Re: Google Docs, Archiving, and Accessibility

Thanks for the reminder!

The addon at https://github.com/evbacher/gd2md-html/wiki may be helpful in
converting Google Docs into Markdown suitable to upload to Github. If you
don't like addons, the File|Download|Plain Text export is good except that
you need to fix headings yourself.

Jeffrey

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:20 PM fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
wrote:

> This is just a reminder that Google Docs are not archival [1], and they
> are
> not easily accessible from China, and therefore are not an appropriate way
> to
> maintain or publish working group records.
>
> So while it might be OK to draft things in Google Docs or similar external
> services, it's not really OK to leave them there assuming they'll be there
> indefinitely.
>
> Please make sure a copy of agendas, minutes, proposals, and other working
> group materials are stored by W3C--either on the W3C website, in a mailing
> list archive [2], or in a W3C-backed GitHub repository--and linked
> appropriately so that they can be found as easily as the temporary draft.
>
> This makes sure that working group materials can be accessed by our whole
> community now and in the future. Thanks!!
>
> ~fantasai
>
> [1] https://9to5google.com/2020/11/11/google-docs-storage/
> [2] You can send attachments, such as exported PDF or HTML documents:
>      * to the publicly-archived mailing list www-archive@w3.org
>          https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/
>      * to the Member-only archived mailing list w3c-archive@w3.org
>          https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/
>      These attachments will be available from the list archives and
>      can be linked from minutes, github issues, etc.
>
>