AB/VisionTF

Summary

The AB is restarting the Vision Task Force (VisionTF) 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 of Vision TF & Vision for 2024:

Vision TF Chair: Max Gendler
Vision Editor: Tantek Çelik

Drafts Repository 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
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 do 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
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

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