Fwd: Preparing to close some Community Groups; please review by 17 October

Dear all,

we regularly get these reviews, which is essential in view of the growing number of CG-s. Here are the CG-s in the list relevant (in my view) for the publishing activity. We may want to decide whether we'd ask to keep them alive for now or not. Note that if we decide to ask for keeping a particular CG alive, we should contact the CG (or the chairs) to see whether they really want to continue or not. I've attached my own, initial comments.

- CSS Print Community Group (https://www.w3.org/community/cssprint/)
 I remember having seen a reference lately to this work, but I do not remember when and where. Maybe one of you do. It would obviously important for publications, I presume many of the concepts could apply to EPUB rendering...

- Research Object for Scholarly Communication Community Group (https://www.w3.org/community/rosc/)
 I had great hopes for research objects, which could have radically change scholarly communication. This research was mostly driven by the U of Southampton but it seemed that, alas!, this works has wind down. BillK, this is very close to the NIST work you showed me a while ago, I wonder whether there is an interest to revive that CG with that work in mind…
 
- Scholarly HTML Community Group (https://www.w3.org/community/scholarlyhtml/)
 Tzviya, you are assigned as a chair… I would like to see this group succeed, but it may be just a dream. The impression is that the scholarly publishing world is not interested by any such change...

- Synchronized Multimedia for Publications Community Group (https://www.w3.org/community/sync-media-pub/)
 This is the one led by Marisa, and the idea was to come up with an alternative to SMIL; this was also briefly discussed in the EPUB WG. I would hate to see this effort go, but I believe Marisa has no time for this, and I am not sure there is a real market interest...

Cheers

Ivan

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> From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
> Subject: Preparing to close some Community Groups; please review by 17 October
> Date: October 10, 2023 at 19:57:35 GMT+2
> To: w3t Team <w3t@w3.org>, Shawn Lawton Henry <shawn@w3.org>, Marie-Claire Forgue <mcf@w3.org>, Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org>
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> Team,
> (Shawn, see question on WAI-engage)
> (Marie-Claire, see question Chapter-related groups)
> (François, see question on the Web Media API CG)
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> From time to time (such as in March [1]) we close inactive Community Groups. The tool we use to identify candidates recently found 90 inactive CGs:
>   https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/team-community-process/2023Oct/0003.html
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> If you see any groups in that list that you think should remain open, please let us know by 17 October (4pm ET).
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> SPECIFIC REQUESTS:
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> * Shawn, in March you wrote "Please leave [WAI-Engage] open until October 2023 at least." It seems still to be inactive. What do you advise?
> * Marie-Claire, in April you asked that we keep open the Nordic Chapter Smart City / Web of Things CG and Nordic Web of Data CG. Both appear to be inactive.  What do you advise?
> * François, the Web Media API CG appears to be inactive, but we're in the process of renewing the MoU with CTA that encompasses their work. What do you advise?
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> Thank you,
> 
> Ian
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> [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/sysreq/2023Mar/0080.html
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