Re: 48-hour Call for Consensus (CfC): Set up moderated public subscription to ARIA working list,

The entirety of the CSS WG discussions happens on www-style. It’s fully open with members and non-members. 

We’re trying to be inclusive and lower the barrier to entry, aren’t we? 

Just put the list behavior expectations on the join page, or in the join auto-response email.

> On Dec 5, 2015, at 4:56 AM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:
> 
> James Craig writes:
>> You could also make the list fully open to join and post. Lowest overhead.
>> 
>> Then then only duty is to remove members that engage in disrespectful or unproductive communication.
> But, then there's no record that they've been advised up front of what's
> expected of them.
> 
> And, what about the RAND that all members agree to when joining. Just
> blow it off? Not acceptable.
> 
> Janina
> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I would be OK with moderating nonmember posts.
>>> 
>>> The problem with moderating, of course, is that someone has to be tasked
>>> with that chore. And, that someone needs a backup person when they're on
>>> vacation, or sick, etc. And, we can't expect them to clear (or deny)
>>> posts by the minute --- so how often would we expect such to occur?
>>> Daily? Weekly?
>>> 
>>> If you review the minutes from yesterday's ARIA call, you'll find the
>>> discussion was concerned to make it as easy as possible to participate
>>> in ARIA development. However, "easy as possible" needs to meet certain
>>> commitments, and we need those commitments on record. These include the
>>> good behavior and agreement to W3C RAND.
>>> 
>>> PS: The HTML-A11Y Task Force is moderating nonmember posts. It's been a
>>> low incidence chore, fortunately.
>>> 
>>> Janina
>>> 
>>> James Craig writes:
>>>> Is there an option to allow public read, but moderated posting? If so, I'd prefer that solution. If not, +1 as-is.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Dec 3, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> The resolution of the teleconference was to adopt a policy that public
>>>>> subscription to the list will be allowed, but it will be carried out via
>>>>> a manual process, rather than automatic self-subscribe. A request to
>>>>> subscribe would be directed to the staff contact, who would reply with a
>>>>> short set of commitments asked of list subscribers, and upon receiving
>>>>> an affirmative reply, would subscribe the person.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> 
>>> Janina Sajka,    Phone:    +1.443.300.2200
>>>            sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net
>>>        Email:    janina@rednote.net
>>> 
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>>> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:    http://a11y.org
>>> 
>>> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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> 
> -- 
> 
> Janina Sajka,    Phone:    +1.443.300.2200
>            sip:janina@asterisk.rednote.net
>        Email:    janina@rednote.net
> 
> Linux Foundation Fellow
> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:    http://a11y.org
> 
> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> Chair,    Protocols & Formats    http://www.w3.org/wai/pf
>

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