The purpose of the Steering Group is to govern and guide the WHATWG 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.

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.

We are committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all. Please read and respect the WHATWG Code of Conduct.

The Living Standards of the WHATWG are developed in Workstreams. The Steering Group maintains the official list of Workstreams (generated from db.json).

The founding document of the WHATWG is the Steering Group Agreement.

The Steering Group has adopted the following additional policies:

• Code of Conduct
• Contributor and Workstream Participant Agreement
• Principles
• Intellectual Property Rights Policy
• Steering Group Policy
• Working Mode
• 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 in the participate.whatwg.org repository.)

• Anne van Kesteren (Apple) @annevk
• Ben Mathwig (Microsoft) @bmathwig
• Chris Wilson (Google) @cwilso
• Tantek Çelik (Mozilla) @tantek

• Notify w3c/whatwg-coord via a new issue.
• Update Slack, Matrix, calendar invites, and the above list of representatives.
• Get a WHATWG administrator to:
  • Update the sg GitHub team.
  • Update the email address.
• The organization that makes the change needs to make sure entities.json in whatwg/participant-data is up-to-date.