NOTICE: Call Times Will Immediately Change To Tuesdays at 10:30am PDT

*This is a long email, but this next line is the one you should definitely
read:Starting immediately, the Immersive Web Community Group will have
calls every Tuesday at 10:30am PDT*

We'll continue to meet in WebEx. Call-in details will be in the weekly
agenda emails.

Thank you to everyone who voted in the Doodle poll! It was tricky to
choose, as scheduling for a group this large always is. The two time slots
in which all of the editors and chairs can attend are 10:00 and 10:30 am
PDT, so we're going to go with the most popular of those times, which is
10:30am PDT.

There will be two types of calls;

*Incubation calls*

*Every other Tuesday starting August 14th (next week)*
This is the call where we will field new topics, organize interested people
into sub-groups, and find consensus for contentious Issues and PRs.
Currently hot topics for this call include a proposal for advanced
controller input <https://github.com/immersive-web/proposals/issues/17>, AR
features like hit-testing <https://github.com/immersive-web/hit-test> and
anchors <https://github.com/immersive-web/anchors>, as well as a new
proposal to work on multitasking
<https://github.com/immersive-web/proposals/issues/15>.

*WebXR Device API calls*

*Alternating Tuesdays starting on August 21st *
This call will be focused entirely on the initial draft of the WebXR Device
API, with the goal of eventually moving it into a working group and through
the W3C recommendation process.

Ada Rose Cannon will manage the WebXR Device API call and I will manage the
incubation call.

Every week on the Friday before the call, Ada or I will comb through the
active Issues and PRs looking for topics that need to be addressed in
real-time. We'll send out emails with these agenda items and ask you to
send in additional items.


*A note about call attendance:*
As of today, an Immersive Web Working Group has not yet been formed so both
calls are open to every member of the Immersive Web Community Group. Once
the working group is formed, the WebXR device API call will switch over to
being open to members of the working group, which has more stringent
intellectual property protections and a bit more structure than our
relatively relaxed community group.

Finally, I apologize that there isn't a time slot when everyone is
available. With large groups there's never a perfect solution and we spent
quite a bit of time balancing all of the concerns that we heard from so
many of you. We will continue to share notes from meetings and to do most
of the work asynchronously in email lists or in GitHub Issues and PRs.
However, if you feel like your voice isn't being heard then reach out to
any of the chairs or editors and we will do everything we can to address
your issues.

I'll see you on Tuesday at 10:30am PDT,

- Trevor


-- 
Trevor F. Smith
Reality Research Engineer
Emerging Technologies @ Mozilla
trsmith@mozilla.com