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Social Web Incubator Community Group

The Social Web Incubator Community Group (also known as SocialCG, or SWICG) is the successor of the Social Web Working Group, which ran from 2014 to 2017. The SocialCG provides space to collaborate and coordinate for implementors who are building on any of the specifications published by the Social Web WG, and related technologies. It is also a place to incubate new proposals which build on or complement the Social Web WG recommendations.

Discussions and meeting announcements happen on the SocialHub forum or on project-specific version control repositories.

Meetings are not always weekly, but can be requested or convened by any member of the group. If you have a specific item to discuss, please contact a chair if you need help with meeting logistics, and make a post on the SocialHub forum, ideally with two or more weeks notice.

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Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time

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Process for Including Extensions in Activity Streams 2.0

Chairs, when logged in, may publish draft and final reports. Please see report requirements.

Publish Reports

W3C CCG (Credentials Community Group) + SocialWebCG Crossover Call

Please join us in conversation with the W3C Credentials Community Group, as we discuss the SocialWeb CG, decentralized identity, digital signatures, and give updates about what we’ve been working on, in swicg.

Time: Tuesday 2024-02-13 at 9am PT, 12pm ET, 5pm GMT, 6pm CET Time for 55 min https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20231107T170000&p1=tz_pt&p2=tz_et&p3=tz_cet&p4=tz_gmt&p5=tz_nzdt&p6=tz_nzst

Jitsi Teleconf:
https://meet.w3c-ccg.org/weekly

Voice:
US phone: tel:+1.602.932.2243;1

https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/828f73cb-9eee-4e3e-8864-4c9a79a278f6/

SocialWeb CG Community Meeting 2024-01-12

Our next general SWICG meeting will be on Friday, Jan 12. (We’re going to try out a slightly later time slot on Fridays).

Rough Agenda:

  1. Introductions (optional) and community announcements
  2. IP Protection Note Reminder:
    a. Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any CG Work Items must be members of the CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join
    b. To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/
  3. Update on ActivityPub Editors Draft
  4. (Proposed agenda item from Evan) Documentation Reports on: AP + WebFinger and AP+HTTP Signatures.
  5. Continue the discussion of the proposed Extensions policy (https://w3c.github.io/activitystreams/draft-extensions-policy.html)

The call will be held at 1pm ET / 10am PT / 7pm CET, at:

https://meet.jit.si/social-web-cg

SocialWeb CG Community Meeting 2023-12-15

Our next general SWICG meeting is on Fri, Dec 15, 2023.

Rough Agenda:

1. Introductions (optional) and community announcements
2. IP Protection Note Reminder:
     a. Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any CG Work Items must be members of the CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join
     b. To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/
3. A few words on the Joint SolidCG/SocialWeb CG call this week (call minutes over at https://github.com/solid/specification/blob/main/meetings/2023-12-05.md )
4. Continue the discussion of the proposed Extensions policy (https://w3c.github.io/activitystreams/draft-extensions-policy.html)
5. Issue processing as time allows (spec issues marked as “need group input”)

The call will be held at 10am ET / 7am PT / 4pm CET, at:

https://meet.jit.si/social-web-cg

Thank you.

SWICG Special Topic Call (Nov : AP/AS2 Errata Issues

Hi everyone,

The next SWICG special topic call will be held Friday November 17, 2023, where the editors would like to gather community input on the various AP/AS2 issues marked with the Needs Group Input/Decision tag.

The call will be held at 9am ET / 6am PT / 3pm CET, at:

https://meet.jit.si/social-web-cg

Rough agenda:

  1. IP Protection Note Reminder:
    a. Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any CG Work Items must be members of the CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join
    b. To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/
  2. ActivityPub Errata issues
  3. ActivityStreams2 Errata issues

As usual, please feel free to join the discussion directly on the issues, on Github.

October 6th Meeting and Calls for WG Scope Contributions

Hello everyone,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the discussions pertaining to a prospective Working Group (WG). We have two announcements:

  1. Our next community meeting, and;
  2. An invitation to collaborate on scope for a prospective WG on the W3C wiki.

October 6th Meeting

We are scheduling a Community Group meeting for Friday, October 6th.

The meeting will be at 11am ET / 4pm UK / 8am PT, and hosted at https://meet.jit.si/social-web-cg.

The rough agenda for the meeting is as follows:

  • Introductions (optional) and community announcements.
  • IP Protection Note Reminder: (a) Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any CG Work Items must be members of the CG with full IPR agreements signed, and (b); To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
  • Discussion on a formal decision making process for the group, following on from community discussion.
  • A discussion on scope for a prospective WG, following on from our previous CG meeting, discussions on the mailing list, and contributions to the wiki (see below for more information).
  • Any other business.

Call to Contribute to Prospective WG Scope

The Chairs have created a new page on the W3C wiki to discuss the scope of a prospective WG: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/WG_Charter_Discussion.

The wiki page is open to all CG members. You can log in with the same username and password you use for your W3C account. Please let the Chairs know via a private email if login doesn’t work so we can assist you directly.

WGs have the ability to create technical documents for consideration on the W3C Standards Track and to amend existing W3C Recommendations. The Chairs have created a “Deliverables” section in which we invite you to list any deliverables that you think are appropriate to include in a WG.

If you have further notes or comments about the WG Charter discussion, please leave them on the page so that we can aggregate as much information as possible in one place.

Thanks,

The Chairs

FAQs and Meeting Chat for Social CG Meeting

Social CG FAQs

The Chairs have prepared an FAQ with answers to common questions with regard to the Social CG and the working group system at the W3C. This FAQ answers questions such as:

  • Can the Social CG amend existing social web standards from the former WG?
  • Can the Social CG produce standards?
  • How does the W3C, the Social CG, and Social WG relate to ActivityPub?

If you have feedback about the FAQs, please join #social on irc.w3.org and share your feedback.

IRC Chat

During Social CG meetings, we take notes in IRC. We also use IRC to record when participants have questions to ask during the call. Meeting notes are archived on the W3C website for later reference. A link to the meeting notes will be available shortly after the meeting concludes.

You can join the meeting chat by connecting to irc.w3.org on IRC and joining the #social channel. You can also join directly from the irc.w3.org website. If you join using the website, you will need to choose a nickname. In the Channels form, set the value #social.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

SWICG Community Meeting on September 22nd

The Social Web Community Group met on September 12th in a hybrid W3C TPAC session, and in subsequent sessions on September 13th concerning ActivityPub test suite development and data portability.

We have scheduled a meeting for Friday, September 22nd to follow on from discussions during the meetings held at TPAC.

The meeting will be at 9am ET / 2pm UK / 6am PT, and hosted at https://meet.jit.si/social-web-cg.

The rough agenda for the meeting is as follows:

- Introductions (optional) and community announcements
- IP Protection Note Reminder: (a) Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any CG Work Items must be members of the CG with full IPR agreements signed, and (b); To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
- A discussion on rechartering a W3C Social Web Working Group (WG), and whether there is broad community interest in doing so.
- Discussion to start a data portability task force that would focus on social web data portability (particularly with regard to ActivityPub), and the scope thereof (if time allows, otherwise this will be pushed to the next meeting).
- Any other business.

All interested Community Group members are encouraged to attend the meeting. During the call, minutes will be taken by the appointed scribe and distributed after the meeting, as usual.

If you have any other business to propose, please contact the Chairs.

If you would like to review the meeting notes from TPAC, you can do so from the following links:

- SWICG group meeting: https://www.w3.org/2023/09/12-social-minutes.html
- Data portability meeting: https://www.w3.org/2023/09/13-social-minutes.html
- Test suite meeting: https://www.w3.org/2023/09/13-socialweb-test-suite-minutes.html 

Thank you,
The Chairs

This note was originally posted on the mailing list but not propagated up here. The Chairs apologize for the delay in posting here. Edits have been made per feedback from the community.

SocialWeb CG hybrid meeting during TPAC 2023

Dear all,

SocialWeb CG is planning a hybrid (in-person plus remote) group meeting during TPAC 2023 (the major W3C yearly technical conference) in Seville, Spain.

The meeting will be on Tuesday, Sept 12 at 9:30am-11:00am CEST (local Seville time) / 3:30am-5:00am EDT / 12:30am-2:00am PDT.

Meeting info: https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/5aafc3e5-aac6-49f8-bcc4-3afd7fb00ce6/

(Stay tuned for the exact room number and call-in details).

Special Topic Call – ActivityPub Interop Test Suite

Hi everyone,

There has been a significant amount of conversation, activity, and demand, regarding an interoperability test suite for ActivityPub (and related specs), to help new implementations and interop with existing ones. This includes several new in-progress test suites, as well as a fediverse Group for test related posts over at https://venera.social/profile/activitypubtestsuite

The SocialWeb Community Group is hosting a Special Topic call on AP Interop Test Suite implementations, to introduce existing suites, and to discuss challenges, pain points and next steps, on Friday, August 11, at 12pm Eastern / 9am Pacific / 6pm CET, at:

https://meet.jit.si/social-web-cg

Agenda:

  1. Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct Reminder: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/cepc/
  2. W3C Community Group Process and Governance: https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/
  3. IP Protection Note: a. Anyone can participate in these calls. However, all substantive contributors to any CG Work Items must be members of the CG with full IPR agreements signed. https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/join b. To contribute to Work Items: ensure you have a W3 account: https://www.w3.org/accounts/request, and sign the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA): https://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/
  4. ActivityPub Test Suite Discussion
    • (5-10 min) Presentation by Johannes Ernst on testing approaches
    • (5-10 min) Presentation by Bengo about in-progress test suite and data set
    • (5-10 min) Presentation by Helge on in-progress test suite and https://bovine.social/testing.html resource
    • (5-10 min) Presentation/demo by Darius Kazemi on https://tinysubversions.com/notes/activitypub-tool/
    • (remaining time) Discussion and next steps

Thank you,

The Chairs