Re: Web standards, Openness and Transparency

Greetings. I'm Daniel Appelquist. I am the Advisory Committee representative for Telefónica and I am also the co-chair of the TAG. I'm a firm supporter of maximum transparency and openness. I think w3c, when compared to other industry consortia and standards development organizations is a very transparent and open origination. And I think there are areas where it must be more open and transparent, especially if it wishes to fulfil its mission as a key steward of the web platform, a role which it holds in trust not only of its members but of the wider community of developers and users. I think having an open and transparent discussion about this is a great step forward and I look forward to participating in it.

Dan



> On 5 Aug 2014, at 21:04, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> First, a big thanks to the folks that supported the creation of this group!
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> I think this group can provide a useful venue for Consortium members and participants to highlight and to provide education and outreach regarding the areas where the Consortium is open and transparent to non-members (aka the "Public"). Likewise, I think it can also be a place for non-members to provide feedback on ways the Consortium can improve in these areas, as well as to provide feedback on other topics included in the first entry in the group's home page [1].
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> Next, thanks to Doug for bootstrapping the group's wiki! His documents highlight areas where the Consortium's work is mostly open and transparent yet could be improved [2]. I expanded on this document by identifying areas where the Consortium already has good Public collaboration. Everyone should feel free to update this document as well as all of its sub-resources (and of course please feel free to also create new sub-resources).
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> Lastly, rather than a short introduction, if you'd like to learn a bit about me regarding my interest in open Web standards, please see [3] (my "Advisory Board nomination statement"). Everyone should feel free to send a short introduction to this list (and please do include your area(s) of interest vis-à-vis the group's scope).
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> -Thanks, AB
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> [1] <http://www.w3.org/community/openw3c/>
> [2] <https://www.w3.org/wiki/OpenAndTransparentW3C>
> [3] <http://www.w3.org/2014/05/01-ab-nominations.html#ab>
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