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I am hoping to work on developing horizontal review 20:26:26 q+ tnitot 20:26:30 ack tzviya8 20:26:35 ack tzviya 20:26:38 tzviya8: another great news is that tnitot has joined the TAG 20:27:25 tzviya8: I don't think anyone has the time to review every single specification… so is it something like is this specification ruining the planet? it is mostly about the impact that the spec has, not the spec itself 20:27:28 ack tnitot 20:27:58 tnitot: I am Tristan, have been involved with web standards for a while… spent 17 years at Mozilla, now for the past 5-6 years have been focusing mostly on sustainability 20:28:05 tnitot: have recently been appointed TAG member 20:28:15 tnitot: still trying to figure out how to help 20:28:29 tnitot: I think sustainability horizontal review is very promising 20:28:36 q? 20:28:37 tnitot: if you have ideas on how I can help, come talk to me 20:28:44 q+ 20:28:49 ack addison 20:29:12 addison: one thing to think about re horizontal reviews… there is reviewing spec, but one thing that worked well for us is to build a short checklist 20:29:17 q+ 20:29:32 addison: this helps focus the work 20:29:32 q+ to strong +1 a checklist and see who here would be interested in drafting one in the Sustainability CG? 20:29:34 q+ to ask what sustainability means 20:29:40 q- later 20:29:57 tnitot: do you think along the lines of privacy and security is it along those lines? 20:29:57 present+ hdv 20:30:00 present+ tnitot 20:30:04 present+ cwilso 20:30:06 q? 20:30:13 scribe+ 20:30:17 ack hdv 20:30:29 present+ ralph 20:30:33 present+ rigo 20:30:37 hdv: We have a11y checklist called FAST, and it might be useful as well 20:30:44 q? 20:30:50 ack tzviya 20:30:50 tzviya, you wanted to ask what sustainability means 20:30:50 https://w3c.github.io/apa/fast/ 20:31:14 tzviya8: maybe we can talk about… what does sustainability mean? 20:31:26 tantek: I can link to the ethical web principles 20:31:52 https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/NOTE-ethical-web-principles-20240813/#sustainable 20:31:54 chuck has joined #sustainability 20:32:26 tantek: it talks about environmental sustainability, there are a few examples, like carbon emissions and reducing electronic waste 20:32:40 tantek: I would personally also add water consumption, or, in general, natural resource consumption 20:32:43 https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/intro.html#what-is-web-sustainability 20:32:47 jenstrickland has joined #sustainability 20:32:54 tantek: if we don't have a good definition of what it means it makes it hard to make a checklist 20:33:00 present+ 20:33:47 q? 20:33:58 q? 20:34:01 q+ 20:34:14 tantek: as a sustainability enthusiast I know enough to be dangerous so glad to facilitate folks who know more as a chair 20:34:38 tantek: we could look at what new technology might do as opposed to what technology could do 20:34:42 q+ 20:34:46 tantek: it's hard to anticipate how things could go wrong 20:34:55 q+ 20:35:01 tantek: do certain technology patterns lead to certain harms in certain situations? 20:35:12 q? 20:35:15 ack tantek 20:35:15 tantek, you wanted to strong +1 a checklist and see who here would be interested in drafting one in the Sustainability CG? 20:35:20 tantek: how could a new technology impact sustainability? probably requires a lot of collaboration including with other folks 20:35:45 tantek: to me a checklist is a great way to get horizontal review to start 20:36:16 sees tzviya, tnitot, dmarti, timo, jgraham 20:36:20 raises their hands 20:36:33 tantek: who would like to help with this? 20:36:55 tzviya8: and the to be fomed sustainability interest group would probably have great folks to help with this 20:37:09 q? 20:37:10 tantek: is anyone particularly interesting in drafting or editing? 20:37:17 The CG put together a big list, it appears that starting with that and finding the ones applicable to horizontal review? https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/#web-development 20:37:32 tzviya8: question for us to ask is if it would be based on web sustainability guidelines or not? 20:37:42 tantek: I think they're related but not the same 20:37:46 q+ q? 20:37:48 q? 20:37:52 q- q? 20:37:53 q? 20:37:58 ack dmarti 20:38:18 s|https://w3c.github.io/apa/fast/|https://w3c.github.io/apa/fast/ 20:38:20 dmarti: wanted to ask about lifespan of devices, does that include right to repair or would that get us too far from web sustainability? 20:38:27 q? 20:38:49 dmarti: and the right to repurpose, eg if your device is not updated you could at least get a web browsing station out of it 20:39:11 ack Ben_Tillyer_ 20:39:21 tzviya8: can't remember if these are in but seem important to include 20:39:27 present+ Ben_Tillyer_ 20:40:05 q? 20:40:08 Ben_Tillyer_: looking from an accessibility perspective, if we were to include a new standard that improves the equity on the web for certain disability groups, but then it also increases power consumption considerably, how do we balance that when we do horizontal review? 20:40:11 ack tnitot 20:40:20 q+ to respond to balance of priorities 20:40:51 tnitot: if we want to hink sustainability properly, we should start with lifecycle assessments, it's not just water or resources or manufacturing, it's all of them, it needs to be cmplete 20:40:55 s/cmplete/complete 20:40:59 q+ to respond to the question about cross-horizontal 20:41:05 s/to hink/to think 20:41:18 q? 20:41:22 tnitot: otherwise you could, say, decide to reduce carbon emission but then waste more water 20:41:23 ack tzviya 20:41:23 tzviya, you wanted to respond to balance of priorities 20:42:05 tzviya8: along those lines, it's going to be about lifecycles and finding the right balance… re Ben_Tillyer_'s question, if you're trying to find the balance between performance and future delivery, I can't answer that question, have to answer what customer wants or CEO wants 20:42:13 tzviya8: maybe it could be you give your users choices 20:42:24 q+ to also attempt an answer at Ben's question per existing set of horizontal reviews that could conflict 20:42:42 tzviya8: can you give users a choice, eg ask users do you want the option that uses less carbon 20:43:27 +1 to getting started 20:43:28 q? 20:43:31 ack addison 20:43:31 addison, you wanted to respond to the question about cross-horizontal 20:43:35 tzviya8: these are hard to measure, just like with accessibility, the checklist isn't going to cover all cases and therefore this isn't something that will be ready quickly 20:43:46 addison: there's got to be a tension. that we'll collectively navigate 20:44:04 addison: some don't want us to finerprint, others want us to have more personalised information 20:44:16 addison: we have to think meaningfully about the tradeoffs 20:44:24 q+ 20:44:28 addison: the more horizontal things we do, the more competing things we'll have too 20:44:32 q? 20:44:36 q- later 20:44:42 addison: challenge for us collectively as W3C, going forward 20:44:43 ack jenstrickland 20:44:55 present+ jenstrickland 20:45:08 jenstrickland: I think we need to remember, there should be informed consent, allow people the choice, as tzviya8 was saying 20:45:30 jenstrickland: because privacy and i18n concerns for historically targeted communities are more life impairing to some 20:45:34 taylore has joined #sustainability 20:45:39 jenstrickland: remember people who are not in the room 20:45:52 vq? 20:45:55 jenstrickland: we are impacting if they can survive or take care of their family 20:45:57 ack tantek 20:45:57 tantek, you wanted to also attempt an answer at Ben's question per existing set of horizontal reviews that could conflict 20:46:17 tantek: we already have 4 areas for horizontal review 20:46:27 tantek: I would offer the best thing we can do there is to be very direct and clear in each area of horizontal review 20:46:46 tantek: don't pre-do that tradeoff 20:47:01 tantek: I think the task of doing that tradeoff rests on the AC 20:47:38 q? 20:47:40 tantek: shouldn't put the burden of responsibility on just one of those groups, we need broader stakeholder involvement to address those kinds of tradeoffs 20:47:44 Thanks 20:47:52 Feel free to consult us in the Equity CG, too. 20:48:14 tantek: the other point jenstrickland makes re inclusivity…  I think we should do most of this work in the CG 20:48:24 tantek: that's currently W3C's most accessible forum for participation 20:49:01 Proposed: develop a draft sustainability checklist in the Sustainability CG 20:49:13 +100 20:49:16 +1 20:49:17 +1 20:49:19 +1 20:49:20 +100 20:49:21 +1 20:49:23 + 20:49:27 +1 20:49:28 +1 20:49:32 +1 20:49:35 Chuck has joined #sustainability 20:49:36 +1 with explicit invitation to Sustainable Web CG team 20:49:40 +1 20:49:40 +1 20:49:56 +1 to Tzviya's addition, too 20:49:58 * note also to invite the Equity CG to provide input. 20:50:03 +1 20:50:21 emeyer has joined #sustainability 20:50:26 present+ 20:50:29 rwarren2 has joined #sustainability 20:50:35 RESOLVED: develop a draft sustainability checklist in the Sustainability CG 20:50:41 q? 20:50:45 +1 20:51:10 tantek: going beyond a checklist/self-questionaire… it's a good start, but not the end 20:51:31 BrianE has joined #Sustainability 20:51:33 q+ 20:51:40 q+ 20:51:50 ack hdv 20:52:12 hdv: Reviewing Specs is one thing, but will we review charters as well? 20:52:16 +1 to the idea of looking at charters 20:52:16 deliverables 20:52:19 +1 20:52:20 ack addison 20:52:49 addison: for us, primary thing is to review requests… there is a breakout later today where the horizontals are… throwing rocks at each other 20:52:54 q? 20:53:02 addison: I wish chairs knew better what to expect and so on 20:53:11 addison: still chasing people to get stuff done 20:53:18 q+ to add to addison 20:53:25 addison: early review and early engagement is still a challenge 20:53:57 addison: WHATWG and CSS are kind of the big ones, I have hundreds of issues open with them 20:53:58 q? 20:54:11 addison: I don't know if sustainability has that level 20:54:43 addison: we're not here to make you eat your vegetables, we're here to help you improve your specs 20:54:49 ack tzviya 20:54:49 tzviya, you wanted to add to addison 20:55:05 Sustainable Web has done a wonderful job of creating that helpful culture. 20:55:34 tzviya8: horizontal review is one of the greatest things at W3C… and there's also many problems with it, we rely on a small number of people to review everything 20:55:54 tzviya8: if I need to review 100s of specs per year it is probably not going to happen, so we have to help people do it themselves too 20:56:15 addison: education is probably more important than checking it later 20:56:17 q+ to ask about parallelizing - in particular is there interest in doing some "practice" sustainability review at the TAG? (tnitot) 20:56:25 ack tzviya 20:56:35 tantek: what tzviya8 brings up re scale and bottlenecks is really important 20:56:57 tantek: getting through a massive queue is where things get stuck and/or burn people out, and that's not sustainable 20:57:10 tantek: I don't want to let perfect be the enemy of good enough 20:57:46 tantek: want to call for ideas re parallelising 20:58:07 tantek: if we develop a self review checklist, would help to have example technologies so that we can try to do some assessments 20:58:24 +1 to iterative approach that rotates between checklist development and experiiments in assessing 20:58:37 present+ 20:59:22 q+ 20:59:23 +1 jgraham: systematic harms vs individual harms 20:59:26 ack tantek 20:59:26 tantek, you wanted to ask about parallelizing - in particular is there interest in doing some "practice" sustainability review at the TAG? (tnitot) 20:59:40 W3C Environmental Impact Statement. 20:59:43 jgraham: it's not clear to me how this actually works in practice, without having done the exercise it is hard to tell, maybe different from a11y, because often with sustainability, the harms are non-local, imagine a user who has this set of circumstances, and if they use this technology it causes harm to them, with sustainability it's more global. So looking at it in practice will help 20:59:45 ack Rach 21:00:33 q+ 21:00:35 Rachael: I agree there are some differences between accessidbility and sustainability, but both have things that need to be addressed… the more you rotate between different data areas, the better it wroks 21:00:38 ack kirkwood 21:01:04 kirkwood: for a little background, I'm an environmental engineer who went into web 21:01:45 q+ to explicitly note contrast between horizontal review harms individual vs systemic or immediate vs only at scale 21:01:55 kirkwood: re environmental impact assessment… I have some past experience with this… I am very interested in the ability to create some impact here… looking at power consumption could work, but tradeoff of information exchange around environmental issues could offset that 21:02:33 q? 21:02:37 tantek: not sure how much you looked at Web Sustainability Guidelines? 21:02:50 kirkwood: yeah people can have a half empty / half full kind of perspective 21:03:17 q? 21:03:20 vq? 21:03:47 tantek: James noted the difference between individual harms and systemic harms as an interesting contrast 21:03:59 q+ to ask about data collection 21:04:08 tantek: there are these kinds of contrasts in a11y and i18n, most of the harms there are noticeable by the individual 21:04:32 tantek: some of them may also be eventual impacts too, if enough websites used a bad technoloy could cause pain over time too 21:04:53 tantek: but with sustainability that indirect impact is much bigger… probably same for security and privacy 21:05:20 q+ 21:05:40 ack tantek 21:05:40 tantek, you wanted to explicitly note contrast between horizontal review harms individual vs systemic or immediate vs only at scale 21:05:41 tantek: things that use a lot of power, eg used to be bitcoin, now training LLMs 21:05:43 ack rigo 21:05:43 rigo, you wanted to ask about data collection 21:06:10 rigo: open question… I worked on the digital product passport, the goal there, within the Green Deal, was to create databases to allow people to make decisions based on being informed 21:06:42 rigo: to be able to make those assesments, the checklist as such is nice but how do you gather data. If the group is starting horizontal reviews, question is how do we gather and organise data, so that it corresponds to our checklist 21:06:42 q- 21:06:52 ack Ben_Tillyer_ 21:07:27 tantek: this has been a really rich discussion so far, it feels like there is momentum for this issue 21:07:46 tantek: are there other project areas, from the sustainability cg efforts that people would like to explore or talk about? can name a few of them if that helps 21:08:00 https://www.w3.org/wiki/Sustainability#Work_Areas 21:08:38 I'm interested in Principles. 21:08:39 q? 21:08:39 tantek: if we take the TAG's ethical web principle re sustainability, how can we expand on that, should we expend on that? 21:08:45 q+ 21:08:46 q+ 21:08:50 ack jenstrickland 21:09:28 jenstrickland: we use something from a policy template where we incorporated a statement of principles, would love to be part of documenting principles 21:09:30 ack tzviya 21:09:52 tzviya8: I am concerned we have two community groups, there is overlapping interests 21:10:12 tzviya8: not sure what happens since last TPAC in this group, would like to see this to have more activity 21:10:20 tzviya8: maybe merging the groups could help 21:10:31 tzviya8: as there is real interest in getting this off the ground 21:10:39 q? 21:11:11 tantek: my quick assessment of that… it's the cooks in the kitchen problem, with so much work to do, eg horizonal review, web sustainability guidelines, there is some amount of division of labour that this could benefit from 21:11:48 tantek: and now we have the IG that is being launched, then we have two CGs and an IGs, could then look at divison of labour better, things scale better if we allow smaller groups of people to work on things, as long as there is very good cross communication 21:12:12 present+ 21:12:45 tantek: one of the chairs of the sustainability cg had to step down, that just left me… I've had a bunch of other project, could benefit from a co-chair if there's someone here who has the ability to drive things, would be happy to share that responsibility 21:12:58 q+ 21:13:38 tantek: if you're interested in co-chairing the CG let us know, CGs work well when there's multiple cochairs 21:13:41 q+ 21:13:42 q+ 21:13:43 q? 21:13:54 ack jenstrickland 21:14:59 jenstrickland: wanted to offer a suggestion… the sustainable web group… they're one of the most finely machines I've ever seen at the W3C… those folks deserve not just blue 3D-printed trophies 21:15:11 jenstrickland: they are getting a lot done 21:15:40 jenstrickland: if we collaborate and then sub groups can take on specific projects 21:15:51 tantek: appreciate the suggestion 21:16:15 tantek: agreed that group is very productive, but came to different conclusion… I don't want to upset their focus and productivity 21:17:23 tantek: this work requires a very active editor 21:17:38 tantek: if we can find someone who has the time that is the key next step 21:17:57 q? 21:18:21 emeyer has left #sustainability 21:18:27 tantek: you can join this channel or the Slack channel for sustainability 21:18:42 addison has left #sustainability 21:18:45 tantek: thanks everyone! And once again if someone wants to cochair sustainability cg and/or edit the self questionnaire, that'd be great! 21:18:57 jenstrickland has left #sustainability 21:19:06 what is the slack channel link? 21:19:22 taylore see https://www.w3.org/wiki/Slack to start 21:19:32 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2024/09/25-sustainability-minutes.html tantek 21:31:36 kenneth has left #sustainability 21:37:07 AramZS has joined #sustainability 21:42:27 rigo has joined #sustainability 21:45:47 tantek has joined #sustainability 21:53:25 tnitot has joined #sustainability 21:58:02 ioana has joined #sustainability 22:01:18 s|https://w3c.github.io/apa/fast/|https://w3c.github.io/fast/| 22:01:37 rrsagent, make minutes 22:01:38 I have made the request to generate https://www.w3.org/2024/09/25-sustainability-minutes.html Daniel 22:55:46 rigo has joined #sustainability 23:01:04 tantek has joined #sustainability 23:03:28 AramZS has joined #sustainability 23:03:42 tnitot has joined #sustainability 23:09:55 tantek has joined #sustainability 23:15:45 rigo has joined #sustainability 23:19:38 kirkwood has joined #sustainability 23:36:18 ioana has joined #sustainability 23:56:55 kirkwood has joined #sustainability