Invitation to a new Iteration of CredWeb

Dear CredWeb member,

Below you'll find a note from some of the top honchos at the W3C. They
recently decided that the current state of the internet... well... it
sucks. And they want to make it better in the ways that they can as the
organization where the internet was pretty much invented.

But rather than create a new group, they realized that there's a group
that's been trying to make the internet less sucky for a while now, the
group you belong to, the CredWeb Community Group. They approached Sandro
and me recently and asked if they could basically hijack our agenda,
turbocharge who is getting invited, and increase the possibility that we
might be able to produce a new standard designed to make things suck less
online. Sandro and I were happy to agree.

So if you've been attending over the last couple of years, I'd encourage
you to join the next meeting on March 12. Details below.

If you've been "lurking" and just keeping an eye on what we're doing from
afar, I'd encourage you to attend at least this first meeting. Two
different in-person W3C meetings recently saw a huge interest in this
topic. The organizers of this new series think the time is right to take
some bold steps. If you want a hand in shaping what those steps are, this
is the time to re-engage.

Hope to see you on March 12!



W3C is working on a deconstructed mini-workshop series to review proposals
to combat misinformation on the web. Based on discussions at TPAC 2024
(Originator Profile [1] and Content Authenticity [2]) and in the W3C
Strategy Team [3], there is clear interest in investigating how several
proposals in this space can contribute and what standardization support
they might need.


The Credible Web Community Group [4] will host this deconstructed
mini-workshop series to discuss a project framework for assessing tooling
in the authentic web ecosystem.


We will hold a virtual meeting on 12 March 2025, 10:00-11:00 EDT /
14:00-15:00 UTC, to review the framework and discuss how to move proposals
to interoperable standards to combat misinformation on the web. More
information can be found at:
https://www.w3.org/events/workshops/2025/authentic-web-workshop/


Attendance is free for all participants and is open to the public, whether
or not W3C members.


If you are interested in this area, we encourage you to attend the 12 March
meeting to gain insights into the framework. Alternatively, you may review
the meeting minutes, which will be made available afterward.


To submit a proposal for presentation at a future meeting, please contact
Tzviya Siegman <tzviya@w3.org> <tzviya@w3.org> or Dominique Hazael-Massieux
<dom@w3.org> <dom@w3.org>.


Thanks,


Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications
On behalf of the Program Committee:
Sandro Hawke
Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Chris Needham
Tzviya Siegman
Scott Yates


[1] https://github.com/w3c/tpac2024-breakouts/issues/90
[2] https://github.com/w3c/tpac2024-breakouts/issues/70
[3] https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/483
[4] https://www.w3.org/community/credibility/



-Scott Yates
Founder
JournalList.net, caretaker of the trust.txt framework
202-742-6842
Chair of W3C Credibility Group <https://www.w3.org/community/credibility/>
Member IPTC <https://iptc.org/> and Rebuild Local News
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