Re: Google Docs, Archiving, and Accessibility

Indeed.

I haven't found neither text conversion nor MD conversion to work well when
dealing with minutes that include screenshots and internal links.
What I now did (for the WebPerfWG TPAC sessions) is download as a webpage
and upload that to GH:
https://w3c.github.io/web-performance/meetings/TPAC2020/WebPerfWGTPAC2020.html

Seems to work quite well.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 1:40 AM Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>