Guide

The repository for "The Art of Consensus", W3C's Chair's Guidebook.

HTML rendered version is available at: https://w3c.github.io/Guide/

Documentation on how to participate in W3C WGs is split between multiple wikipages, github repos and emails. This means new members find difficulty in finding information as to how to participate and maybe give up trying. This proposal is a simple extension to one of the W3C sites (w3.org?) where all attendees can discover simple (and easily translated) documentation on how to be an affective W3C attendee.

• Location: /participate
• /participate/process
  • Explanation as to how the standards process works
• /participate/chair
  • Intructions on how to chair WGs including managing meetings, setting up the homepage, maintaining the wiki
• /participate/scribe
  • Instructions on how to scribe
• /participate/meetings
  • Instructions on how to setup and join meetings
• /participate/author
  • Guide on how to author a specification, including ReSpec or other spec making programs
• /participate/contributor
  • Guide on how to contribute to standards
• /participate/github
  • Guide on using github (other tools)
• /participate/irc
  • Instructions on how to setup and use IRC
• /participate/regional
  • Guidance on where to go to receive regional support (e.g. Keio office for Japanese assistance)
• /participate/teamcontact
  • Guidance on the role of the team contact, and what to expect from them.
• /participant/resources
  • Onboarding Information for Group Participants