Last week I participated @W3.org (@w3c) #W3CAC (W3C Advisory Committee¹), #W3CAB (W3C Advisory Board²@ab), and #W3CBoard (Board of the W3C Corporation³) meetings in Hiroshima, Japan.
The AC (Advisory Committee) meeting was two days, followed by two days of AB and Board meetings which started with a half-day joint session (including the #w3CTAG), then separate meetings to focus on their own tasks & discussions.
The W3C Process⁴ describes the twice a year AC (Advisory Committee) Meetings⁵. In addition to members of the AC (one primary and one alternate per W3C Member Organization), the meetings are open to the AB (Advisory Board), the W3C Board, the W3C TAG (W3C Technical Architecture Group⁶@tag), Working Group⁷ chairs, Chapter⁸ staff, and this time also a W3C Invited Expert designated observer⁹.
The AC currently meets in the Spring on its own and a shorter meeting in the Fall as part of the annual #W3CTPAC (W3C Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee¹⁰ meetings). The existence, dates, and location of the event are public¹¹, however the agenda, minutes, and registrants are generally Member-confidential. Since those individual links have their own access controls, I collected them on a publicly-viewable wiki page for easier discovery & navigation (if you work for a W3C Member Organization¹²):
Most of the W3C meeting materials and discussions were also W3C Member-confidential, however many of the presentations are publicly viewable, and a few more may be shared publicly after the fact.
Myself and others at #W3C who believe in pushing for more openness and transparency in standards work, even (or especially) governance of said work, will be doing our best to work with others at W3C to continue shifting our work accordingly.
Aside: I started the #OpenAB project when I was first elected to the AB (Advisory Board) in 2013, documenting it on the publicly viewable W3C Wiki, and updated it with the help of others since: https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB#Open_AB
Like most conferences, I got as much out of side conversations at breaks (AKA hallway track¹³) and meals as I did from scheduled talks and panels.
For now, here are the events, slides, and videos which are publicly viewable that provide an interesting glimpse into some of the topics discussed:
🖼 slides: https://w3c.github.io/adapt/presentations/ac2024/ Warning: the proposed use of .well-known therein is IMO a bad mistake. Unnecessary reinvention (most handled by existing rel values¹⁴), more complex to author (requires sidefiles¹⁵), harder to publish (requires site admin root access), likely to become inaccurate (Ruby’s postulate¹⁶), and fragile (site admins frequently break .well-known for individual pages). A full critique likely requires its own blog post.
📆 12 March 2024 W3C Breakouts Day 2024
In response to enthusiasm for #w3cTPAC breakout sessions, we are happy to announce an experiment with a remote breakout session event. Anyone with a W3C account (including non-Members) can participate in any session. No fee or registration is required. https://www.w3.org/events/happenings/2024/call-for-w3c-breakouts-day-2024-session-1/
I have Gmail setup as a safari website in the dock, and I get system-level notifications when emails arrive in my inbox, but I don't get any kind of red badge on the app icon when I have unread emails. Does anybody have this working?
At #w3cTPAC, @plehegar and Ding Wei discussed priorities and processes related to incubating new ideas and technologies within @w3c: "Identifying future work – what should be our process for considering new work"
The @sovtechfund invests in Open Web Docs and will support two @MDN browser-compat-data (BCD) projects that address how BCD is updated, maintained, and accessed.
(1/2) B6+, the slide framework in JavaScript, got some enhancements after feedback at #w3cTPAC. It's now quicker to start a slide show, there is even a button for it. If the style sheet supports it, another button toggles light & dark styles. Exiting the slide show back to the slide index is also quicker (one press of Esc instead of two).
Tried the “Add to Dock…” in #Safari in Mac OS Sonoma, and while it seems to work nicely, it does not get the stylesheet defined in Safari's preferences applied :(
And I'm not sure if there is a way to make an extension work as well?
Would be really nice to be able to add custom CSS to a dock app this way.
Accessibility is an integral part of W3C Inc.'s mission and vision, and during #w3cTPAC, Shawn Henry gave an activity upate for @wai in 2023 #a11y#accessibility
As first-time attendee of the @w3c#w3cTPAC mid-September 2023, @patrickbrosset wrote a very interesting --and refreshing-- first impressions and explanation of how the "sausage is made" when it comes to web features and web standardization.
Did you miss parts of the TPAC 2023 in Seville?
Several groups prepared videos with presentations and demos including:
WoT
CSS
Audio
Pointer Events
WebRTC
WebDX
Web & networks
Check it out! #w3cTPAC https://www.w3.org/2023/09/TPAC/group-updates.html
@patrickbrosset thanks for that excellent write up! We're delighted that your experience of #w3cTPAC matches what we set it out to be: coordinate solutions to technical issues by gathering in a single event several meetings between the W3C Members and Boards, W3C Working and Interest Groups, as well as a series of breakout sessions determined by the attendees.
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