- From: Henry Story <Henry.Story@Sun.COM>
- Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:09:45 +0200
- To: Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au>
- Cc: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, Mauro Nunez <mauro@w3.org>, "public-social-web-talk@w3.org" <public-social-web-talk@w3.org>
On 7 Apr 2009, at 08:03, Renato Iannella wrote: > > On 7 Apr 2009, at 10:54, Harry Halpin wrote: > >> The solution is simple: Everyone becomes an "Invited Expert" and >> agrees to the XG Charter policy. >> >> However, this would require everyone who participates in the public >> list-serv or who speaks at the telecon to sign up to be an Invited >> Expert first, and would require explicit banning of everyone who >> does not sign up as an Invited Expert from the list-serv. That sort >> of list-serv and telecon does not seem very public or open to me. > > > No, that is not what I said Harry. Nobody is banned from anything ;-) > > It's very simple....instead of the public sending an email to "public-xg-socialweb-request@w3.org > " and *bypassing* the Charter Policy, they simply fill in a form > (name, email, company), click the "agree" check box" and they auto- > join both lists. That sounds reasonable. +1 > The advantage of this is that everyone is "equal" - there will be > no questions like "are you an invited expert?" or "just a public > participant?" when discussing contributions towards deliverables. > > BTW, the HTML WG has 255 Invited Experts and followed the same > process. > > Currently, the public needs to fill in this form to get a W3C account: > <http://www.w3.org/Help/Account/Request/Public> > > Then fill in this form to join the XG: > <http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/ieapp/> (Note: W3C account need to > access this URL) > > Perhaps W3C can streamline that into one simpler form? > > Cheers... Renato Iannella > NICTA > >
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