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Working Group Attendee Roles

Working Groups across standards bodies have a unique mixture of attendees; some of these attendees will work on specifications, some may work for vendors, some may implement, others may observe. Below is a list of roles Working Group attendees may align to; some attendees will fit multiple of these roles, others may fit none. Most attendees should fit in one to two roles.

This list has been created to aid the Working Group Effectiveness Task Force in understanding how to aid Working Group members in completing the specs detailed in their Working Group charter. By understanding the Working Group attendee roles better solutions can be crerated to help these attendees contribute to shipping a successful specification.

Required

  • WG Chair: the working group chair. Experience in chairing can be helpful to a chair, in this case a chair could be considered a "New Working Group Chair" or "Experienced Working Group Chair".
  • Team Contact: the designated W3C team contact for the working group.
  • Document Editor: the person or one of the people who maintain a specification document. It is likely this inidividual will write majority of the specification content.
  • Implementer Attendee: a working group attendee who both represents an implementer organisation and works on implementing the specifications being worked on within the working group.
  • Web Developer Attendee: a working groups attendee who develops or will develop with the technologies detailed in the specification. This attendee will usually represent an organisation which is not an implementer of the spec.
  • Tester: a working group attendee who understands testing process and is or is able to work on tests for the specifications being worked on within the group.
  • Security Expert: an expert on web security and the security impacts of the specifications being worked on in the working group.
  • Privacy Expert: an expert on privacy on the web and the privacy impacts of the specifications being worked on in the working group.
  • Accessibility Expert: an expert on accessibility on the web and cab give guidance on how the specifications being worked on in the working group can be improved to be accessible.
  • Internationalisation Expert: an expert on internationalisation on the web and the how the specifications being worked on in the working group can improve to be developed with and consumed by as many users around the world as possible.
  • Users: a working group attendee who understands interests of the users of the specification (in this case users means web-users, not developers working with the specification).

Nice to Have

  • Other Attendee: a working group attendee who does not represent an implementer or does not develop with the technologies being specified.
  • AC Member: working group attendee who is also an AC member.
  • Company Attendee: a working group attendee who represents a company which will be impacted or has a direct interest in the development of the technology within the specification or working group charter.
  • Technology Enthusiasts: an attendee who neither works for an implementer or works with the technologies being specified, but is enthused about the working group chartered work and the web generally.

Problematic

  • Blockers: working group attendees who attempt to stop specification work from progressing.
  • Late Arrivers: working group attendees who began participating in the working group late.