- From: <public-council@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:12:08 +0000
- To: "Arthur Barstow" <art.barstow@gmail.com>,"Robin Berjon" <robin@w3.org>,"Brian Kardell" <bkardell@gmail.com>,"Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>,"Steve Faulkner" <faulkner.steve@gmail.com>,"Charlie Carter" <charlie@webbism.com>,Cc: public-council@w3.org
With your support, the Open and Transparent W3C Community Group has been launched:
http://www.w3.org/community/openw3c/
To join:
http://www.w3.org/community/openw3c/join
This group was originally proposed on 2014-08-03
by Arthur Barstow. The following people supported its
creation:
Arthur Barstow
Robin Berjon
Brian Kardell
Doug Schepers
Steve Faulkner
Charlie Carter
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Although the World Wide Web (WWW) is an open and free information
system, participation in the member-based World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) typically requires paying a membership fee to participate in the
Consortium's standards setting groups. As such, the W3C is often
criticized as a closed organization by those that are not members of the
Consortium. This group aspires to help provide non Members with simple
mechanisms to provide feedback to the Consortium (the Consortium's
Members and the Consortium's Staff) on topics such as (but not limited
to): areas where new Web standards are needed (e.g. to help address some
interoperability pain point), Consortium priorities, the evolution of
the Web, aligning Consortium's activities with the Web, collaboration
with other organizations, etc.
Anyone - including non-Members - is welcome and encouraged to join this
group. Participants include technical contributors to Web standards, Web
standards Editors and group Chairs. The group also includes participants
from the Consortium's "Advisory Committee" and at least one member of
the Consortium's elected Advisory Board. Additionally, the group
welcomes members of the Consortium's staff.
If someone wants to communicate with this group but does not want to
formally join it, that's OK; just send an email to the group's mail
list: public-openw3c@w3.org (see for the list archive and RSS feed
information).
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Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team
Received on Monday, 4 August 2014 14:12:12 UTC