Re: Operational agreements for CGs

On 10 Oct 2012, at 1:26 PM, Young, Milan wrote:

> I found Arthur’s feedback on CGs [1] useful.  In that statement he made 5 suggestions (labeled a-e) for content that SHOULD be included on a community’s home page.  I’d like to give my support to these suggestions, and further recommend that these become MUST requirements.

Hi Milan,

As mentioned in other threads, charters and operational agreements are considered good practice. I heard a suggestion for a charter template that groups can easily copy and modify. That's something we can easily do.

> Transparency is at the heart of voluntary good behavior.  With transparency, communities will be more willing to offer principled terms [2] to attract membership.  Without transparency, members will naively join in good faith (after all the W3C is a principled [2] organization), and later become victimized by “bait and switch” behavior (e.g. [3]).
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> Thanks
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> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-council/2012Sep/0020.html
> [2] http://open-stand.org/principles/
> [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-speech-api/2012Oct/0018.html
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Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 19:35:19 UTC