Task force report-outs

• From: Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
• Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:20:28 -0400
• To: "public-swicg@w3.org" <public-swicg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <cd45bba4-63c6-4c5c-8ce6-03f97a6647ad@prodromou.name>

I want to start a conversation about task-force report-outs.

We do regular task-force report-outs at our CG meetings; our next 
meeting is on Friday.

Usually these report-outs are voluntary and kind of ad-hoc. I have to 
wonder, though, if a task force that hasn't made any progress during a 
calendar month is actively working on its goal. If there's nothing for a 
task force to report, have they actually made progress?

Would raising our expectations for task-force reports from voluntary to 
sort-of mandatory increase task force activity? Does having a monthly 
reporting requirement incentivize more activity?

We have about a dozen active task forces; synchronous report-outs during 
the CG meeting would probably take the whole meeting. Could we also have 
an async process for written progress reports -- maybe on the mailing 
list or on the Fediverse?

Evan

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