Three ways we openly document the governance of W3C:
#w3cAB: As part of driving openness in the #W3C Advisory Board (AB) and W3C in general, when I joined the AB in 2013, I created a stub AB wiki page, and worked with the rest of the AB to expand it over time, to the present where it has quick navigation to both our tools and projects^1.
#w3cBoD: Shortly after the W3C Board of Directors (BoD) was elected last year, I similarly created a Board wiki page, with quick navigation to meetings, minutes, and other publicly available Board resources^2.
#w3cAC: Prior AB member Art Barstow created an AdvisoryCommittee (AC) wiki page in 2012. I expanded it in the past year with sections on Email Lists and Meetings to help make it easier (more discoverable) for AC representatives to participate & contribute to the governance of W3C^3.
These are all good steps, but not complete by any measure. Collectively we can do better.
Openness must go beyond finding & reading such resources.
As these are all on the W3C’s public wiki, which any W3C member (or invited expert) may edit, my hope is that anyone involved with W3C may help update such pages, and further improve them. Encouraging this kind of direct participation in how an organization is run goes hand-in-hand with openness & transparency.
^1 https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB
^2 https://www.w3.org/wiki/Board
^3 https://www.w3.org/wiki/AdvisoryCommittee
Good morning from Sophia Antipolis, France, where myself and many other #W3C Advisory Committee (AC), Advisory Board (AB), & Board of Directors (BoD) members, and members of the W3C Team are here for two days of 2023 #w3cAC meetings^1.
Lots of great presentations this morning.
@cwilso.com (@cdub@mastodon.social @cwilso) is now providing an overview of the Advisory Board^2 and where we are with our 2023 Priority Projects^3, which are done for the most part in the open, on the wiki and GitHub.
Our (AB) practice of developing our projects in the open for both W3C Members and the broader web community to see is something that myself and Chris Wilson (@cwilso.com) have been championing, leading, and driving since our first AB terms in 2013.
We strongly believe in continuing this level of transparency (or better) in the #w3cAB, and there is more work to do on the AB to make this practice an institutional default at W3C, especially in matters of governance.
Related: both Chris and I are running for re-election^4 for the Advisory Board, and this is one of the reasons we want your support to continue serving on the AB.
^1 https://web.archive.org/web/20230509090512/https://www.w3.org/participate/meetings
^2 https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB
^3 https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2023_Priorities
^4 https://tantek.com/2023/128/t1/w3c-advisory-board-election-support
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