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== Summary ==
The Vision Task Force (VisionTF) is part of the AB’s [[AB/2025_Priorities#Vision|2025 Vision Priority Project]] to publish the Vision for W3C, and bring it forward in W3.org/W3C documentation.

* Vision TF Chair: Max Gendler
* Vision Editor: Tantek Çelik

=== Drafts Repository Issues ===
* [https://www.w3.org/TR/w3c-vision/ Official Draft]
* [https://w3c.github.io/AB-public/Vision Editor’s Draft]
* [https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/tree/main/Vision Document Repository]
* [https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Project+Vision%22+-label%3ADefer Open Issues]

=== Goals ===
* ✅ publish an AB-consensus NOTE developed with the community
** https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/NOTE-w3c-vision-20240403/
* ✅ publish updated AB-consensus NOTE for wide & horizontal reviews
** https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/NOTE-w3c-vision-20241018/
* process and resolve all issues, including from review, document disposition of issues
* publish AB-consensus Statement for AC vote
* create a W3C-endorsed, W3C-wide Vision Statement for the organization

== Workmode ==
The VisionTF workmode is maintained by the chair & editor, building on the what worked in the VisionTF Experiment and best practices from the TAG and BoD.

=== Who ===
Who / Task Force Participants:
* work with W3C Members
* participation open to W3C Members, Invited Experts, and Team
* AB approval based, that any Member can ask to join the TF, pending AB approval, and AB will require member to be in good standing, and obeying Process
** Member may ask to join (email ab@w3.org to request joining Vision TF), AB opens an ab-private issue for discussion, if no objections within a week, AB approves (inspired by TAG TF practices for e.g. Privacy Policy TF)
* keep it smaller and more nimble (inspired by BoD TF discussions)
* at most one participant per member org

=== How ===
How the Vision TF will does its work:

* The TF conducts meetings as needed and publishes minutes in Member-only space to allow participants to speak more freely; but maintains editors' drafts and issue discussion in public, [https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues in the AB-public GitHub repo], to allow broader input

* For any open PRs of small edits (editorial or similar)
** Editor and/or Chair check / review (including each by the other), then push async upon approval

* Work Async on issues/PRs by default/prefered
** actively seeking consensus of all Task Force participants, but taking formal decisions by consensus of the AB

* Meeting agendas prepared & prioritized by chair in advance as needed from:
** any other issues with PRs
** issues with specific proposals that are agenda+'d (label or comment)
** issues with "needs input"
** if no agenda is sent 24hrs beforehand (by Chair or Editor), sync meeting is auto-canceled

* AB approves publication of updated drafts, including any updated Notes if needed
* Triage and resolve all Statement-blocker issues (including any potential FOs)
* Publish a Statement draft for approval by the AC
* AC vote to take it to a Statement
* iterate based on AC feedback
* Official W3C Statement published

=== What ===
What: Content & Issues scope:
* Direct relevance to improving The Vision document
* Not issues for other [[AB]] documents
* Not issues for Board scope or Board purpose or other [[Board]] documents
* No rewrites. The Vision has been through a number of rough consensus rewrites already and due to diminishing returns the TF is no longer considering large rewrites of the Vision. Please raise individual content issues instead.
* "Note" update blockers, issues which participants would object to an updated "Note"
* "Statement" blockers, issues which participants would object to going to Statement
* AB members may add labels to help with processing issues

=== When ===
When / meeting schedule and milestone goals, and respective next steps:
* Telcons as needed: 2nd & 4th Thursdays at 14:00 PST
* ✅ Milestone 1: Getting to Note (before or soon after Spring 2024 [[AC]])
* ✅ Milestone 1.5: Resolve all [https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22needed+for+Statement%22 Statement-blocker issues] (completed 2024-09-27 after most issues resolved at [https://www.w3.org/2024/09/25-vision-minutes.html 2024-09-25 meeting])
* ✅ Milestone 1.6: Create thorough Changes section from prior Note
* ✅ Milestone 1.7: Resolve all [https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Project+Vision%22+-label%3ADefer open PRs] (merge, defer, or close)
* Milestone 1.8: Publish updated Note and explicit calls (GH issue or email per group) for Wide & Horizontal Reviews, and blog post (see [https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues/195 wide and horizontal reviews tracking #195])
* Milesston 1.9: Address all issues, and provide (summary?) documentation thereof
* Milestone 2: Publish Statement draft (as a Note) for AC vote
* Milestone 2.5: Publish AC-approved W3C Statement
* Re-assess maintenance mode after achieving Statement publication

== Meeting Agendas Minutes ==
=== 2024 ===
In October 2024, [https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/2024OctDec/0064.html Chris Wilson stepped down from chairing the Vision TF and Max Gendler stepped up to chair] (Member-only ac-forum), also announced in [https://www.w3.org/2024/10/15-ac-minutes.html#f263 AB-led Member Meeting] (Member-only minutes).
* Vision TF Chair: Max Gendler
* Vision Editor: Tantek Çelik

In July 2024, the AB renewed the [[AB/2025_Priorities#Vision|Vision Priority Project for 2025]].

The AB restarted the Vision Task Force (VisionTF) in 2024 as part of the AB’s [[AB/2024_Priorities#Vision|2024 Vision Priority Project]] with a new workmode based what was learned during the [[#2023_Vision_TF_Experiment|VisionTF 2023 experiment]], and iterating based on ongoing evaluation & feedback by the AB.

In late 2023 the [https://www.w3.org/2023/12/21-ab-minutes#r03 AB resolved to change the chairing/editing] (Member-only link) of Vision TF & Vision for 2024 (until subsequently updated in 2024 October)
* Vision TF Chair: Chris Wilson
* Vision Editor: Tantek Çelik

{| class="wikitable"
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! Date !! Agenda !! Minutes
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| 2024-09-25 ||  [[AB/VisionTF/2024-09-25|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2024/09/25-vision-minutes.html 2024-09-25 Minutes], [https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/601b0f92-e5ea-4e16-b767-2fceeb7094f9/ event]
|- 
|-

|}

=== 2023 ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Date !! Agenda !! Minutes
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| 2023-10-26 ||  [[AB/VisionTF/2023-10-26|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2023/10/26-vision-minutes.html Minutes 2023-10-26]
|-
|-
| 2023-10-12 || CANCELED || CANCELED
|-
| 2023-09-28 || [[AB/VisionTF/2023-09-28|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2023/09/28-vision-minutes.html Minutes 2023-09-28]
|-
| 2023-09-12 || [[AB/VisionTF/2023-09-12|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2023/09/12-vision-minutes.html Minutes 2023-09-12]
|-
| 2023-08-24|| [[AB/VisionTF/2023-08-24|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2023/08/24-vision-minutes.html Minutes 2023-08-24]
|-
| 2023-08-10|| [[AB/VisionTF/2023-08-10|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2023/08/10-vision-minutes.html Minutes 2023-08-10]
|-
| 2023-07-13 || [[AB/VisionTF/2023-07-13|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2023/07/13-vision-minutes.html Minutes 2023-07-13]
|-
| 2023-06-22 || [[AB/VisionTF/2023-06-22|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2023/06/22-vision-minutes.html Minutes 2023-06-22]
|-
| 2023-06-08 || [[AB/VisionTF/2023-06-08|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2023/06/08-vision-minutes.html Minutes 2023-06-08]
|-
| 2023-05-25 || [[AB/VisionTF/2023-05-25|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2023/05/25-vision-minutes.html Minutes 2023-05-25]
|-
| 2023-05-11 || CANCELED || CANCELED
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| 2023-04-27 || [[AB/VisionTF/2023-04-27|Agenda]] || [https://www.w3.org/2023/04/27-vision-minutes.html Minutes 2023-04-27]
|-

|}

== 2023 Vision TF Experiment ==
On 6 April 2023, the AB resolved to open a temporary Task Force (TF) to [https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/tree/main/Vision work on the Vision]:
* Chair: Tzviya Siegman
* Editor: Chris Wilson
* with the ultimate goal of creating a W3C-endorsed, W3C-wide Vision statement for the organization
* with the initial task of publishing an AB-consensus [https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#WGNote NOTE] developed with the community as a first step towards that goal
* with the explicit intention of working with the community in a manner yet to be determined to subsequently revise and elevate this NOTE to a [https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#memo W3C Statement] representing a consensus Vision for W3C
* with Task Force participation open to W3C Members, Invited Experts, and Team, actively seeking consensus of all Task Force participants, but taking formal decisions by consensus of the AB
* meeting bi-weekly during the AB slot on weeks the AB does not meet from now until the end of the upcoming AB membership transition
* conducting meetings and publishing minutes in Member-only space to allow participants to speak more freely; but maintaining editors' drafts and issue discussion in public, [https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues in the AB-public GitHub repo], to allow broader input
The Task Force was continued as part of the AB’s [[AB/2024_Priorities#Vision|2024 Vision Priority Project]] through October 2023.

== 2023 Meeting Schedule and Agenda ==

* Meeting Time: [https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230427T14 14:00 UTC]
* Meeting Coordinates: [https://www.w3.org/groups/tf/vision/calendar/ W3C Calendar],   | [https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2023AprJun/0028.html Member Visible] | [https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Group/group-invited-experts/2023Apr/0003.html Invited-Expert Visible]