LIVE REPORT! The #WebRTC#WorkingGroup is meeting in #Stockholm 🇸🇪 today and tomorrow. A major focus is to look at the future of #WebRTC: which use cases it should cover, which new #APIs it should expose, and new ways of interacting with it (e.g. in workers)
Back in 2016, @w3c convened a workshop to look at how #VR and Web could play together, starring the great results of the then-named WebVR Community Group.
Since then, the work has evolved to encompass #AR primitives towards the Immersive Web
w3.org/blog/2018/01/towards-…
Discussions on bringing the #WebXR Device API to the formal standardization track in this draft Immersive Web Working Group charter w3c.github.io/immersive-web-…
.@w3cdevs is here to help understand, document and promote effective ways for #developers to get involved in this next generation of Web technologies.
What has been *your* experience with @w3c? what are the main obstacles you've hit on the way?
In other cases, #CommunityGroups have sometimes created confusion.
But there are already quite a few amazing examples of new features or technologies landing in standardization that way (#ResponsiveImages, #WebAssembly, hopefully soon #WebXR to name a few).
We don't have it all figured out, and we still have a lot to learn.
Some formal standardization Working Groups have been very successful at incubating ideas and bringing developers input to their regular workflows (e.g. @csswg)
More recently, the @w3CAB has been promoting that approach by documenting best practices on identifying standardization-ready specifications w3.org/Guide/standards-track…
A lot of these ideas have been behind @w3c's #CommunityGroup offer w3.org/community/ in general (started back in 2011), and the start of the @wicg in particular (in 2015).
This includes ensuring lots of input and feedback from #developers along the way, and letting innovation bloom in the early design cycles of a technology with less politics, IPR commitments and formalisms.
.@slightlylate offers his and @ChromiumDev views on how to use the standardization and (specifically) the pre-standardization process to successfully bring new features to the Web
Three types of grants: long-term, short-term and one-shot (event participation) contributions. See which related funding applies for chairing a #WorkingGroup, commenting on standard drafts, paying membership fees, etc. standict.eu/OpenCalls/2nd-Op…
Financial support is available for standardization linked with a list of well identified topics, many of which intersect with @w3c's agenda. Check them out: standict.eu/OpenCalls/2nd-Op…
@Stand_ICT exceeding expectations on #ICTstandard applications with a requested budget > 3 times higher than the maximum € availability proving a vibrant #EU community is pursuing further #standards efforts in the @DSMeu Get ready instead for the 2nd launch next week & apply