Re: Planning to close Chemistry for the Web and Publishing Community Group due to inactivity unless we hear from you

Thank you for the updates. It would be great to keep the community apprised of your expectations (e.g., quick email to the list from time to time as you have done here).

We won’t close the group at this time.

Ian


> On Apr 18, 2026, at 10:39 PM, kerscher@montana.com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The group is still active. We do expect to publish guidance documents. We
> also anticipate more activity as soon as Math 4.0 goes to CR. That
> specification will support Chemistry and software that presents Chemistry to
> AT will be needed to be tested. Guidance on authoring will be needed and
> this group can help.
> 
> It will be a while before our web pages are updated.
> 
> Best
> George
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Team Community Process <team-community-process@w3.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2026 11:51 AM
> To: public-chem-web-pub@w3.org
> Subject: Planning to close Chemistry for the Web and Publishing Community
> Group due to inactivity unless we hear from you
> 
> Dear participants in the
> 
>   Chemistry for the Web and Publishing Community Group
>   https://www.w3.org/community/chem-web-pub/
> 
> In May 2025 we contacted you because your Community Group appeared to have
> become inactive (per [1]). Based on feedback in response to our message, we
> did not close the group, with the expectation that the group would soon
> become more active. Nearly one year later, your group appears to still be
> inactive, and we are more inclined to close it unless we hear compelling
> reasons not to.
> 
> If your group is in fact active, we ask that you respond to this email with
> answers to these two questions:
> 
> * Is your group publishing any Specifications?
> * What is the group's expectation about future standardization of
>  those Specifications at W3C or at some other standards body?
> 
> We also recommend the following:
> 
> * Let us know where the activity is going on so that we can update our
>  data and improve our tools.
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> 
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> 
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> [1] https://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#close-inactive
> 
> 
> 

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Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>

Received on Monday, 20 April 2026 09:50:28 UTC