For those who would like to follow us elsewhere, we are @w3c on #Mastodon

We are extremely proud of the work accomplished at #W3C in the Social Web group, culminating in 2018 in the release of the #ActivityPub standard, a notable implementation of which is... #mastodon !
We are also humbled and inspired by the energy that we are seeing on the Fediverse, the good will, how constructive and helpful discourse embodies truly social interactions.
#gratitude

shout out to the enablers: @evan @cwebber @rhiaro @erincandescent @tsyesika @Annbass @lehors

We are starting to get questions about new social needs, or where the community of social web standard makers are.

They gathered in the Social Web Incubator community group a few years back.

https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

(Unlike formally chartered work group, community groups are public, most are run by the community itself, and they are open to all like-minded individuals.)

Ooh, they are on the Fediverse too!

Shout out to the other co-chair of the Social Web working group @tantek.com , and the co-chair of the Social Web incubator community group and contributor to several Social Web specs spec @aaronpk !

Everyone who directly contributed to #ActivityPub are listed in the acknowledgements of the standard: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#acknowledgements

#introduction

Hello! 👋

We are a non-profit international community where since 1994 our Members, staff and the public design and develop standards for the underlying protocols of the web.

Our focus: interoperability, security, privacy, web accessibility, internationalization.

With your help and our proven standards process based on fairness, openness, royalty-free, we make the Web work, for everyone.

We regularly publish highlights from our many work groups.

https://www.w3.org/Consortium/highlights/