Re: Open and Transparent W3C Community Group Proposed

On Aug 4, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com> wrote:

> This proposal already has more than five supporters so why has the group not been created?

Hi Art,

There are two reasons:

 1) I send you an email about the proposal last night; please respond to me privately on that one.
 2) I am in a meeting and haven't gotten to it yet.

Ian

> 
> On 8/3/14 7:09 PM, "ext Do Not Reply" <nobody@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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> 

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Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>      http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
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Received on Monday, 4 August 2014 13:27:41 UTC