Community Group Program Enhancements

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Session description

After 12 years of Community Group operations and many discussions about their role in Specification incubation, the Staff are working on greater alignment of the Community Group program with the W3C mission. We are planning enhancements to address a small number of situations of concern for those CGs that publish Specifications. (As a reminder, CG Specifications are the subset of CG Reports that are subject to the CLA and FSA.) CG Specifications that gain traction outside of the guarantees provided by standardization processes risk weakening the W3C mission; through these CG program enhancements we seek to reduce that risk.

During this breakout, we will discuss the situations of concern that are motivating this work, share initial ideas to address them, and recruit early testers and adopters of these enhancements.

After TPAC we will continue this work in the Community Council.

Session goal

Raise awareness and generate interest in potential enhancements to the CG program.

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@dontcallmedom

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IRC channel (Optional)

#cg-revamp

Other sessions where we should avoid scheduling conflicts (Optional)

#7

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• 2024-09-25, 10:00 - 11:00

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