Proposal for good developer relationships on the social web

Last week, I spent some time talking with Emelia Smith about cooperation 
with other developer communities on the social web, outside of the 
ActivityPub and Indie Web ecosystems. We thought that making a proposal 
that the CG could pass as a resolution would be a good step forward.

I volunteered to write a compact, proposal-ready statement. Here's the 
first draft:

/PROPOSED: Our Community Group includes members that focus on the 
ActivityPub, Indie Web, ATProto, Nostr and DSNP ecosystems. We re-commit 
ourselves to working together in this group under the W3C Code of 
Conduct https://www.w3.org/policies/code-of-conduct/ and the General 
Communications Policies for W3C Community Groups 
https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/#general-policies . We 
further commit to hold ourselves to the same standard of conduct with 
social web developers//, regardless of the protocol they work 
with,// outside of the Community group context, in public or private, 
such as in online discussions or in-person meetings./

I think this grounds our expected behaviour in already well-established 
policies. It reemphasizes the level of behaviour we all committed to 
when we joined the group. And it extends our expected level of behaviour 
outside of the CG context (mailing list, meetings, GitHub, forums) to 
other contexts as well.

I can put this up on my private GitHub repo or add it to the SWICG 
repos, or just add it to the agenda for the November meeting (TPAC).

Evan

Received on Thursday, 9 October 2025 16:10:54 UTC