Re: SWICG Community Meeting on September 22nd

Thanks James!
I'd like to propose a slight amendment to the agenda (I'll also post it to
a separate mailing list & socialhub thread, so it doesn't get lost in this
one).
Instead of voting to charter a new WG in general, I'd like to focus on only
voting for a WG of a specific scope.
In other words - having a new WG is not a goal in and of itself. But
accomplishing a specific task (for example, merging the errata, fixes and
implementer best practices for the AP/AS2 specs), that'll be easier for the
community to reason about (and of course, we'll provide plenty of time to
hear from the larger community etc.)

Dmitri

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 7:13 PM James <jamesg@jamesg.blog> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The Social Web Community Group met on September 12th in a hybrid W3C TPAC
> session, and in subsequent sessions on September 13th concerning
> ActivityPub test suite development and data portability.
>
> We have scheduled a meeting for Friday, September 22nd to follow on from
> discussions during the meetings held at TPAC.
>
> The meeting will be at 9am ET / 2pm UK / 6am PT.
>
> The rough agenda for the meeting is as follows:
>
> - Introductions (optional) and community announcements
> - IP Protection Note Reminder: (a) Anyone can participate in these calls.
> However, all substantive contributors to any CG Work Items must be members
> of the CG with full IPR agreements signed, and (b); To contribute to Work
> Items: ensure you have a W3 account, and sign the W3C Community Contributor
> License Agreement (CLA).
> - Motion to recharter a W3C Social Web Working Group (WG).
> - If a WG is agreed to be rechartered, a discussion on the scope of said
> group.
> - Motion to start a data portability task force that would focus on social
> web data portability (particularly with regard to ActivityPub).
> - Discussion on scope of said task force.
> - Any other business.
>
> All interested Community Group members are encouraged to attend the
> meeting, especially if you want to record your position on a WG and data
> portability task force. During the call, minutes will be taken by the
> appointed scribe and distributed after the meeting, as usual.
>
> If you have any other business to propose, please contact the Chairs.
>
> If you would like to review the meeting notes from TPAC, you can do so
> from the following links:
>
> - SWICG group meeting: https://www.w3.org/2023/09/12-social-minutes.html
> - Data portability meeting:
> https://www.w3.org/2023/09/13-social-minutes.html
> - Test suite meeting: [Cannot locate minutes; will follow up]
>
> Thank you,
> The Chairs