Open and Transparent W3C Community Group created

The Open and Transparent W3C Community Group has been launched:
  http://www.w3.org/community/openw3c/

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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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To join:
  http://www.w3.org/community/openw3c/join

If you do not have one already, you will need a W3C account to join:
  http://www.w3.org/community/account/request

This is a community initiative. W3C's hosting of this group does not
imply endorsement of its activities.

The group must now choose a chair:
 http://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#how-do-we-choose-a-chair

For more information about getting started in the new group, see:
 http://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#how-do-we-get-started-in-a-new-group

and good practice for running a group:
 http://www.w3.org/community/about/good-practice-for-running-a-group/

We invite you to share news of this new group in social media
and other channels.

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 Monday, 4 August 2014 14:12:09 UTC