Call for Participation: Automotive Working Group Charter Approved; Join Automotive WG

Dear Members of the Automotive Working Group,

I'm relaying the announcement to the group's primary public mailing 
list, to notify the group of its new charter approval and call for 
participation.

With kind regards,
Xueyuan Jia, Marketing & Communications

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Call for Participation: Automotive Working Group Charter 
Approved; Join Automotive WG
Date:  Wed, 12 May 2021 11:03:57 +0800
From:  xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org
CC:  chairs@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee representatives,
Chairs,

The Director is pleased to announce the recharter of the Automotive 
Working Group:
      https://www.w3.org/2021/05/autowg-charter.html

This group is chartered until 31 May 2023.

W3C is also pleased to appoint Ted Guild (Geotab) as new co-Chair of 
this Working Group [1], along with Peter Winzell (Volvo). Carine Bournez 
will join the Working Group as Team Contact (0.2 FTE).

The mission of the develop specifications for exposing information 
services for in-vehicle and cloud based uses. The Group will continue 
the development of an in-vehicle API for accessing vehicle signals 
information, adds an accompanying Best Practices document and will also 
deliver an ontology for the common vehicle data model as well as an API 
for Remote Procedure Calls to the vehicle.

Use the following form to join or re-join the group. The form will also 
instruct you how to nominate participants:
     https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/auto/join

Please consider diversity when proposing people to participate in W3C 
groups. Representation from a wider group of people, especially people 
from under-represented groups, is vital for creating web standards that 
meet the needs of the wider web community.

Current participants will need to re-join this group since it is now 
operating under the revised 2020 Patent Policy. This Call for 
Participation triggers the start of the 45 days grace period. See:
https://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq.html#recharter

W3C has been working with GENIVI to enhance our work with the automotive 
industry to the level of having a strong shared vision and partnership.

More information about the Automotive Working Group can be found on its 
homepage:
     https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/auto

[...]
To see all changes relative to the previous charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2Fauto%2Fcharter-2018.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2021%2F05%2Fautowg-charter.html

This announcement follows section 7.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
     https://www.w3.org/2020/Process-20200915/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 5.2.4 of the W3C Process 
Document:
      https://www.w3.org/2020/Process-20200915/#cfp

Thank you,

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philippe Le Hegaret, Project Management Lead, and
Carine Bournez, Automotive WG Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications