Open and Transparent W3C Community Group Proposed

The Open and Transparent W3C Community Group has been proposed:

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Although the World Wide Web (WWW) is an open and free information
system, participation in the member-based World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) typically requires paying a membership fee to participate in the
Consortium's standards setting groups. As such, the W3C is often
criticized as a closed organization by those that are not members of the
Consortium. This group aspires to help provide non Members with simple
mechanisms to provide feedback to the Consortium (the Consortium's
Members and the Consortium's Staff) on topics such as (but not limited
to): areas where new Web standards are needed (e.g. to help address some
interoperability pain point), Consortium priorities, the evolution of
the Web, aligning Consortium's activities with the Web, collaboration
with other organizations, etc.


Anyone - including non-Members - is welcome and encouraged to join this
group. Participants include technical contributors to Web standards, Web
standards Editors and group Chairs. The group also includes participants
from the Consortium's "Advisory Committee" and at least one member of
the Consortium's elected Advisory Board. Additionally, the group
welcomes members of the Consortium's staff.


If someone wants to communicate with this group but does not want to
formally join it, that's OK; just send an email to the group's mail
list: public-openw3c@w3.org (see   for the list archive and RSS feed
information). 

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You are invited to support the creation of this group:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed#openw3c

Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and
people can join to begin work. Once launched, the group will no longer
be listed as "proposed"; it will appear in the list of current groups:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/

In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account. To request one:
  http://www.w3.org/community/account/request

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires
the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on
site-comments@w3.org.

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team

Received on Sunday, 3 August 2014 23:09:37 UTC