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SHACL Community Group (Post-REC activitities)
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[charter] Charter should be adjusted to be more WG-like than CG-like #76

Open frivoal opened 3 months ago

frivoal commented 3 months ago

Substantial portions of the proposed charter read like those of a CG, rather than those of a WG, and even refer to the group itself as a CG. Sections 7 to 10 of the charter should probably be rewritten, possibly starting from the charter template.

For example:

Specifications created in the Community Group must use the W3C Software and Document License. All other documents produced by the group should use that License where possible.

All GitHub repositories attached to the Community Group must contain a copy of the CONTRIBUTING and LICENSE files.

Meetings may be restricted to Community Group participants

In particular, sections 8, 9, and 10 are not appropriate for a WG: