Re: Web and Mobile Interest Group Closure

Ditto, Natasha !!

-roy

On 2015/11/28 1:38, SULLIVAN, BRYAN L wrote:
> Natasha,
> 
> Many thanks for your excellent leadership in this IG. It helped 
> significantly advance the dialog on the web for mobile devices, and we 
> are in a much better space for understanding the challenges and 
> opportunities as a result.
> 
> Kudos!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bryan Sullivan | AT&T
> 
> *From:*Natasha Rooney [mailto:nrooney@gsma.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 25, 2015 9:46 PM
> *To:* W3C Webmob Public <public-web-mobile@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Web and Mobile Interest Group Closure
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> The Web and Mobile Interest Group has reached the end of it’s 
> charter and as of today the group is closed. I wanted to say on behalf 
> of the chairs (myself and Marcos) and from Dom a huge thank-you to you 
> all for being members of the group and for the work you have done. In 
> this email we will go through some of the great work we did, the goals 
> of the group and some indication of where unfinished work could live if 
> W3C members wish to continue working on it.
> 
> The aim of the IG was to make the web on mobile a core element of any 
> web specification and to make sure core network elements were being 
> considered and optimised for the web on mobile. We certainly achieved 
> our first goal; W3C groups always consider mobile use cases when 
> developing specs; and sometimes even "mobile first", which is fantastic. 
> We had some outstanding work with a second key goal, and hopefully we 
> can find a home for this work within another group at W3C.
> 
> *Our documents:*
> 
> Standards for web applications on mobile [1]
> 
> Wake lock use cases [2]
> 
> Network information use cases [3]
> 
> Standalone apps on iOS [4]
> 
> Use cases for installable web apps [5]
> 
> Web API Gap [6]
> 
> Taxonomy of Mobile Application Platforms [7]
> 
> Gap Analysis between Web and Native on Mobile [8]
> 
> Permissions for Web APIs [9]
> 
> These documents as well as our wiki [10] and our Github repository [11] 
> will remain available online. The Standards for web applications on 
> mobile [1], Web API Gap [6], and possibly the Use cases for installable 
> web apps [5] documents will remain active.
> 
> Within the group we had two task forces. The Networking Task Force [12] 
> and the API Gap Task Force [13]. The work in the Networking Task force 
> will be discontinued until a need arises again to look into it (Natasha 
> will take this work to the Performance WG to see if they are interested 
> in continuing the work). New API Gap Task Force related items may be 
> best placed within the Web Platform IG, authors should enquire at this 
> group or the Web Incubator Community Group with any API Gap related items.
> 
> Again I want to say a huge thank-you to everyone who joined the group, 
> attended our calls, wrote documents and dedicated their time to the 
> cause. Many thanks also to the co-chairs Marcos Caceres and Joe Rabin, 
> and also to Dom for being our amazing W3C contact. I hope to continue 
> working with all of you again within the W3C. If you have any other 
> queries related to the group please do let me know.
> 
> Many thanks again!
> 
> Natasha
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Mobile/mobile-web-app-state/
> 
> [2] https://w3c-webmob.github.io/wake-lock-use-cases/
> 
> [3] http://w3c-webmob.github.io/netinfo-usecases/
> 
> [4] 
> https://github.com/w3c-webmob/installable-webapps/blob/gh-pages/ios_standalone/README.md
> 
> [5] http://w3c-webmob.github.io/installable-webapps/
> 
> [6] https://github.com/w3c-webmob/web-api-gap
> 
> [7] http://w3c-webmob.github.io/apps-taxonomy/taxonomy.html
> 
> [8] http://w3c-webmob.github.io/gap-analysis/
> 
> [9] https://github.com/dontcallmedom/web-permissions-req
> 
> [10] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Mobile
> 
> [11] https://github.com/w3c-webmob/
> 
> [12] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Mobile/Work#Networking_Task_Force
> 
> https://github.com/w3c-webmob/networking-tf-charter/blob/master/charter.md
> 
> [13] https://www.w3.org/wiki/Mobile/Work#API_Gap_Task_Force
> 
> https://github.com/w3c-webmob/api-gap-tf-charter/blob/master/charter.md
> 
> 
> 
> Natasha
> 
> 
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