AB/VisionTF
Summary
The Vision Task Force (VisionTF) is part of the AB’s 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
Goals
- ✅ publish an AB-consensus NOTE developed with the community
- ✅ publish updated AB-consensus NOTE for wide & horizontal reviews
- 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 [email protected] 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, 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 Statement-blocker issues (completed 2024-09-27 after most issues resolved at 2024-09-25 meeting)
- ✅ Milestone 1.6: Create thorough Changes section from prior Note
- ✅ Milestone 1.7: Resolve all 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 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, Chris Wilson stepped down from chairing the Vision TF and Max Gendler stepped up to chair (Member-only ac-forum), also announced in AB-led Member Meeting (Member-only minutes).
- Vision TF Chair: Max Gendler
- Vision Editor: Tantek Çelik
In July 2024, the AB renewed the Vision Priority Project for 2025.
The AB restarted the Vision Task Force (VisionTF) in 2024 as part of the AB’s 2024 Vision Priority Project with a new workmode based what was learned during the VisionTF 2023 experiment, and iterating based on ongoing evaluation & feedback by the AB.
In late 2023 the 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
| Date | Agenda | Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-25 | Agenda | 2024-09-25 Minutes, event |
2023
| Date | Agenda | Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-26 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-10-26 |
| 2023-10-12 | CANCELED | CANCELED |
| 2023-09-28 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-09-28 |
| 2023-09-12 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-09-12 |
| 2023-08-24 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-08-24 |
| 2023-08-10 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-08-10 |
| 2023-07-13 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-07-13 |
| 2023-06-22 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-06-22 |
| 2023-06-08 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-06-08 |
| 2023-05-25 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-05-25 |
| 2023-05-11 | CANCELED | CANCELED |
| 2023-04-27 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-04-27 |
2023 Vision TF Experiment
On 6 April 2023, the AB resolved to open a temporary Task Force (TF) to 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 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 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, in the AB-public GitHub repo, to allow broader input
The Task Force was continued as part of the AB’s 2024 Vision Priority Project through October 2023.
2023 Meeting Schedule and Agenda
- Meeting Time: 14:00 UTC
- Meeting Coordinates: W3C Calendar, | Member Visible | Invited-Expert Visible