Community Group for Markdown Standardization
Jelks Cabaniss
jelks at jelks.nu
Wed Nov 21 04:36:39 EST 2012
Paul,
I haven't kept up with the W3C policies in a long time -- do you need a
"patent policy" now to get a Rec? If so, I, and I doubt JG and many,
probably most others on this list would even give a hoot. :)
Jelks
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Karl Dubost <karld at opera.com> wrote:
> Jelks, and others.
> Just a note about W3C community groups.
>
> Le 21 nov. 2012 à 17:20, Jelks Cabaniss a écrit :
> > Secondly, I'm glad to see Markdown even being considered by the W3C for
> standardization.
>
> It is not.
>
> Community Groups are groups that *anyone* can start about a topic related
> to the Web :) You do not need to be a W3C Member, to pay anything, etc. You
> just need to open a public W3C [account][], and be a bunch of motivated and
> open ;) people to discuss about a topic of interests.
>
> W3C gives the platform for free. In the case of Markdown, it means:
>
> * Home page
> http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/
> http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/feed/
> * Archived mailing-lists
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-markdown/
> * A wiki
> http://www.w3.org/community/markdown/wiki/Main_Page
> * An irc channel
> irc://irc.w3.org:6665/#markdown
>
>
> [account]: http://www.w3.org/community/account/request
>
>
> That said if the community group has been successful, published a
> document, etc. There might be interests from the W3C Members to make it on
> W3C Rec track and then go into the patent policy dance, etc.
>
>
> --
> Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
> Developer Relations, Opera Software
>
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