Welcome!

Hi everyone,

We've launched rather quickly but we already have 18 participants
(hooray!), so it's about time we get the mailing list started.

Daniel Marques and myself are currently set as chairs, so we feel like we
should welcome everyone who has joined so far (and will be joining in the
future).

As the (somewhat crammed) description of the group says, we are hoping to
build a space for people interested in bottom-up improvements of the web
platform. We want to work together to identify incremental changes that
help existing solutions while making the web better for everyone.

We know that the standardization process is not easy (neither to understand
nor to be successful in) and we have no easy answers. But we believe that a
joint effort from the community has a much better chance at identifying
both relevant and practical improvements to the platform.

You might ask: what's next? Essentially: it's up to you.

To start off, we suggest to focus on identifying common ground. Since
people on this group have very different backgrounds, we will start
planning a a virtual get-together (in another thread).

Of course, if you have a particular topic or technological challenge that
you want to discuss, then you can start a discussion right away or make a
note and bring it up on the get-together.

In case you are not aware, all Community Groups have a wiki (and
potentially a GitHub repo) to organize. It is also useful to think about
smaller task forces for specific topics, in particular to connect to other
groups (other Community groups like WCIG as well as WGs and IGs). In the
long run, there's an option to publish reports but let's not get ahead of
ourselves.

We're looking forward to working with everyone in this group!

Best regards,
Peter and Daniel.

PS: We have applied for a slot at TPAC 2016 in Lisbon. This would allow us
for a face-to-face meeting and exchanges with other groups.