Announcement: Community Group Charter

Hi WebAssembly Community,

Over the last two years, our Community Group has successfully collaborated
on developing a binary format for efficient execution on the Web, now
implemented in 4 engines
<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webassembly/2017Feb/0002.html>.
Along the way we've grown to 775 members!, picked a cool logo
<https://github.com/WebAssembly/web-assembly-logo>, and worked together to
figure out issues large and small.

However, there's still more to do. We have fun, thorny, and no doubt tricky
things to explore adding to WebAssembly, including threads, SIMD,
exceptions, and GC'ed objects.

It's time to get a little more formal about this process.

First, I'd like to announce that we've adopted a charter for our Community
Group:
https://webassembly.github.io/cg-charter/
Having a charter will make it clearer how our community is governed.
The charter we've selected is basically the standard W3C CG template,
filled in for WebAssembly.

Second, we've decided to reduce our set of 4 CG Chairs, down to a single
chair.
JF Bastien from Apple will take on the role of WebAssembly CG Chair.
Having a single chair was recommended to us by the W3C and will ensure the
community and the W3C have a single point of contact and escalation. Having
a single chair is primarily procedural, and does not change WebAssembly's
goal of working through consensus to design a standard available in all
browsers.

I'd like to thank our current chairs: Luke Wagner, Brahma Giri Abhijith
Chatra, Ben Titzer, and Filip Jerzy Pizlo, who will continue to be involved
with WebAssembly.

Third, we've submitted a draft Working Group charter to the W3C for review:
https://webassembly.github.io/wg-charter/webassembly-wg-charter.html
We also continue to move forward the process of drafting a more formal
specification for WebAssembly:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/tree/master/document
We'll keep you posted as our Working Group spins up.

Fourth, as we start to figure out issues like threads, SIMD, etc., we'd
like to conduct some in-person CG meetings.
We'll post meeting dates, details, and notes to this repo as they become
available:
https://github.com/WebAssembly/meetings

Thanks,
Brad Nelson

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*WebAssembly CG Chairs*Brahma Giri Abhijith Chatra
Filip Jerzy Pizlo
Ben Titzer
Luke Wagner