https://github.com/whatwg/sg
A place to raise issues with the WHATWG Steering Group
https://github.com/whatwg/sg
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A place to raise issues with the WHATWG Steering Group
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/whatwg/sg
- Owner: whatwg
- License: other
- Created: 2017-11-15T21:19:52.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-06T15:19:04.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-29T17:06:24.534Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: governance, standards, whatwg
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://whatwg.org/policies
- Size: 161 KB
- Stars: 68
- Watchers: 35
- Forks: 42
- Open Issues: 15
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# The WHATWG Steering Group
The purpose of the [Steering Group](https://whatwg.org/sg-agreement#steering-group) is to govern and
guide the [WHATWG](https://whatwg.org) to be an open, efficient forum for development of Living
Standards and other materials that relate to or support web technologies. It maintains policies and
addresses issues that arise to ensure that the WHATWG develops useful technical specifications, plus
associated documentation, code, and other materials, in a manner that get intellectual property
commitments from contributors and other participants.
## Purpose of this repository
This repository is intended for Steering Group discussion, and also as a record of Steering Group
decisions. The recommended way to make requests to the Steering Group is to file an issue in this
repository.
In addition, this repository holds all WHATWG Policies, and a record of existing Workstreams and
Living Standards.
## Code of conduct
We are committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all. Please read and
respect the [WHATWG Code of Conduct](https://whatwg.org/code-of-conduct).
## Workstreams
The [Living Standards](https://whatwg.org/workstream-policy#living-standard) of the WHATWG are
developed in [Workstreams](https://whatwg.org/workstream-policy#workstream). The Steering Group
maintains the official [list of Workstreams](https://whatwg.org/workstreams) (generated from
[db.json](./db.json)).
## Policies
The founding document of the WHATWG is the
[Steering Group Agreement](https://whatwg.org/sg-agreement).
The Steering Group has adopted the following additional policies:
* [Code of Conduct](https://whatwg.org/code-of-conduct)
* [Contributor and Workstream Participant Agreement](https://participate.whatwg.org/agreement)
* [Principles](https://whatwg.org/principles)
* [Intellectual Property Rights Policy](https://whatwg.org/ipr-policy)
* [Steering Group Policy](https://whatwg.org/sg-policy)
* [Working Mode](https://whatwg.org/working-mode)
* [Workstream Policy](https://whatwg.org/workstream-policy)
(These are maintained as Markdown resources in this repository, except for the Contributor and
Workstream Participant Agreement which is maintained as
[agreement.hbs](https://github.com/whatwg/participate.whatwg.org/commits/main/agreement.hbs) in the
[participate.whatwg.org](https://github.com/whatwg/participate.whatwg.org) repository.)
## Steering Group representatives
* Anne van Kesteren (Apple) [@annevk](https://github.com/annevk)
* Chris Wilson (Google) [@cwilso](https://github.com/cwilso)
* Diego González (Microsoft) [@diekus](https://github.com/diekus)
* Tantek Çelik (Mozilla) [@tantek](https://github.com/tantek) (Alternate: Simon Pieters [@zcorpan](https://github.com/zcorpan))
### Changing a Steering Group representative
* Notify [w3c/whatwg-coord](https://github.com/w3c/whatwg-coord) via a [new issue](https://github.com/w3c/whatwg-coord/issues/new).
* Update Slack, Matrix, calendar invites, and the above list of representatives.
* Get a WHATWG administrator to:
* Update the [sg GitHub team](https://github.com/whatwg/meta/blob/main/GITHUB-TEAMS.md).
* Update the email address.
* The organization that makes the change needs to make sure [`entities.json`](https://github.com/whatwg/participant-data/blob/main/entities.json) in [whatwg/participant-data](https://github.com/whatwg/participant-data) is up-to-date.