Call for Participation: Social Web Working Group Charter approved; Join the Social Web WG

Dear Members of the Social Web Working Group,

I'm relaying the following announcement that was sent to W3C Advisory 
Committee Representative earlier today, to notify the group of the new 
charter approval and call for participation.

With kind regards,
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Call for Participation: Social Web Working Group Charter 
approved; Join the Social Web WG
Date:  Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:47:01 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

W3C is pleased to announce the recharter of the Social Web Working Group.
https://www.w3.org/2026/01/social-web-wg-charter.html

The group is chartered through 31 January 2028.

The mission of the Social Web Working Group is to maintain the W3C 
Recommendations, as well as related Notes, in the area of the Social Web 
and may also adopt tentative deliverables. The Working Group will 
maintain the ActivityPub, WebSub, Activity Streams, Activity Vocabulary, 
MicroPub, Linked Data Notifications, and Webmention specifications, as 
well as related Notes.

Please use the following form to have your organization join the group. 
The form will also instruct you how to nominate participants:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/social/join/

Please consider diversity when proposing people to participate in W3C 
groups. Representation from a wider group of people, especially people 
from under-represented groups, is vital for creating web standards that 
meet the needs of the wider web community.

The group chair is Darius Kazemi (Invited Expert). The Staff Contact is 
Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> for a total of 0.1 FTE.

More information about the group can be found on the group home page:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/social/

[...]
To see all changes relative to the proposed charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2025%2F11%2Fproposed-socialwg-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2026%2F01%2Fsocial-web-wg-charter.html

This announcement follows section 5.7.2 of the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 4.5 of the W3C Process 
Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#cfp

Thank you,

For Philippe Le Hegaret, VP, Technical Strategy;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications