Working group is kind of a nebulous term, so you can also think of it as a project or a group. A group of people that working together toward some common goal.
Requesting a working group
Here are two examples of threads that lead towards a working group
If you want to run a working group, here are the rough steps:
- Write a proposal in a new thread, Discussion is a good default category
- Explain who you want to join and what you expect to work on, and
- Recruit at least one other person to help organize the group
- Bonus Round: if this is a standard which involves code, have at least two apps/people/teams that commit to implementing it
Default Setup
Group
We’ll setup a Discourse group for you with a couple of owners and initial members. You can set the group to request invite, you can add / invite additional members as an owner.
The group has private messaging, like a mini mailing list, and it also controls access to categories.
Category
If you want a public OR members only category, we’ll create it for you, and restrict access using the group and/or add the group as members who can publicly moderate posts in that category
Gather Somewhere Else
Or, don’t use the forum at all! Write up a working group suggestion here to recruit, and document where you are meeting – Discord, Signal group, email, etc.
You can see a list of public groups here. You’ll typically need to be logged in to see groups or their members, and we can also do private groups.