Request for Workstream Participant Invitation status #157
Description
I would like to request Invited Participation status to the WHATWG workstreams.
I've tried but failed to get my employer (ERCIM) to join WHATWG as an organization. ERCIM, as one of the 4 W3C hosts, has significant investment in the field of business technologies. Conversely, as an employee of a W3C hosts, none of my contributions in my W3C work are expected to be covered by non-RF terms.
Based on my work in reffy and associated tools, there are a number of improvements that I have tried pushing in WHATWG specs but where my lack of workstream participant status made difficult. I would like to be in a position to contribute to all WHATWG workstreams without that barrier; if a smaller scope invitation is preferable, I would want to start at least with the HTML spec.