Revised Community Group charter – request for feedback

Since our group’s priorities have become clearer over the past couple of months, the co-chairs have been working on revisions to the group’s charter in order to reflect the group’s current set of priorities.

The main proposed changes to the charter are as follows:

• Update the timeline for the releases of MusicXML 3.1 and SMuFL 1.2
• Explicitly identify the MNX container format, CWMNX and GMNX representation formats as the main deliverables of the group’s work
• Propose that the initial versions of these three formats should be published by the end of 2018
• Defines the development of test suites to support MNX, CWMNX and GMNX, and the development of software to aid in the conversion of MusicXML documents to CWMNX documents.

Please read the revised charter here.

The procedure for changing a community group’s charter is that the revisions are proposed to the members of the group, who then have a period of 30 days to vote whether to accept or reject the revisions. Before we embark on the formal voting process, we would like to invite comments and feedback from members of the group.

The co-chairs propose that we have a period of two weeks for gathering feedback on the charter, and we ask that all feedback should be posted to the public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org mailing list before Monday 3 July. On or after Monday 3 July, the co-chairs will announce the formal start of the vote for the approval of the new charter.

Thank you in advance for taking the time to review the proposed changes to the charter. The co-chairs look forward to hearing your feedback.