SVG Community Group: Call for participation & charter feedback

Hello www-svg subscribers!

In the past month, members of the SVG working group have set up a new W3C
community group for SVG:
https://www.w3.org/community/svgcg/

If you're subscribed to this list, there's a good chance that you're
probably the sort of person the SVG community group is intended for. Here's
our current description of the group's goals:

“A group to gather and incubate new features and requirements for SVG —
> making it easier for software developers and content creators in the SVG
> community to engage with the SVG standardization process.
> “This group will complement the SVG working group, and covers the same
> scope of technologies. Draft proposals for new SVG features, developed in
> the community group, may transition to recommendation-track specifications
> in the working group.”


I've included more about the reasons behind the community group in this
blog post:
https://www.w3.org/community/svgcg/2019/03/08/draft-svg-community-group-charter-for-discussion/

That post is also a request for feedback on the draft charter, which can be
viewed here:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/svgcg-2019.html

You can give feedback on the charter even if you're not planning to
participate in the community group, by using the GitHub issue link in the
draft.

An important part of the charter discussion is separating the roles of the
community group and the working group.
The working group is also in the midst of a re-chartering process; the
proposed WG charter is at:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/svg-2019.html

The current plan defined by the two proposed charters (as I interpret them)
is:

   - The working group will continue to focus on stabilizing the
   stripped-down SVG 2 spec, and creating its test suite.
   - Beyond SVG 2, the working group will only focus on specifications for
   features that have strong support & implementation commitments from major
   user agents.
   - The community group, in contrast, will be encouraged to explore new
   ideas, and gather support for proposals, so that they can *get* those
   implementation commitments for new features.
   - The community group will also be a hub for organizing other work that
   supports SVG standardization and adoption, such as the development of
   polyfills and authoring tools for using new SVG features.

As we move forward with the community group, I won't be duplicating
messages to the main www-svg list. So if you want to stay in the loop,
please join the community group! The link is on the website:
https://www.w3.org/community/svgcg/

~Amelia Bellamy-Royds