Re: EOWG charter and Library of Congress

Hi Shawn,

I would be happy to give Ray a call this afternoon. I don't know him personally but will let him know about the work we are doing. I'll see if he can review the charter and comment next week.

I'll let you know if he'd like to get more information from you all.

Laura



On: 01 June 2017 12:57, "Shawn Henry" <shawn@w3.org> wrote:
Hi Laura,

We are working on getting a new EOWG charter developed that W3C Advisory Committee (AC) Reps will be comfortable approving. We are hoping to get any comments next week, so that we can address them before the charter goes through the multi-step process to get to formal AC vote.

The draft charter is here:
        <https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/charter2017>
The e-mail below went to W3C AC Reps and Chairs last week. [1]

The Library of Congress AC Rep is Ray Denenberg rden@loc.gov

*Would you be comfortable talking to your AC Rep in the next couple days* and seeing if they have any comments on the draft charter? Would you like the Co-Chairs (Sharron, Brent) and/or  W3C staff contact (Shawn) help?

Comments can go to the list of their choice:
* public list: wai-eo-editors@w3.org
* member list: member-charters-review@w3.org
* chairs list that's W3C staff only archive: team-eowg-chairs@w3.org
* direct: shawn@w3.org

The Co-Chairs and I are happy to talk with them if they'd like.

Expressions of support are welcome on the AC list <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org> at any time. :-)

Thanks!
~ Shawn, Sharron, Brent


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Subject: Work in progress on Accessibility Education and Outreach WG  re-charter (Advance Notice)
Resent-Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 17:15:29 +0000
Resent-From: chairs@w3.org
Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 19:15:18 +0200
From: Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
CC: chairs@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
Chairs,

This is an advance notice that the Education and Outreach Working Group
(EOWG) and the Team have a draft new EOWG charter for your review.

EOWG has completed most deliverables from its previous charter, which
are linked from the Milestones table at
<https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/EOWG_Current_Projects#2015_Charter_Milestones_status>.
The new charter includes:

    * developing resources that support understanding, implementing, and
testing conformance to W3C accessibility standards,
    * updating existing EOWG resources to better meet users' needs in the
current environment.

Details are in the draft charter at:
   https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/charter2017

*Issues*

We particularly welcome your input on the request by some W3C Members
for EOWG to provide more support for implementing accessibility,
including reviewing and/or developing more Tutorials[1] or other
"explainers", and training material. EOWG is currently planning to
develop editorial guidelines, communications, and processes to better
support more people developing and revising Tutorials and other EOWG
resources. EOWG envisions that individuals and organizations that have
existing materials may be interested in bringing those through EOWG and
other relevant Working Groups to be published on the WAI website.

Another issue that we have been processing is the options of Working
Group, Interest Group, or Community Group. Partly based on AC feedback
in 2015, the Co-Chairs, Team, and EOWG participants carefully evaluated
options of the proposed work being done in the different types of
groups. The results of the analysis [2] are that a Working Group is
important for credibility of deliverables, participant support and
motivation to contribute, and leveraging the existing productive group.
Furthermore, the proposed work fits the W3C Process description of a
Working Group, and not an Interest Group. [3]

*Please provide input by 8 June*

We strongly encourage those with an interest in this charter to comment
on the proposed charter by 8 June, so that we can resolve any questions
and issues before the formal review period, and avoid later comment
processing when some AC reps are juggling work and vacation. We are
happy to receive comments via e-mail and to set up teleconferences to
discuss issues.

We welcome your general expressions of interest and support on
<w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>. Please send any substantive comments in response
to this email as appropriate to <member-charters-review@w3.org>, which
has a Member archive [4]. If you want to make your comments public,
please use <wai-eo-editors@w3.org> (archive [5]).

If you have any questions, need further information, or would like to
set up a meeting, please contact: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>, EOWG Staff Contact.

A formal Advisory Committee Review for this proposed charter is planned
for June-July 2017.

This announcement follows section 5.2.2 of the Process Document
   https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#WGCharterDevelopment

For Tim Berners-Lee, Director,
Wendy Seltzer, Strategy Lead;
Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications

[1] Tutorials: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/
[2] Group analysis info: https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/EO_2017_Chartering#WG.2C_IG.2C_other
[3] Process doc: https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#GAGeneral
[4] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-charters-review/
[5] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/wai-eo-editors/


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