a Working Group - potentially large number of specs and easy to add specs

This is a simplified version of what I posted here earlier.  This post 
is just to make it available for anyone who wanted to use it.
https://wcarr.github.io/cg-charter/AffiliatedCGCharter.html

Charter for Community Group affiliated with a W3C Working Group.  CG may 
have a large number of specifications and it must be easy to add or 
remove Specifications without rechartering.  Must be able to explore 
beyond Working Group's scope and deliverables to explore potential new 
work for the Working Group.

1. Designed for Community Group that can work outside the deliverables 
and scope or the Working Group it is affiliated with
2. Potentially large number of specs where the list of specs can be 
easily added to without rechartering
3. Community Group can work on a Working Group chartered deliverable 
only  when WG asks it to
4. Community Group can explore whatever else it wants to
5. If WG picks up work from the Community Group, the Community Group 
stops work on that spec unless the Working Group asks for it to continue 
(so not parallel work on a spec unless the WG is asking for that)
6. Charter points to documents in GitHub that list deliverables that are 
also deliverables in the WG (WG requests) and separately deliverables 
initiated by the Community Group.  Specifically, any Specifications with 
patent licensing obligations for contributions must be listed 
separately.  This type of Community Group could have a lot of specs and 
changes to the list, so information in one known place will help manage 
that (for licensing and contribution purposes - e.g. companies could 
decide to inform their representatives no to contribute to particular 
specs; the CLA is contribution based.).
7. Usual rules for fairness and decision making from the optional CG 
Charter template from the W3C CG site, except that the WG controls 
developing the Charter, not the CG itself.  The process rules are for 
the exceptional case where a CG cannot make decisions by less formal 
methods.  They are a fallback if things go wrong to ensure fairness.

Here are a couple of other Charter templates designed for other types of 
Community Groups.
1. Like the above, but not directly affiliated with any WG
https://wcarr.github.io/cg-charter/FlexibleCGCharter.html

2. For CG with known, stable deliverables where all specs are described 
in the Charter (this is the same as on the CG website, except in html 
format, not markdown)
https://wcarr.github.io/cg-charter/CGCharter.html

Received on Friday, 17 April 2015 17:44:18 UTC