WECG at TPAC 2022

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This is a meta issue to track the WebExtension Community Group's involvement with TPAC 2022.

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Overview

TPAC (also known as "Annual W3C Conference") is an annual, unconference-style event hosted by the W3C. TPAC 2022 will be a hybrid event (both in-person and virtual). Participants must follow the W3C's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

Registration fees are required in order to help offset the cost of the event, but the W3C provides resources to minimize the effect of cost as a barrier to participate. Registration will open at the end of June.

The registration page also advises "people to confirm their meeting registration and payment before making flight arrangements." Building on that, I would also recommend reviewing the Health rules on Canada's requirements and the on-site W3C Rules before making any purchases.

Key info

Title	Details
Dates	Monday, September 12 – Friday, September 16
Venues	- Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre in Vancouver, Canada - Hub in China (location TBD)
Links	- Registration - Health rules - Schedule - Venue, accommodations, and transport

Tentative schedule

This information was copied from the TPAC Schedule on 2022-06-23. Please visit that page for the latest information.

Day	Events
Monday	08:00–18:00 Group meetings; Ethical workshop 18:00–19:00 Welcome reception
Tuesday	07:00–18:00 Group meetings From 18:00 Developer meetup
Wednesday	08:00–18:00 Group meetings; W3C community meetings; Breakout sessions; plenary 18:30–21:00 Technical-plenary reception
Thursday	08:00–18:00 Group meetings; Ethical workshop
Friday	08:00–18:00 Group meetings

See the Participation policies and recommendations page for guidance on requirements to attend the different types of meetings.

W3C recommendations

The goal of Group meetings during a W3C TPAC is to gather the community together, to create momentum and collective brainstorming around challenges faced by the Web. … The benefit of assembling the community for thought-provoking discussions is invaluable.

— On TPAC Group and Joint-Group Meetings

The page offers a number of suggestions for how groups should approach engaging with TPAC. To reframe the guidance in that article a little, there are three main ways that the article recommends engaging with TPAC:

1. Review the state of our group.
2. Schedule Joint Meetings to advance common interests.
3. Use Breakouts for topics of general interest.

The TPAC 2022 wiki page page also suggests:

1. Recording a 2-3 minute demo or group update video.
2. Joining the developer meetup on Tuesday, September 13.

[Rob--W]

We have an assigned meeting slot on the schedule of TPAC 2022,
on Thursday, September 15th, 13:30 - 15:30 (local time in Vancouver, CA).
Calendar item: https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/7bbba4a3-8305-45cd-a998-67ede8b0a1a1

Note that earlier on that day (8:00 - 9:00 local time in Vancouver), we already have a regularly scheduled WECG meeting (the biweekly one).

Our meeting time at TPAC overlaps with the Browser Testing and Tools Working Group meeting, but they have another one on Friday. It may be worth trying to make progress on #19, since both of our groups are present in person.

Any other topic suggestions?

[dotproto]

During today's session I asked the group to share thoughts on groups we should try to work with or specific topics we want to cover in our session.

Timothy

• Service workers WG
• Web app manifest (Web Applications WG) - there's a lot of overlap between the web app manifest and extension manifest

Carlos

• CSS WG - how browsers should approach sizing websites that set their own size (popup windows,

Rob

• Browser Tools and Testing WG (comment)
• User script managers
• DNR/Web Request

Simeon

• Achieving stated goals in the charter (specifying a common platform)

[Rob--W]

Maybe WebAuthn? #238

The Web Authentication CG is also at TPAC - https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/9bb8b8cb-26ac-4258-b409-110809e505b4

May be useful to sync up with them to see how extensions can/should fit in here.

[timcappalli]

@Rob--W , @dotproto
I will be at TPAC and definitely would love to talk about #238

[dotproto]

Today I'm working on the agenda in this doc. At the time of posting this message, anyone can add comments or suggestions to the doc. I'm planning to make this view only after TPAC.

[Rob--W]

TPAC 2022 has completed; the agenda referenced above was copied to the meeting notes at https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/_minutes/2022-09-15-wecg-tpac.md

(not to be confused with the meeting a few hours before, at https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/blob/main/_minutes/2022-09-15-wecg.md )

I and @timcappalli haven't managed to chat about WebAuthn, but we can try to cover that async.