Open Source Committees
Comments discuss the composition, members, affiliations, and influences in steering committees, boards, and governance bodies of open source projects, standards organizations like W3C and GCC, and related tech groups.
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A committee was involved somewhere.
not surprised, if you see the steering committee members: https://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html
The EFF is run by/employs/takes advice from a lot of people, who probably don't all agree with one another:https://www.eff.org/about/boardhttps://www.eff.org/about/special-counsel
I think you mean that the committee comprises humans.
Perhaps the committee has been infiltrated by the Rust Evangelism Strikeforce?
Somewhere there is a company creating a committee to clarify this.
There are experts working at the commission.
Technically correct, but not useful. Three of the seven members of the committee are employed by Google, and the other four members are each from different companies: https://github.com/ampproject/meta-tsc#members. Plus, it's not clear wether each member has the same amount of "power".
Any group discussion could be "random users" to an outsider. To people at W3C, or even to people who just follow web standards development, the names are pretty instantly recognizable, and presumably since these accounts have been added to the W3C's GitHub org, W3C feels confident that they are who they claim to be.
> You can't "join", there's nobody "in charge"That's not entirely true. Working Group Chairs and Area Directors have significant say in what is adopted.