AB/VisionTF
Summary
The AB is restarting the Vision Task Force (VisionTF) 2024 as part of the AB’s 2024 Vision Priority Project with a new workmode based what was learned during the VisionTF 2023 experiment, and iterating based on ongoing evaluation & feedback by the AB.
In late 2023 the AB resolved to change the chairing/editing of Vision TF & Vision for 2024:
- Vision TF Chair: Chris Wilson
- Vision Editor: Tantek Çelik
Drafts Repository Issues
Goals
- publish an AB-consensus NOTE developed with the community as a first step towards
- create a W3C-endorsed, W3C-wide Vision Statement for the organization
Workmode
The VisionTF workmode is maintained by the chair & editor, building on the what worked in the VisionTF Experiment and best practices from the TAG and BoD.
Who
Who / Task Force Participants:
- work with W3C Members
- participation open to W3C Members, Invited Experts, and Team
- AB approval based, that any Member can ask to join the TF, pending AB approval, and AB will require member to be in good standing, and obeying Process
- Member may ask to join (email ab@w3.org to request joining Vision TF), AB opens an ab-private issue for discussion, if no objections within a week, AB approves (inspired by TAG TF practices for e.g. Privacy Policy TF)
- keep it smaller and more nimble (inspired by BoD TF discussions)
- at most one participant per member org
How
How the Vision TF will do its work
- The TF conducts meetings and publishes minutes in Member-only space to allow participants to speak more freely; but maintains editors' drafts and issue discussion in public, in the AB-public GitHub repo, to allow broader input
- For any open PRs of small edits (editorial or similar)
- Editor and/or Chair check / review (including each by the other), then push async upon approval
- Work Async on issues/PRs by default/prefered
- actively seeking consensus of all Task Force participants, but taking formal decisions by consensus of the AB
- Meeting agendas prepared & prioritized by chair in advance from:
- any other issues with PRs
- issues with specific proposals that are agenda+'d (label or comment)
- issues with "needs input"
- if no agenda is sent 24hrs beforehand (by Chair or Editor), sync meeting is canceled
- AB approves publication of updated drafts, including taking to Note
- AC vote to take it to a Statement
What
What: Content & Issues scope:
- Direct relevance to improving The Vision document
- Not issues for other AB documents
- Not issues for Board scope or Board purpose or other Board documents
- No rewrites. The Vision has been through a number of rough consensus rewrites already and due to diminishing returns the TF is no longer considering large rewrites of the Vision. Please raise individual content issues instead.
- "Note" blockers, issues which participants would object to going to "Note"
- "Statement" blockers, issues which participants would object to going to Statement
- AB members may add labels to help with processing issues
When
When / meeting schedule and milestone goals
- Telcons: 2nd & 4th Thursdays at 14:00 PST
- Milestone 1: Getting to Note (before or soon after Spring 2024 AC)
- Milestone 2: Getting to Statement
- Re-assess maintenance mode after achieving Statement publication
Meeting Agendas Minutes
2024
- First 2024 meeting TBA
2023
| Date | Agenda | Minutes |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-10-26 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-10-26 |
| 2023-10-12 | CANCELED | CANCELED |
| 2023-09-28 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-09-28 |
| 2023-09-12 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-09-12 |
| 2023-08-24 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-08-24 |
| 2023-08-10 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-08-10 |
| 2023-07-13 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-07-13 |
| 2023-06-22 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-06-22 |
| 2023-06-08 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-06-08 |
| 2023-05-25 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-05-25 |
| 2023-05-11 | CANCELED | CANCELED |
| 2023-04-27 | Agenda | Minutes 2023-04-27 |
2023 Vision TF Experiment
On 6 April 2023, the AB resolved to open a temporary Task Force (TF) to work on the Vision:
- Chair: Tzviya Siegman
- Editor: Chris Wilson
- with the ultimate goal of creating a W3C-endorsed, W3C-wide Vision statement for the organization
- with the initial task of publishing an AB-consensus NOTE developed with the community as a first step towards that goal
- with the explicit intention of working with the community in a manner yet to be determined to subsequently revise and elevate this NOTE to a W3C Statement representing a consensus Vision for W3C
- with Task Force participation open to W3C Members, Invited Experts, and Team, actively seeking consensus of all Task Force participants, but taking formal decisions by consensus of the AB
- meeting bi-weekly during the AB slot on weeks the AB does not meet from now until the end of the upcoming AB membership transition
- conducting meetings and publishing minutes in Member-only space to allow participants to speak more freely; but maintaining editors' drafts and issue discussion in public, in the AB-public GitHub repo, to allow broader input
The Task Force was continued as part of the AB’s 2024 Vision Priority Project through October 2023.
2023 Meeting Schedule and Agenda
- Meeting Time: 14:00 UTC
- Meeting Coordinates: W3C Calendar, | Member Visible | Invited-Expert Visible