Re: Group status...

If you join as an individual, you are directly responsible for what you say. If you join as a rep of your company, your company controls the membership. There are also differences in the Intellectual Property Rights handling of what you may say or contribute to the group. Since this group does not produce any normative content, this does not really apply to us.


If your company isn’t a W3C member, the question does not even arrive anyway because you can’t register as a rep of your company under those conditions.


If we were a Working Group, it would be more difficult to join as an individual but much simpler to join as a Member company representative, if I understood the discussion correctly.






De : Gias Kay Lee
Envoyé : ‎mardi‎ ‎30‎ ‎avril‎ ‎2013 ‎08‎:‎52
À : Marcos Caceres
Cc : Andrea Giammarchi, Clint Hill, François REMY, Brian Kardell, public-nextweb@w3.org


Just making sure I haven't read the ToC wrongly... Could someone please explain in plain English the difference between joining this group as an individual, or as a rep of my company?







Kay


On Tuesday, April 30, 2013, Marcos Caceres wrote:




On Monday, April 29, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Andrea Giammarchi wrote:

> yep, I remember asking once what did "everybody can join" mean in the main W3 groups page :-)

AFAIK, "everyone can join" (™*… terms and conditions apply) means:

1. if you are not already a W3C member, you can join as an individual and not represent any company (or choose to represent a company, even if not a W3C member).

2. if you are a w3c member, you need to ask your AC rep (same as joining a WG).

> No idea how I managed this time to get in without too many troubles .... I feel lucky now (so yes, that is unfortunately a common problem)

Barrier of entry for people is lower for CGs than WG. At least people have the choice to represent themselves so long as they make the appropriate licensing commitments when required to do so (does not apply to this group - but see http://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/).