Re: Minutes for yesterday's WG-CG call, and Agenda for next call

Just a reminder, the May 1 joint call is in approximately 12 hours. Hope to
see you all there.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2026, 8:28 AM Darius Kazemi <darius.kazemi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello WG and CG members!
>
> Here are the minutes from yesterday's meeting:
>
>
> https://github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-04-16-CG-WG-joint.md
>
> Some highlights and notes (and a little editorializing) for those reading
> this email:
>
>  - Evan Prodromou proposed a process
> <https://github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-04-16-CG-WG-joint.md#evans-notes-on-process>
> for incremental WG updates to the AS 2.0 Core, AS Vocab, and ActivityPub
> documents, particularly the v1.1-ish errata updates but also triaging
> things that belong in a future "next" style update.  Discussion thereof is
> in the "WG updates
> <https://github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/main/meetings/2026/2026-04-16-CG-WG-joint.md#wg-updates>"
> section of the minutes. In particular we discussed approval process for PRs
> and what current practices from other groups are. Seemed to me like many
> other spec groups don't do a kind of "voting by group PR approval" but
> rather an editor-driven process with specific "checkpoints" where diffs are
> discussed at group meetings and the meetings function as a place for
> raising objections.
> - Look forward to diffs of above documents being published for group
> review in the coming weeks, along with specific guidelines for what we'd
> like the groups to be reading for
>  - There are very interesting open questions in task forces. For example,
> the E2EE task force has a lot of movement happening. I know there's a lot
> of interest in what e2ee looks like in an ActivityPub ecosystem and I want
> to encourage people who care to show up to those meetings and/or
> participate asychronously via the TF Github repo
> <https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-e2ee>. I'm using e2ee as an example
> but you can find the repos for every Task Force on the SWICG repo. Here's a
> direct link to a search for all Task Force repos sorted by last updated:
> https://github.com/swicg/?q=taskforce+OR+task&type=all&language=&sort=
>
> Additionally, I'll be looking into reasonably privacy-preserving
> transcription solutions that work on Jitsi. The purpose here is to help us
> be more inclusive to people with difficulty following English or following
> audio more generally for whatever reason. There's a workflow Jitsi
> recommends
> <https://jitsi.support/developer/setup-jitsi-whispercpp-transcriptions/>
> that involves piping audio locally to a local Whisper LLM and then piping
> that to the Jitsi API. This would allow us to have automatic transcription
> and subtitles for meetings without sending audio to a big tech platform.
> The only parties processing data would be my local computer and the Jitsi
> public server that hosts the meetings, which are each entities that already
> have full access to meeting audio.
>
> The Github issue with the proposed agenda for the May 1 joint call is here:
>
> https://github.com/w3c/socialwg/issues/9
>
> Please comment on the issue if you'd like something added to the agenda.
>
> Thanks,
> Darius Kazemi
> Chair, W3C Social Web WG
>
>