10:09:27 RRSAgent has joined #community 10:09:27 logging to http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-irc 10:09:38 Milan has joined #community 10:09:38 KenjiBX has joined #community 10:09:45 meeting: Community and Business Groups: Plenary Discussion 10:10:01 scribe: JoshSoref 10:10:11 timeless_scribe has joined #community 10:10:14 scribenick: timeless_scribe 10:10:20 shige has joined #community 10:10:25 -> http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/ij-tpac2012-plenary/#(1) Slides: Community and Business Groups: Plenary Discussion 10:10:27 chair: IanJ 10:10:28 kboudaoud has joined #community 10:10:35 meeting: CommunityZ 10:10:40 RRSAgent, draft minutes 10:10:40 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 10:10:54 cygri has joined #community 10:11:23 Ian: the most time consuming part for me 10:11:28 ... is talking to them about the CLA 10:11:31 ... what it means to join 10:11:36 ... we can improve the UI 10:11:41 ... and make it easier for non-members to join 10:11:48 [currently, 1934 individual participants] 10:11:49 ... examples of successful groups 10:11:54 stats on participation: http://www.w3.org/2012/Talks/ij-tpac2012-plenary/#(3) 10:11:55 ... Responsive Images 10:12:07 ... this CG represents the vision we had for CGs 10:12:14 ... you had a guy who had never done standards work 10:12:20 ... he went into whatwg 10:12:22 ... bounced off 10:12:26 ... he formed a CG 10:12:44 ... they developed an idea 10:12:48 ... it was pitched to WG 10:12:53 ... and was used to form idea 10:12:57 ... JSON-LD 10:13:33 ... can WGs take up things from CGs? 10:13:37 ... they can if they're already in charter 10:13:49 ... there are some CGs which have totally stalled 10:13:56 ... we've created a CG Council CG 10:13:59 ... to document issues 10:14:07 jeff_ has joined #community 10:14:12 ... "Chair Selection" 10:14:27 RRSAgent, make logs public 10:14:35 RRSAgent, draft minutes 10:14:35 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 10:14:44 present+ Josh_Soref 10:14:49 present+ Ian_Jacobs 10:14:51 mchampion_ has joined #community 10:14:56 present+ Daniel_Burnett 10:15:04 RRSAgent, draft minutes 10:15:04 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 10:15:43 ... in WGs, there's a way to handle Chairs not working w/ participants 10:15:56 ... one theme for change is: what's the minimal change needed 10:16:06 ... what can we fix through Good Practice v. Rules 10:16:17 ... questions about chairs listening to participants 10:16:22 ... maybe we can have a default charter 10:16:28 ... at first blush, it sounds ok 10:16:37 -> http://www.w3.org/community/council/ Community Council 10:16:40 ... but let's not have it be the default, but let's have them actively choose it 10:16:45 RRSAgent, draft minutes 10:16:45 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 10:16:57 XXX: what was the reason? 10:17:06 martinAlvarez has joined #community 10:17:07 Ian: I want people to make a conscious decision 10:17:10 ... to adopt the rules 10:17:22 s/XXX:/Milan:/ 10:17:32 Milan: if we give groups a charter 10:17:39 ... and "if you don't like, please describe what you want" 10:17:44 Ian: it could be that 10:17:52 ... but people don't necessarily know what they want 10:17:58 ... or how they want to run things 10:18:03 ... it requires a lot of training 10:18:09 ... i don't know that they know everything in advance 10:18:16 ... people respond "we're not going to pick our chairs yet" 10:18:20 ... i'm like "pick your chair" 10:18:27 ... i don't want to force anything 10:18:34 burn: Dan Burn, AT&T 10:18:45 s/Burn/Druta/ 10:18:56 ... how do you deal w/ overlap? 10:19:00 s/burn:/ddruta:/ 10:19:01 AndroUser has joined #community 10:19:07 Ian: CG process says "Groups choose their own chairs" 10:19:17 RRSAgent, draft minutes 10:19:17 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 10:19:39 Ian: process could be strengthened on how one chooses chairs 10:19:45 ... there's risks in any approach 10:19:52 ... if we vote and 80% say Joe should be chair 10:19:53 ... done 10:20:00 ... problem, there's a denial of service capability 10:20:08 ... you could the next day have another vote, and another vote 10:20:22 ... how do we address chair selection to help avoid creating a DoS capability 10:20:34 ... e.g. only can vote for chair N-weeks after last vote 10:20:47 Ian: today, people can create a group, they're free and fast 10:20:57 ... but it was suggested to strengthen chair selection 10:21:08 ... another question was Transition of Work from CG/BG to WG 10:21:24 ... Patent Policies/Copyright Policies are designed to make this easy 10:21:30 ... Contributor Agreement say this: 10:21:41 ... if you have a contribution, and part of the spec goes to WG track 10:21:52 ... then your commitment follows on to that WG track 10:22:07 ... so stuff goes to WG+standard easily 10:22:11 ... but not in opposite direction 10:22:21 ... CG produces spec, hands off, goes to do other things 10:22:30 ... another way to make it possible is Invited Expert policy 10:22:47 ... we've made that easier for CGs 10:22:52 ... because we want continuity 10:23:10 ... we still seek your Membership 10:23:15 ... but we make it easier 10:23:27 ... it's a grace period 10:23:33 ... next, there's WGs finish v1.0 10:23:45 ... CG is launched for v2 10:24:01 ... but there's no commitment from the WG into the CG 10:24:19 ... CGs are allowed to have overlapping 10:24:40 q+ dsinger to raise point about needing default/baseline 10:24:50 ddruta: XXA 10:24:55 Ian: we recommend charters 10:25:05 ... people typically give us short overview 10:25:13 ... some give us detailed charter, like CoreMob CG 10:25:20 ddruta: not a full verbose description 10:25:33 ... there are 3 specs here, they don't address features A,B,C, we're here to address that 10:25:36 Ian: I love that 10:25:42 ... not all CGs are in that position, but yes 10:26:01 Ian: CGs are working on something, want to hand off v1, but want to enhance for v2 10:26:04 ... we think that's ok 10:26:19 ... Transition problem 10:26:28 ... WG could want to take up CG 10:26:35 ... or CG might want WG to take it up 10:26:46 ... process: WG tech reports must be in English (US) 10:27:06 ... but other IGs/CGs could work in another language 10:27:30 ... for Patent policy 10:27:44 ... we want you to get Final Spec agreement from the 10 most important contributors 10:27:54 ... it's a question of community being convinced they have sufficient coverage 10:28:10 Suresh: who decides that? 10:28:23 Ian: in the case, where a WG wants to take up a spec 10:28:37 ... the WG decides 10:28:46 q? 10:29:08 Suresh: in resp images 10:29:16 ... when it was moved to HTML CG 10:29:20 s/CG/WG/ 10:29:28 ... was a commitment gathered before the move? 10:29:30 Ian: Yes 10:29:46 ... This was for the case where the WG wanted this 10:29:53 ... politeness says to talk to the CG before they do this 10:30:04 ... we don't have rules against taking up w/o dialog 10:30:10 ... but we expect it 10:30:14 ... if no WG has scope 10:30:26 ... directory proposes to membership 10:30:58 ... we'd ask CG to help draft charter 10:31:08 XXA: Is this for BG too? 10:31:12 Ian: yes, CG/BG are identicall 10:31:15 s/all/al/ 10:31:19 Ian: skipping licensing 10:31:22 s/XXA/Kaz/ 10:31:32 ... We have CG Council CG 10:31:35 ... it doesn't meet regularly 10:31:38 ... we're not using it 10:31:38 s/identicall/identical/ 10:31:46 tpacbot has joined #community 10:31:59 ... infrastructure to build, is Tracking/Dashboard 10:32:03 didn't think what the result could be 10:32:04 ... what work should i be doing 10:32:09 RRSAgent, draft minutes 10:32:09 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 10:32:20 ... we're working on a redesign ofUI 10:32:28 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html Alan 10:32:29 s/didn't think what the result could be// 10:32:41 dom has joined #community 10:32:41 [ time check : 20 minutes ] 10:32:48 Milan: Milan Young 10:33:00 ... I understood why you didn't want to impose requiremment for operating agreement 10:33:07 ... if a group elects not to have an operating agreement 10:33:16 q+ 10:33:17 ... a group should post a warning indicating it's doing this 10:33:35 ... you said you were looking for an algorithm for Chair selection 10:33:44 ... what if you could have an invisible vote of confidence on chair 10:33:52 ... if 60% of chair is listed as unhappy 10:34:00 ... maybe an email could be sent out 10:34:09 Ian: like France vote of no confidence 10:34:28 broadcasters are complaining having limitation to get slides or irc on time 10:34:32 ... what if you get new members? 10:34:38 ... and stack the vote? 10:34:47 ... Today, if you go into a group 10:34:48 q? 10:34:50 ... produce a report 10:34:54 ... "final specification" 10:34:57 ... if you go through XG process 10:35:06 ... staff/fair principled leadership 10:35:20 ... if you get something that sounds weaker 10:35:30 ... whatever specification should be signed by the operating agreement 10:35:43 ... if that agrement is "wild west" 10:35:59 Ian: so can you reflect the policy of the group for creeation into the thing 10:36:07 Judy: appreciate your comment about naming 10:36:17 present+ Martin_Alvarez 10:36:18 s/creea/crea/ 10:36:18 s/broadcasters are complianing having limitation to get slides or irc on time// 10:36:29 q? 10:36:37 ... w3c has for a long time had problem with the outcome documents 10:36:42 ... when we started CG process 10:36:52 ... we wanted to avoid having CG process confused with WG process 10:37:01 ... for WAI of W3C 10:37:09 ... we're ramping up horizontal review 10:37:10 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html Alan 10:37:17 ... it wasn't reflected in AC discussion yesterday 10:37:27 ... part of W3 process is WG products have cross review 10:37:34 ... complaints about CG is 10:37:39 ... one CG has "living standard" 10:37:42 ... which creates confusion 10:37:53 ... your point about "final specification" sounding "more final" is an interesting point 10:38:04 Ian: the document isn't called that 10:38:08 ... we have a legal agreement 10:38:12 burn: it doesn't prohibit it 10:38:19 Judy: it would be nice to get meaning clearer 10:38:21 ack dsinger 10:38:21 dsinger, you wanted to raise point about needing default/baseline 10:38:36 dsinger: I think CGs need a 'default/baseline' process, as many don't want to invent their own, and I think we need some filtering of proposed CGs to make sure that proposals for CGs are well described etc. -- reduce noise and proliferation. just 2 cents 10:38:52 [Josh reading dsinger's note] 10:38:57 Ian: I do that filtering up front 10:39:04 ... we sometimes adjust their descriptions dynamically 10:39:06 ack burn 10:39:13 burn: some have seen this email 10:39:21 ... have as a threat, half as a joke, half seriously 10:39:27 ... steps in Speech API 10:39:30 ... "why can't this occur" 10:39:34 s/have as/half as/ 10:39:35 ... i create a new CG "HTML 6" 10:39:48 ... with me as chair, requires a few people, not members 10:40:04 ... I nominate them (Milan, Jim) as editors 10:40:11 ... I believe i can create following press release 10:40:19 [ burn reads press release ] 10:40:28 Suresh has joined #community 10:40:36 burn: i didn't say "CG", i didn't say "Standard" 10:40:38 Kiyoshi has joined #community 10:40:42 ... world at large doesn't understand the distinction 10:40:43 q+ 10:40:51 ... Milan had constructive suggestions 10:41:00 ... i don't usually like to complain w/o constructive suggestions 10:41:08 ... when people behave properly, you don't need laws/robert's rules 10:41:15 ... when you have people who don't see the need to behave 10:41:22 ... how do you stop this chain of events from occuring 10:41:25 ... with html 10:41:35 ... if i did that, there'd be so many people saying "what, this is a crock" 10:41:40 ... but this happened in Speech 10:41:41 Yuan has joined #community 10:41:46 ... there's a narrower area 10:41:51 ... fewer people to raise an issue 10:41:54 Ian: great question 10:42:04 ... 1. we could have started CGs w/ Robert's Rules of Order 10:42:11 ... it was anithetical to what we wanted to do 10:42:19 ... it was a conscious choice for minimally constraining 10:42:27 ... ok, can be tweaked 10:42:37 ... i can't guarantee it'll prevent every bad scenario 10:42:45 ... index of reports is different 10:42:52 ... can't prevent that by choice 10:43:00 ... incrementally add bits to improve situation 10:43:05 ... i don't expect a giant process 10:43:15 q+ 10:43:18 burn: this is a sequence of events, break it somewhere 10:43:23 ... i don't see a way to stop that sequence 10:43:27 Ian: there are some mechanisms 10:43:31 ... new proposals 10:43:37 ... if person is from trusted set 10:43:42 ... "member/team" 10:43:47 ... it goes to proposed state 10:43:59 s/broadcasters are complaining having limitation to get slides or irc on time// 10:43:59 ... non trusted, requries me to approve 10:44:02 q? 10:44:15 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html Alan 10:44:16 ddruta: a value of CGs is non-member participants 10:44:28 ... example of happy was non member starting process 10:44:33 ... if you have members starting CGs 10:44:36 ... i'd argue that's not trusted 10:44:41 ... because they have other opportunities 10:44:50 Ian: that's the one way without Staff interaction 10:44:54 q? 10:44:55 ack Suresh 10:44:58 q+ jim 10:45:10 Suresh: we've been in a couple of CGs 10:45:20 ... clearly there should be a best practices document 10:45:24 ... what is clear scope 10:45:29 ... ideally set in stone at beginning 10:45:35 ... can't have evolving strategy 10:45:39 Ian: you can 10:45:45 Suresh: there's an individual commitment 10:45:53 Ian: you only commit to your commitments 10:45:59 Ian: good practices don't surprise people 10:46:02 Suresh: be specific 10:46:04 ... 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What gaps is this trying to fill 10:46:18 ... which WG is this targeting? 10:46:22 ... could be a form to fill out 10:46:28 ... comment about Living Standard 10:46:36 ... set a timeline of expiration for a CG 10:46:53 Suresh: set 12/18 months expiration if you don't deliver something w/in time 10:47:00 Ian: we need ways to measure activity of a group 10:47:11 ... we've had people who say "don't close us down, we have 500 people" 10:47:20 Ian: we have a plan to contact them 10:47:24 Ian: we need tools for this 10:47:25 q? 10:47:27 ack ddahl 10:47:31 ddahl: question of naming 10:47:33 ... it's strange 10:47:42 ... that document w/ light level of process should be called specification 10:47:44 Ian: why? 10:47:50 ddahl: it carries a lot of meaning 10:47:58 ... especially with W3C branding 10:48:12 rename "Final specification" to "Final Report" 10:48:23 ddahl: i read the boilerplate 10:48:27 ... i'm not typical 10:48:36 ... but people says hey look, i can do X 10:48:44 ... the word specification is misleading 10:48:49 ... very easy to rename 10:49:38 [ the document Ian showed used Specification ] 10:49:46 [ elsewhere Ian showed places with "Report" ] 10:49:55 jim: call it this report 10:49:59 ... and stick expiration date 10:50:11 Ian: we don't want things to disappear from web 10:50:22 ... we could have "this is not a standard" 10:50:29 jim: getting "specification" out 10:50:39 ... and have votes be by Organization 10:50:49 ... what burn proposed for html6 10:51:00 ... had more companies behind it than what happened 10:51:06 Ian: spectrum of ways groups operate 10:51:11 ... we should explain how they operated 10:51:15 ... but people say they don't read 10:51:19 ... i don't want blanket statements 10:51:20 q? 10:51:20 q? 10:51:25 ack jim 10:51:30 jim: ideally it should go to a WG 10:51:33 ... we want it to go to a WG 10:51:40 ... don't make it look like a WG product 10:51:47 ... some guys' smart ideas 10:52:57 Josh: QQ 10:53:03 Ian: there's a better process in CGs 10:53:05 ... than in WGs 10:53:10 ... we have less maintenance to do 10:53:13 q? 10:53:26 Ian: thank you all, i got a strong message 10:53:37 ... join Community Council to help further 10:53:39 [ Applause ] 10:53:47 ddahl has left #community 10:53:51 martinAlvarez has left #community 10:54:29 s/QQ/There's a problem with documents in WGs+CGs being non final and lasting for a long time but not being updated to say "this is obsolete"/ 10:54:50 burn: i wonder if we could have a thing in the logo itself 10:54:56 cygri_ has joined #community 10:54:57 Ian: or you could have it in a watermark 10:55:03 RRSAgent, draft minutes 10:55:03 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 10:55:55 present+ HJ_Lee, Alexandre_Morgant, Yuan_Ji, Alfred_Newan, Naomi_Yoshigama, Coraline_Mercier 10:56:02 alexandremorgaut has joined #community 10:56:09 s/Coraline/Coralie/ 10:56:19 s/Alfred_Newman/AlanB/ 10:56:23 present+ Jim)Barnett, Debbie_Dahl, Karima_Boudaoud 10:56:41 s/)/_/ 10:56:46 s/gama/zawa/ 10:57:34 present+ Milan_Young, Kaz_Ashimura, Richard_Cyganiak, Suresh_Chitturi 10:57:38 RRSAgent, draft minutes 10:57:38 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 10:57:49 Alan has left #community 10:58:11 s|s/identicall/identical/|| 10:58:22 s|s/broadcasters are complianing having limitation to get slides or irc on time//|| 10:58:24 RRSAgent, draft minutes 10:58:24 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 11:00:02 s|s/Alfred_Newman/AlanB/|| 11:00:09 s/Alfred_Newan/AlanB/ 11:00:11 RRSAgent, draft minutes 11:00:11 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 11:02:39 present+ Kiyoshi_Tanaka, dom, Judy_Brewer, Kenji_Baheux, Jean-Michel_Rouger, Stephanie_Tabary 11:02:48 RRSAgent, draft minutes 11:02:48 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 11:03:34 s/JoshSoref/Josh_Soref/ 11:03:35 RRSAgent, draft minutes 11:03:35 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 11:04:58 cygri has joined #community 11:09:46 jeff_ has joined #community 11:10:31 present+ Dave_Singer 11:10:33 RRSAgent, draft minutes 11:10:33 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 11:10:34 RRSAgent, draft minutes 11:10:34 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/10/31-community-minutes.html timeless_scribe 11:11:20 naomi has joined #community 11:18:15 dsinger has joined #community 11:21:44 dsinger has joined #community 12:18:10 naomi has joined #community 12:18:20 dsinger has joined #community 12:19:06 dsinger has joined #community 12:31:22 dsinger has joined #community 12:36:56 dsinger has left #community 12:39:42 alexandremorgaut has joined #community 12:40:04 cygri has joined #community 12:40:28 cygri has left #community 12:47:48 tpacbot has joined #community 12:48:50 tpacbot has joined #community 12:54:12 Zakim has left #community 13:16:30 alexandremorgaut has joined #community 13:36:05 naomi has joined #community 14:05:01 Ian has joined #community 14:54:20 naomi has joined #community 15:02:45 naomi has joined #community 17:21:20 tpacbot has joined #community