Socialwg/History

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The first Social Web Working Group was active 2014-07-21 to 2018-02-13.

Please see the current [Socialwg Social Web Working Group] page for current and future activity.

Social Web Working Group 2014-2018

Photo of the W3C Social Web Working Group taken at Face to Face Meeting, 2016-03-16 at MIT.

Announcement 2014-07-21

Charter (closed on 2018-02-13)

Chairs for the duration: Tantek Çelik (Mozilla); Evan Prodromou (e14N)
Staff Contacts during and at close: Amy Guy (W3C/University of Edinburgh); Sandro Hawke (W3C/MIT)

Specifications

Specifications that the Social Web WG has produced.

Document Status

Recommendations

Webmention (Aaron Parecki) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo, Implementations)
Linked Data Notifications (Sarven Capadisli, Amy Guy) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo)
Micropub (Aaron Parecki) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo, Implementations)
Activity Streams Core (James Snell and Evan Prodromou) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo, implementations)
Activity Streams Vocab (James Snell and Evan Prodromou) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo)
WebSub (Julien Genestoux, Aaron Parecki) (Issues, Repo) - formerly PubSubHubbub
ActivityPub (Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon) (Editor's Draft, issues, Repo)

See SocialWG/Usage for live links to updated lists of implementations and usage of our Recommendations.

NOTEs

JF2 (BeBe Roberts, Kevin Marks) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo)
Post Type Discovery (Tantek Çelik) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo)
Social Web Protocols (Amy Guy) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Contains: Guide to all these drafts)
IndieAuth (Aaron Parecki) (Editor's Draft, Issues, Repo)

Invited Expert Approval

To be approved as an invited expert (IE), one or more of the chairs and/or W3C staff contact and/or their management have to vouch for you. They likely have different criteria for vouching, and may or may not document (all of) their criteria publicly. E.g. chairs & staff contacts:

Tantek IE criteria

Tantek Çelik:

For me, an expert on the social web MUST be actively publishing social content on their own website. Merely sharecropping on silos or contributing to open source projects only makes you a hobbyist, not an "expert". -Tantek

Evan IE criteria

Evan Prodromou

For me, an invited expert should be implementing social software, or represent a company implementing social software.