There is no cost to joining a W3C Community Group, and the Print and Page Layout Community Group welcomes everybody, at all levels of expertise, who wants to join.<\/p>\n
There was a comparatively high number of survey responses<\/a> from people not in the Print and Page Layout Community Group who, nonetheless, think that the Community Group should primarily be about XSL-FO and think that we should develop standards around XSL-FO.\u00a0 I was talking last weekend about people wanting something but not being in the group to do it to another attendee at XML Prague<\/a>, who was of the opinion that some people might think they’re not expert enough to be part of this Community Group.<\/p>\n There’s many factors that say that isn’t so:<\/p>\n Given all that, why are we happy to welcome new members?\u00a0 There’s no pecking order or bragging rights accruing to Community Groups based on membership numbers.\u00a0 The win for the CG is both that it’s easier to turn an inactive member into an active member than turn a non-member into an active member and that it helps everyone if we have a wider range of voices in the conversation.\u00a0 The win for you is that you get to take part in the conversation and influence the direction of the Community Group rather than projecting from the outside that the CG will or should do something: we still might not go the way that you want, but it’s more likely that we will if you take part and work towards the goal that you want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is no cost to joining a W3C Community Group, and the Print and Page Layout Community Group welcomes everybody, at all levels of expertise, who wants to join. There was a comparatively high number of survey responses from people … Continue reading \n