Re: Time for an updated CCG website?

Hi Manu,

This is a wonderful effort. Thank you for leading the initiative. I like it quite a bit more than the old one!

Some quick feedback:


  1.
I would like a call-out that mentions who the current chairs are and a link to reach out to them.
  2.
 List of current incubation groups/meetings.
  3.
In the list of current specs, which group/meeting is it discussed in
  4.
List of final reports ( maybe another subheading under specs? So it would be Standards, Incubation, Final Reports)
  5.
Ideally, the list of specs/reports would just be a markdown/yaml table the chairs can just edit rather than HTML.
  6.
A policies section, the old website had these: [cid:8724618a-3fd0-4f89-9691-32b77bb9e624]  and I believe it would be helpful to maintain, I only found links to the Code of Ethics and the CLA

Regards,
Mahmoud

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From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
Sent: Monday, July 7, 2025 10:27 AM
To: Will Abramson <will@legreq.com>
Cc: W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Time for an updated CCG website?

On Sun, Jul 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM Will Abramson <will@legreq.com> wrote:
> The drop-down burger menu is wonky on mobile. See attached
On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM Brent Shambaugh
<brent.shambaugh@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is also an issue with the media view on my iPhone such that half of the pop up menu is not seen.

"Fixed" on mobile... but now iPad's are throwing a fit at the CSS. I
love how even Vibe Coding AIs can't get CSS on simple websites
right... it just kept throwing broken hack after broken hack at the
CSS until it "worked". :P

> Might be good to put the CCG call time in CET and Pacific as well.

Done.

> One thing we could explore is statically generated content from markdown files in a GitHub repo.

That's exactly how it works right now :)

Unfortunately, to get the styling we might want, we have to use HTML
in YAML files... but you can use Markdown too for vanilla pages (and
we can work on the CSS so that the default markdown has decent
rendering outcomes).

That said, our old site was in Markdown and had this capability.
People still didn't contribute -- we have data for that experiment and
it shows that even with the bare minimum, people still don't
contribute to the website... the new approach is to make it so AIs
generate the website with some basic guidance from people in the
community.

That seems to be working so far, where I'm just a go-between between
the community and the AI... and eventually, I'll move on to something
else and the site will languish until someone else becomes the
go-between between the AI and the community.

> Thinking this might be especially useful for things like having a page for each work item currently active.

The site already has a variation of this (but you might not have been
able to get to it just yet):

https://msporny.github.io/w3c-ccg-website/specifications/incubation/


-- manu

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