RE: A call for DD WG Transparency

Hello Art,

The group met face-to-face a few days ago for the first time to discuss
several internal matters, many procedural, and included the issues and
mechanisms of operating in public. The group is now building a Wiki (the
infrastructure is in place) and a blog system to which approved minutes
will be published (in addition to the public mailing list). The blog
infrastructure is not yet complete. Accounts and other
security/anti-spam measures are being put in place, in preparation for
conducting technical discussions in public. The first set of minutes
will be reviewed and (hopefully) approved next Monday for publication,
by which time we hope that the publication mechanisms will be
operational.

The group is also considering the use of open source development
infrastructures. The details have yet to be worked out, though it is
likely that we will deliberate in public.

A new home page is in the pipeline, which will give direction to anyone
who wishes to contribute to the DD work. This, I hope, will be launched
next week. It will include pointers to the new wiki, the blog, the RSS
feed(s), the issues tracker and the mailing list and any other resources
we put in place.

It has taken a little longer than we anticipated to get everything in
place, including the proper registration of (returning) participants,
which happened over the holiday period in December/January.
Nevertheless, individual members have been working on our tasks and will
be contributing through our public mechanisms very soon.

I hope this goes some way to clarify the situation.

Regards,
---Rotan Hanrahan (chair).


-----Original Message-----
From: public-ddwg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ddwg-request@w3.org] On
Behalf Of Arthur Barstow
Sent: 01 February 2007 12:10
To: public-ddwg@w3.org
Subject: A call for DD WG Transparency


Section 10.1 of the DD WG's Charter says:

[[
<http://www.w3.org/2006/09/mwi-ddwg2-charter>

10.1 Email

A public, archived mailing list <public-ddwg@w3.org> is used to  
conduct technical discussions, publish approved minutes of group  
meetings, track issues relating to material previously made public,  
distribute public versions of documents, conduct public discussion on  
published documents, and for other public communications.

A member-only, archived mailing list <member-ddwg> is used to  
distribute member-only versions of documents, for member-only  
discussion on them, and for other member-only communications.
]]

This WG was announced on December 1 and as of this writing only 1 e- 
mail has been sent to the Public list whereas over 60 e-mails have  
been sent to the Member-only list. Yet a quick scan of the Member  
list shows the WG has had some meetings yet none of the minutes are  
Public.

Would someone please clarify why this WG is not operating in "the  
open" as clearly stated in the Charter? For example my interpretation  
of the above Charter fragment implies _all_ meeting minutes will be  
Public.

Regards,

Art Barstow
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Received on Thursday, 1 February 2007 12:29:11 UTC