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The Advisory Board (AB) provides ongoing guidance to the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. The Advisory Board also serves the Members by tracking issues raised between Advisory Committee meetings, soliciting Member comments on such issues, and proposing actions to resolve these issues. The Advisory Board manages the evolution of the Process Document. As part of a W3C Council, members of the Advisory Board hear and adjudicate on Submission Appeals and Formal Objections.

== Regular activities ==
{{main|AB/Guide#Time_Commitment|AB Guide: Time Commitment}}
Participation on the AB typically takes between 4 and 6 hours a week for native English speakers; for non-native English speakers and people with accessibility needs the time may be more. This is an addition to the 60 minute conference calls held twice a month. This time is typically used for:
* Researching information
* Preparing documents
* Reading documents
* Responding to email discussions
* Commenting on Github issues
* Reviewing changes to the W3C Process
* Working on priority tasks

The [https://github.com/w3c/ab-memberonly Member-visible AB issues repository] shows a lot of the types of topics the AB discusses. See also the [https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/Priorities AB Priorities page].

The members of the AB also sit on the [https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20231103/#council W3C Council], which resolves formal objections.

== Meetings ==
{{main|AB/Guide#Meetings_and_calls|AB Guide: Meetings and calls}}
The AB meets in real-time for 3 days, 4 or 5 times a year. The AB meets for 2 days after the Spring AC meeting, and the rest are hosted by AB members in different locations around the world. AB members are expected to attend these meetings, either remotely or preferably in person.

The AB is responsible for the W3C Process and AB members are encouraged to participate in the Process Community Group (CG), which meets for 60 minutes every other week. Although detailed editing and triage is delegated to the Process CG, all AB members are expected to keep up with its evolution and participate in the reviews and discussions that bubble up to the AB.

== Knowledge and experience ==

As noted above, the AB discusses many different topics. No-one is expected to be an expert in all of them, but AB participants should be able to contribute usefully to discussions on one or more subjects and be prepared to learn about the subjects they are less familiar with. Unlike participating in a working group, where members choose which aspects of the work they engage with, AB members are elected to serve the interests of the consortium as a whole.

== Priority tasks ==
{{main|AB/Priorities|AB Priority Projects}}
Each year the AB identifies a number of priority tasks. These are activities that the AB thinks are particularly important to the W3C at the time.

Each priority task is led by one or more members of the AB, with support from other members. AB members are expected to lead at least one priority task each year and to make sure they have the time and ability to do so.

== See Also ==
* [[AB/Guide]]