AB/VisionTF

Summary

On 6 April 2023, the AB resolved to open a temporary Task Force (TF) to work on the Vision:

• 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.

Drafts, Repository, Issue-tracking

• Official Draft
• Editor’s Draft
• Open Issues

2023 Meeting Schedule and Agenda

• Meeting Time: 14:00 UTC
• Meeting Coordinates: W3C Calendar, | Member Visible | Invited-Expert Visible

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

Proposed 2024 Vision TF Workmode

In late 2023 the AB resolved to change the chairing/editing of Vision TF & Vision:

• Vision TF Chair: Chris Wilson
• Vision Editor: Tantek Çelik

This section is a proposed 2024 Vision TF Workmode update by the chair & editor, building on the Summary of the prior Vision TF description (to be incorporated upon AB approval of proposed update).

Who

Who / Participants:

• same level of openness with the following changes:
• 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
  • straw proposal, someone asks to join (emails [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)
• keep it smaller and more nimble (inspired by BoD TF discussions)
• at most one participant per member org

How

How the Vision TF will do its work

• 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

• Meeting agendas prepared & prioritized by chair in advance from:
  • any other issues with PRs
  • issues with specific proposals that are agenda+'d (label or comment)
  • issues with "needs input"

Updated during AB f2f:

• AB approves publication of updated drafts, including taking to Note
• AC vote to take it to a Statement

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" blockers, issues which participants would object to going to "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

• Telcons: 2nd & 4th Thursdays at 14:00 PST
• Milestone 1: Getting to Note (before or soon after Spring 2024 AC)
• Milestone 2: Getting to Statement
• Re-assess maintenance mode after achieving Statement publication