Re: CoVid-19 Remote Meet, Work, Class Community Group Launched

I nominate Larry for chair.

Willing to co-chair if it matters.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 2:39 PM Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> wrote:

> The group has  (archived) email list, public-covid-19@w3.org now cc’d.
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> (It has another mailing lists, and W3C offers other services, including
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> a wordpress blog, use of W3C WebEx, a github repo, etc.
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> We need to choose a chair or co-chairs and draft a charter.
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> *Choosing a chair: https://www.w3.org/community/about/tool/#choose-chair
> <https://www.w3.org/community/about/tool/#choose-chair> *
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> I think W3C is sensitive about calling it a -wg instead of a -cg
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> I like saying go-remote instead of “meet, work, class” since I’ve been
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> a little research on remote exercise classes / physical therapy and
> telemedicine.
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> I’m on west coast time.
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> I’ll add my thoughts about the charter to
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> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/covid-19-go-remote-wg
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>     The initial focus of the group should be to produce reports that will
> be useful in a matter of weeks, not months
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>       Many organizations have produced "best practices" documents and
> others that might be helpful to share.
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> *From:* Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@xalgorithms.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 12, 2020 8:34 AM
> *To:* Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>; Jordan Arellano <jordanclik@gmail.com>;
> Chris Cox <ccox@comcast.net>; Dan Connolly <dckc@madmode.com>; Phillip
> Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>; Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>
> *Subject:* Re: CoVid-19 Remote Meet, Work, Class Community Group Launched
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> er...
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> Here also is a suggested default **co-drafting** location:
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> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/covid-19-go-remote-wg
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> Joseph Potvin
> Executive Director, Xalgorithms Foundation
> Mobile: 819-593-5983
> jpotvin@xalgorithms.org
> https://www.xalgorithms.org
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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:23 AM Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@xalgorithms.org>
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> Hello all, Good to see this started. Thanks for thinking to make this a
> W3C CG, Larry.
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> Here's a suggested default video conferencing location:
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> https://meet.jit.si/covid-19-go-remote-wg
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> Any side conversations can be instantaneously hosted with any change to
> the last part of the URL in a browser, e.g.
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> https://meet.jit.si/covid-19-go-remote-wg2
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> https://meet.jit.si/covid-19-go-online
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> https://meet.jit.si/random
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> There's no authentication -- any up-to-date browser gets someone 'in',
> though they'd have to now the URL.
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> I'm near Ottawa, in the EST time zone. Where are each of you? This is a
> visually-convenient time coordinator to plan discussions:
> http://www.thetimenow.com/meeting-planner.php
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> Here also is a suggested default video conferencing location:
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> https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/covid-19-go-remote-wg
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> Similarly, any side drafting can be instantaneously hosted with any change
> to the last part of the URL.
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> There's no authentication -- any up-to-date browser gets someone 'in'.
> Granular version control: every character change can be replayed.
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> Joseph Potvin
> Executive Director, Xalgorithms Foundation
> Mobile: 819-593-5983
> jpotvin@xalgorithms.org
> https://www.xalgorithms.org
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: <public-council@w3.org>
> Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:05 AM
> Subject: CoVid-19 Remote Meet, Work, Class Community Group Launched
> To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, Jordan Arellano <jordanclik@gmail.com>,
> Chris Cox <ccox@comcast.net>, Dan Connolly <dckc@madmode.com>, Phillip
> Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca>,
> Cc: <public-council@w3.org>
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> With your support, the CoVid-19 Remote Meet, Work, Class Community Group
> has been launched:
>   http://www.w3.org/community/covid-19/
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> This group was originally proposed on 2020-03-10
> by Larry Masinter. The following people supported its
> creation:
>       Larry Masinter
>       Jordan Arellano
>       Chris Cox
>       Dan Connolly
>       Phillip Hallam-Baker
>       Joseph Potvin
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> To join the group, please use:
>  http://www.w3.org/community/covid-19/join
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> Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
> a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.
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> A clearinghouse for experience and guidelines for people who are
> suddenly called to avoid travel or meetings, work-at-home or do classes
> online. Focus on current capabilities and future needs.
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> Thank you,
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> W3C Community Development Team
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Received on Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:22:05 UTC