Getting going, introductory emails - 1. Setting the stage

Friends

first of all, welcome to the group!  We now have more than 30 members, and I think the join-rate is slowing, so I think it's time for me to get the play rolling.  I am going to do that in this and following emails, and then ask you to introduce yourselves.

* Setting the stage *

This is a community group. It's not like a working group in a number of important respects.  There is no staff contact (and no Zakim bridge availability, either), for example.

However, we do have resources:
+ the group's home page:  http://www.w3.org/community/texttracks/
+ the Wiki linked from that; Silvia and I have started to put material there:  http://www.w3.org/community/texttracks/wiki/Main_Page
+ we have an action items and issues tracker (with nothing in it right now):  http://www.w3.org/community/texttracks/track/
+ and we have an IRC channel:  #texttracks
   (but without Zakim, we may not use it much, formally;  feel free to hang out there).
+ from the Wiki you'll find links to the bugs in the W3C bug database.

Most importantly, we have a mailing list.  Well, we have 4!  Let me tell you what they are so you can, for the most part, forget about all of them except this one:

public-texttracks@w3.org (this one)
  -- the vast majority of our conversation will take place here. Anyone may read or write to this list.
public-texttracks-contrib@w3.org 
  -- this is intended for Contributions from Participants to the Reports developed by the group. Only group participants may post to this list. Occasionally it may be appropriate to use this list, to make it clear when it's a formal Contribution by a Participant. (Contributions have associated rights and obligations).
internal-texttracks@w3.org
  -- this is the internal mailing list. Only group participants and Members may post to this list, and it's not publicly visible. When people are meeting, for example, we may use this for "I get into town at 6:30, and would welcome meeting for dinner; call my cell at 514-555-1212".
internal-texttracks-contrib@w3.org
  -- ignore this list. It's setup because we have the same structures as business groups, which may need confidential Contributions.  I don't think we will.

Silvia is also twittering (thanks, Silvia!).

(Finally, we can notice that we have a sister Timed Text community group, looking at TTML: http://www.w3.org/community/timed-text/)

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 24 October 2011 23:39:40 UTC