W3C Social CG
A space for implementors to collaborate and coordinate on any of the specifications published by the W3C Social Web WG and related technologies.
Meetings
Community Group meetings are held 1st Friday of the month 10-11 AM PST.
- Video Conference Room
- Chat Room
[channel #social]
(primer, cheat sheet, bot) - Minutes
Issue Triage meetings are held every Friday 9-10 AM PST.
Questions
Where to host canonical issues?
What say does the community group over a future working group rechartering?
What does the extension process look like?
Community Group Charter
A charter for the Community Group is currently being formed. Consensus will be sought atOfficial Repository Issues
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Add "workflow" section to Scope section of WG charters
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depends on 80 81 82! remove "Maintenance" from WG names
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All Social Web Working Group recommendations in scope, with WG prioritising its own workstreams
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rename indieweb-maintenance-wg-charter.html to indieweb-wg-charter
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rename ap-maintenance-wg-charter.html to ap-wg-charter.html
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rename social-web-maintenance-wg-charter.html to social-web-wg
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Minor wordsmithing: Clarify same-org CG election rules
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less simple Scope language that gates active maintenance on editor-champions (in big-tent WG charter)
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"Chair Representation" - looser definition of affiliation for maximum transparency in elections
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simpler Scope language that points to prior deliverables
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Formalizing/standardizing IndieAuth and other former-WG Notes out of scope?
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Add language to "wide-tent" charter to avoid conflicts
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[CGCharter] Task Forces: define terms used in paragraph (convener, champion)
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Amend draft Charter to contain Start Date
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Expand WG Charter to allow additional documents and features per staging process
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Stage 1 should include creating a task force in staging proposal
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3-stage Standardization Process Proposal in staging proposal
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CG: simplify name
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File
github.com/swicg/potential-charters/issues
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Task Forces
- WebFinger
- HTML Discovery
- Forums / Threaded Discussions
- End-to-End Encryption
- Data Portability
- Trust & Safety
- Test Suite
- Website
History
The Social Web Incubator Community Group (also known as SocialCG, or SWICG) is the successor of the Social Web Working Group, which ran from 2014 to 2017.
Fediverse
- Chat
- BrowserPub
- FediTest
- activitypub-testsuite
- Fediverse Developer Network
- webfinger.net
- activitypub.rocks
IndieWeb
- Chat
- indiewebify.me
- micropub.rocks
- webmention.rocks
- websub.rocks
- Microformats: python, php, node, go, ruby
See Also
- Social Web Foundation, Evan Prodromou, Tom Coates, Mallory Knodel
- How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse, Tom Coates @tomcoates@mastodon.cloud
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Meta/Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue Meeting yesterday, Johannes Ernst
@j12t@j12t.social