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.

Join

• GitHub
• Homepage
• Participants
• Calendar (.ics)
• Mailing List
• Wiki
• Forum

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.

• Video Conference Room
• Notes

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?

Potential Charters

Open Issues

• Committer status
• "no less than One [...] Chairs" -> "no fewer than One [...] Chairs"
• "no less than One [...] Chairs" -> "no fewer than One [...] Chairs"
• Deciding to adopt the CG charter
• Assessing consensus in the CG Charter
• Comparison with existing system
• Amend Social Web Incubator Community Group Charter to contain Start Date
• Add recommendation for licensing to Staging Process
• Update README.md
• AP-only scope for WG: no related notes
• Expand WG Charter to allow additional documents and features per staging process
• Merge staging process into the charter proposal
• Stopping at CG Report level in staging proposal
• Stage 1 should include creating a task force in staging proposal
• 3-stage Standardization Process Proposal in staging proposal
• Assessing consensus in the CG Charter
• Add group dependencies and liaisons to CG Charter
• fix: remove inapplicable comment about test suites
• Remove test suite comment
• fix: remove "Specifications"
• Remove "Specifications" from CG charter
• feat: add scope of work
• CG Charter Filename
• CG: simplify name
• CG Charter Needs: A definition of a Task Force?
• CG Charter needs: Scope definitions
• CG Charter needs: Code of Conduct
• Existing resolutions
• Review CG charter to make sure it's compatible with staging process
• Ontology <> @Context File

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
• Meta/Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue Meeting yesterday, Johannes Ernst @j12t@j12t.social