Draft W3C UCM Community Group Charter

[NatachaFernandez]

Suggestions from the members present at 07/17/2026 meeting to be included in the charter:

Charter should define:

• Mission
• Vision
• Scope of work
• Deliverables
• Standards alignment
• Governance
• Participation model
• Decision-making process
• Working process (GitHub-first, issue-driven)
• Relationship to existing standards efforts
• Success criteria

Guiding Principles:

• Collaboration over competition
• Build on existing standards instead of duplicating work
• Person-centered / whole-person care
• Evidence and implementation-driven development
• Transparency
• Community consensus
• Continuous quality improvement
• Shared "North Star" for the Community Group

Charter should answer:

1. Why does this group exist? (Purpose)
2. What problems is it trying to solve? (Scope)
3. What will it produce? (Outputs/Deliverables)
4. How will it work? (Process and participation)
5. What is out of scope? (Boundaries)

Recommendation:
Structure the charter around what we aim to accomplish and what we expect to publish (outputs)

[NatachaFernandez]

I took notes from the discussion and also looked at best practices and used the github copilot to arrive at the above.
W3C meeting transcript:

For consideration in the charter - use of AI authorization.