This page contains documents that may be useful as templates.

The purpose of a meeting report is to summarise for those who were not there and may not even be involved in the subgroup what happened at the meeting.  It is not just a copy of the minutes but a summary of the motivation for the meeting and the outcomes. A template is available for writing meeting reports. Completed meeting reports should be uploaded to the TDWG website to the directory call meeting_reports.

Charters are documents that govern the operation of TDWG's Interest and Task Groups (see Process). All TDWG groups require a charter to be written by the Convener and submitted to TDWG Charters (a process track using OJS) for review by the Executive Committee. 

Help is available on submitting a Charter.

The following templates are available-

• Interest Group Charter
• Task Group Charter

At the annual conference, Conveners of Interest Groups and Task Groups are expected to present either or both (depending on the meeting schedule)

• A summary of the groups activities over the past year and
• A summary of the conclusions reached during the annual conference

These presentations MUST fit on one slide using the layout and formatting in these templates. Presentations are expected to take 5 minutes maximum.

Standards are technical documents and often difficult to understand when read in isolation. It is therefore important to have a document, a primer, that gives a introductory overview of a particular standard. For managers and those not involved in the actual implementation of a standard the primer may be all that they need to read. For technicians and implementers the primer acts as introductory material to the standard itself. A template is provided to help primer authors include the relevant information and follow a uniform style. You can download the template here.