Would anyone be able to provide a summary of the players and funding for the w3c? My only exposure is the 3p cookie deprecation working group which has had a lot of work being done by companies google/Fb/etc and I assumed they provided some funding to the project managers.
The funding comes from membership fees (based on for-profit status, annual revenue, and World Bank classification of country income of headquarters).
The W3C Staff, who form the bulk of the expenditure of the W3C, have pretty varied roles, from sysadmins in charge of the websites/email lists, to business development (to entice more companies to join and thus provide more funding). There's some degree of project management there, but by and large the project management is fixed by the process document and then left down to the individual groups (where the majority of participation is from representatives of the membership). There are some individuals who are paid directly by the W3C to work on specific technologies/areas (accessibility and internationalisation both come to mind), but not a huge number.
All the above is correct. Additionally, it is important to understand that W3C isn't wholly hosted at MIT. MIT is one of 4 co-hosts (the others being Keio University in Japan, Beihang university in China, and ERCIM in France), though MIT is the central hub of that relationship.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 17.9 ms ] threadThe funding comes from membership fees (based on for-profit status, annual revenue, and World Bank classification of country income of headquarters).
The W3C Staff, who form the bulk of the expenditure of the W3C, have pretty varied roles, from sysadmins in charge of the websites/email lists, to business development (to entice more companies to join and thus provide more funding). There's some degree of project management there, but by and large the project management is fixed by the process document and then left down to the individual groups (where the majority of participation is from representatives of the membership). There are some individuals who are paid directly by the W3C to work on specific technologies/areas (accessibility and internationalisation both come to mind), but not a huge number.