AB/2024 Priorities
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AB Priorities for 2023-2024
Incubation
- Leads: Chris
- Participants: Florian, Tantek
- Summary: Start defining "how" we bring new work to W3C and how we move work through incubation into the REC track.
- Goals:
- Define expectations & guidance for advancing work in incubation and when to move it out (both to a WG or to a closing report)
- Related issues and references:
- revise chartering Process and practices (possible input into Process)
- what CGs do and how they do it
- https://github.com/w3c/AB-memberonly/issues/81
- work in progress: https://github.com/w3c/AB-memberonly/blob/main/documents/Incubation.md
- previously wiki page to gather prior work, blog posts, questions: Incubation
Vision
- Leads: Tzviya, Chris
- Participants: Tantek, Vision TF
- Summary: Publish the Vision, bring it forward in W3.org/W3C documentation.
- Goals:
- Get the vision to a usable state
- [propose publication as Statement]?
- Ensure the way it is developed it is satisfactory to the community
- Related issues and references:
Interoperability and the Role of Independent Implementations
AKA "3Is" project.
- Leads: Tantek
- Participants: Chris, Florian, Wendy, QingAn
- Summary: Define the role of independent interoperable implementations - in incubation, transition to REC track and chartering, transition from CR to REC, etc.
- Goals:
- Document which user problems we are solving (being able to switch implementations, lowering switching friction)
- More precise definitions for interoperable, independent, and implementation
- Document risks, e.g. monoculture, from the entirety of a spec (e.g. WebSQL), to a common library every implemementation uses (Fonts?)
- Role of tests and test suites
- Related work, issues, and references:
Improving W3C community
- Leads: Wendy
- Participants: Tzviya, Igarashi, Chris
- Summary: moderating, member meetings, and working well together - including AC facilitation/moderation, work mode improvements, community building, potentially DEI
- Goals:
- explore AC moderation/facilitation efforts
- community-building within W3C
- improvements to the workmode to improve inclusion (automated transcription, etc.)
- improve AC inclusion (I should like to seperate this from the workmode issue Since less inclusion of AC is not just the work mode issue. I have a concern on less participation of AC led meetings and AC spring meeting.
- "welcome to the AC", "welcome to W3C": improved documentation and experience for new members (AC 101 documentation, glossary of terms, etc.)
- Related issues and references:
Exploring New Horizons
- Leads: Dingwei, ?
- Participants: Igarashi, Chris, Song
- Summary: Discuss how we identify "what" new technologies come to W3C, and how we identify important coming tech trends and help bring tech to incubation.
- Goals:
- help bring new tech to incubation
- identifying upcoming technology trends
- "what" trends should come to W3C, how do we identify them
- work with the Team to achieve this (incubation funnel) meetings and AC spring meeting.
- Related issues and references:
New Meeting Formats
- Leads:
- Participants:
- Summary: Form a task force to review current meeting formats and explore potential changes to how the W3C Community meets.
- Goals:
- Improve attendance and participation in W3C events
- Find ways to make in-person time more effective for participants
- Better consideration of cultural and geographic factors in meeting planning
- Explore topics like co-location with conferences/industry events, member meetings
- Related issues and references:
Ongoing Priorities
Process & governance documents
- Leads: Florian
- Participants: Elika, Chris, Process CG
- Summary: Update and maintain the Process and other governance-related documents
- Goals:
- Council Process follow ups
- Process simplification
- Director-free Patent Policy
- Director-free WHATWG-MoU
- Chartering (Depending on input from the Incubation priority project)
Board Liaison
- Leads: Elika, Tantek
- Participants: N/A
- Summary: Ensure the AB and Board have open and productive communications
- Goals:
- Facilitate healthy cooperation between the Board and the AB
- Support the Board
- Help triage topics into the right venue
- Relay requests / concerns from the Membership
Maintain and Improve the Code of Conduct
- Leads: Tzviya, Wendy
- Participants: PWE CG (including Chris)
- Summary: Maintain the Code of Conduct
- Goals:
- revamping the W3C Ombuds program and dispute resolution documentation
- continued revision of the CoC
Goals for Diversity and Inclusion
- Leads: Avneesh, Wendy
- Participants:
- Summary: high level project management so that AB+W3C have direction in next steps to take
- Goals:
- Identify short-, medium- and long-term goals for DEI (and what short/medium/long mean)
- Consolidate existing tracking of DEI, and identify what further tracking we should be doing and how to do it