Re: Sustainability Recommendations Working Group [via Sustainable Web Design Community Group]

Hey guys,

I’ve already put my name on the list (on the article comments) so count me in. I just thought I’d follow this comment up as I’m aware that the UK government (for all it’s sins) has a sustainability plan on the gov.uk website for all technology - including web development. I’ve not looked at it in-depth yet but I just thought I’d chip in on this as the UK was the first to make all their central government websites accessible by default. Here’s the link: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/make-your-technology-sustainable

Alexander Dawson
HiTechy
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From: Christophe CLOUZEAU <christophe@digitzu.com>
Sent: 21 April 2022 18:45
To: Mike Gifford <mike@openconcept.ca>
Cc: Tim Frick <tim@mightybytes.com>; public-sustyweb@w3.org <public-sustyweb@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Sustainability Recommendations Working Group [via Sustainable Web Design Community Group]

as far as i know, it's the first!
But there are similar initiatives for Europe (don’t know precisely).


Best,

Christophe





Le 21 avr. 2022 à 19:21, Mike Gifford <mike@openconcept.ca<mailto:mike@openconcept.ca>> a écrit :

That is very cool Christophe.

Do you know of any other governments doing anything like this?

Mike


Mike Gifford, Senior Strategist, CivicActions
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On April 21, 2022 at 1:17:45 PM, Christophe CLOUZEAU (christophe@digitzu.com<mailto:christophe@digitzu.com>) wrote:

Hi Tim, all,

I’ve been interested in this topic since 2010. And I work full-time on french sustainable practices and web ecodesign, for web professional, organization and government.

I contributed to the writing of the digital services ecodesign guide for the french government, named RGESN (“Référentiel général d’écoconception de services numériques”) : https://ecoresponsable.numerique.gouv.fr/publications/referentiel-general-ecoconception/

I also contribute to other best practice guides.

So, I’m interested in being a part of this!


Best,

Christophe CLOUZEAU
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Le 21 avr. 2022 à 17:00, Susanne Koenig <susanne.koenig@gmail.com<mailto:susanne.koenig@gmail.com>> a écrit :

I would also be interested in contributing.

Best,
Susanne König


On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 11:40 AM Nahuai Badiola <nahuai@nbadiola.com<mailto:nahuai@nbadiola.com>> wrote:
I'd also be interested on contributing.

Best,
Nahuai Badiola

El 20 abr 2022, a las 18:39, Tim Frick <tim@mightybytes.com<mailto:tim@mightybytes.com>> escribió:

Great to see so many interested parties! I look forward to collaborating with you all and finding common ground among new and existing practices. Thanks everyone.

Tim Frick
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 11:36 AM Frédéric Bordage <info@greenit.fr<mailto:info@greenit.fr>> wrote:
Hi Tim, all,

We are in too !

We are working on that subject in France since 2011 and will publish the 4th edition of our "web ecodesign best practices repository" named (french) "écoconception web : les 115 bonnes pratiques" which means literally "115 best practices to eco design the web".

See https://www.amazon.fr/Ecoconception-web-pratiques-empreinte-%C3%A9cologique/dp/2416006274/

Best,
Fred



Le mar. 19 avr. 2022 à 18:37, W3C Community Development Team <team-community-process@w3.org<mailto:team-community-process@w3.org>> a écrit :
A few members of this group recently met with W3C to discuss creating sustainable web design standards of some sort, similar to the WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). For many of us who have worked in web/digital sustainability for some time, this seems like a natural next step.



Primary Take-Aways



Here are the main take-aways we pulled from the W3C conversation:



Sustainability is already included as part of W3C TAG group. There is potential overlap with other groups as well, which might mean more possible collaborators.
Standards and recommendations are two different things (WCAG is the latter, we probably want to start there).
Community groups are great to get as many people involved in discussing a topic, shared ideas, etc. as possible (That's what this group is).
Interest groups bring together people who wish to evaluate potential Web technologies and policies. An Interest Group is a forum for the exchange of ideas.
Working groups typically produce deliverables (e.g., Recommendation Track technical reports, software, test suites, and reviews of the deliverables of other groups) as defined in their charter.
Working or interest groups have charters they must follow and a set of requirements. You can read charter requirements here.




W3C recommends creating a working group of about 15 people to begin the process of creating recommendations. The first thing we will do is complete a charter doc. This charter requirements doc template will help us get started.



To this end, if you're interested in being a part of this, please add your name in a comment below. Thanks very much!



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