AB/2025 Priorities

(DRAFT) AB Priorities 2024-2025

Improving Collaboration with the Team

• Lead: Wendy, Chris
• Participants: Max, Amy
• Summary: Defining the role and responsibilities of the AB, how to coordinate with Team projects and initiatives, how we can best deliver feedback and advice in a timely fashion, where the AB is needed most.
• Goals/Tasks:
  • Hold a session with the Team to understand their priorities, interests, and areas they would like our input or collaboration on.

Incubation Transition Guideline

• Lead: Elika
• Participants: Chris, Tantek, Florian
• Summary: Write a document outlining the incubation process and how groups/specifications can transition from community to working group.
• Goals/Tasks:
  • Draft ideas: https://github.com/w3c/AB-memberonly/blob/main/documents/Incubation.md
  • Note ongoing discussion in https://github.com/w3c/AB-memberonly/issues/81.

Defining 3Is

• Lead: Tantek
• Participants: Chris
• Summary: Explore and create consensus on definitions for Interoperable, Independent Implementations to be applied to the recommendations process.
• Goals/Tasks:
  • See individual wiki pages linked in Summary for goals/tasks for each.

Vision

• Lead: Tantek
• Participants: Chris, Max
• Summary: Publish the Vision on the statement track, address open questions and feedback.
• Goals/Tasks:
  • See VisionTF

Improving Communication Horizontally

• Lead: Elena
• Participants: Max, Igarashi, Naomi
• Summary: Explore ways to improve communication within the community, between regions, between W3C areas of interest, and look at ways to improve events or activities to engage more with our community.
• Goals/Tasks:
  • Conduct a communication audit.
    • Evaluate how W3C & its various groups communicate to find gaps and opportunities for improvement.
    • Deliver a report showing what's working and what needs fixing.
  • Explore engaging community activities.
    • Analyze existing event formats within W3C and related communities to understand what works best and how success is measured.
    • Create a set of recommendations with event ideas and tips for engaging audiences.
  • Highlight success stories.
    • Gather and share achievements from different W3C groups to promote knowledge sharing and inspire collaboration.
    • Establish a medium for W3C chapters and groups to exchange success stories and best practices.

AB + TAG Collaboration/Workmode

• Lead: Wendy and Chris
• Participants: Dingwei, Song
• Summary: How can we collaborate with the TAG on projects that interest us both, how do we do the work together?
• Goals/Tasks:

AC Forum Facilitation

• Lead: Wendy
• Participants: Max
• Summary: Figure out how to moderate and facilitate discussions and participation in the AC.
• Goals/Tasks:
  • Define and find volunteers for role of "AC facilitator"
  • Look at ways to improve AC-Forum communication (i.e. explainers, digests of recent messages, summaries)
  • Talk to list users about what they want to see from AC-Forum

Reorganizing W3C Documentation

• Lead: Ding Wei
• Participants: Elika, Elena
• Summary: Look at the structure and organization of documents and ways to improve our documentation for membership.
• Goals/Tasks:

Process

• Leads: Florian and Elika
• Participants: Chris
• Summary: Deliver the next revision of the Process. Focus areas:
  • Chartering
  • REC-track simplifications
  • Director-free follow ups (i.e., fine tuning the Council, TAG appointments…)