AdvisoryCommittee

The W3C's Advisory Committee (AC) consists of an AC Representative (or AC Rep for short) from each member organization (and optionally an Alternate AC Rep).

Are you looking for information about the elected W3C Advisory Board? See:

AB

Surveys

If you are an AC representative (Member-only link), please regularly (weekly) check for questions/surveys you should answer:

https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/ (other Members have read-only access to this, so they can nudge their AC rep to answer questions)

Charters

Charters in development dashboard

Chat

The Advisory Committee uses the W3C IRC server for chat discussions:

#ac — minutes and discussion of AC meetings, AB Member Meetings
#ac-chat — informal side-discussions
#ac-help — for help of any kind related to W3C
AC members may join these channels on the web: https://irc.w3.org/?channels=ac,ac-chat,ac-help
- An IRC password may be required during meetings, see meeting details for access information

There’s also an informal AC chat channel on the W3C Community Slack:

#ac-plus

Email Lists

w3c-ac-forum@ list — general AC discussion
w3c-ac-members@ list — Team announcements, read-only for AC members

Meetings

The Advisory Committee meets twice annually (either virtual or hybrid face-to-face), and at monthly AB Member Meetings.

Calendar

You may follow or subscribe to the AC calendar in your Calendar application or service here:

https://www.w3.org/groups/other/ac/calendar/

Upcoming

Main article: AC/Meetings#Next_Meetings

Specific upcoming events with more details:

2025-04-07…08 AC Spring Meeting, Sophia Antipolis
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In General

AB-led Member Meetings every third Tuesday (US Eastern Time) of each month, at three distinct hours to accommodate time zones
- 09:00 Eastern / 06:00 Pacific / 13:00(12:00) UTC depending on US(DST)
- 16:00 Eastern / 13:00 Pacific / 20:00(19:00) UTC depending on US(DST)
- 22:00 Eastern / 19:00 Pacific / 26:00(25:00) UTC depending on US(DST)
- On Zoom (see this 2023 February event for ID/pw) and the #ac IRC chat room.
AC Face-to-face Meetings twice a year (Past AC Meetings, see also AC Meeting Value Proposition)
All Upcoming Member Meetings; contains list of upcoming member meetings
Ride Sharing for Meetings — used to facilitate ride sharing (e.g. taxis) for in-person W3C meetings

Past

Main article: AC/Meetings#Past_Meetings

2024-09 AC Plenary meeting at TPAC 2024
2024-04-08…09 AC Spring Meeting
2023-09-12 14:00-17:00 AC meeting at TPAC
- https://www.w3.org/2023/09/12-ac-minutes.html
- Note: TPAC 2023 AC Meeting topics #178 (AB-memberonly GitHub discussion)
2023-05-09…10 AC Spring Meeting

2022 AC meeting at TPAC
- https://www.w3.org/2022/09/13-ac-minutes.html
- https://www.w3.org/2022/09/14-ac-minutes.html
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Resources

W3C Members & Testimonials — public list of current W3C Member Organizations
- Past lists of members available in the Internet Archive since 1998.
Newbie Info - information and links for new AC reps
video: Benefits and Roles of W3C Members
Actions and Issues Tracking
AC Rep Introductions - introductions from AC reps including some we joined the W3C because ... type presentations
W3C Value Proposition - references to various testimonials and resources related to "What is the W3C's value proposition?"
Meetings and Upcoming Meetings
AC Meeting Value Proposition - a list of opinions on the value proposition(s) of attending AC meetings

Calls for AC Rep Input, Feedback and Action

Advisory Board Structure - an initiative to change the Advisory Board structure so that it is more inclusive than a narrow 9-person board.

Events Process - an initiative to improve W3C's events processes (such as Workshops, Meetups, and Conferences) by refining the Problem Statement, defining Use Cases and Requirements, Identifying High Priority issues, etc.

Dashboards - many AC reps would like the W3C Staff to create various dashboards to facilitate internal communication and information sharing. This initiative is focused on refining the Use Cases and Requirements, Identifying the High Priority UCs, etc.

Evaluating Proposals for New Working Groups - this initiative seeks to clarify the processes related to proposals to start new Working Groups

2014 Member Survey - this document is used to gather feedback, suggestions, etc. for a 2014 Member Survey.