Re: Soft Launch of a W3C Invited Expert identity program

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 7:58 PM fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
wrote:

> On 1/10/19 6:16 AM, Tobie Langel wrote:
> >
> >     B) Designated observer at W3C Advisory Committee Meetings
> >     =========================================================
> >
> >     W3C Invited Experts may designate one individual amongst themselves
> (volunteer? elect?) to
> >     attend as an observer the W3C Advisory Committee Meetings [1] which
> take place twice a year.
> >     That non-voting individual represents the interests of W3C Invited
> Experts and is allowed to
> >     summarize and bring back information that is not member-confidential.
> >
> >     To that effect, a straw-man proposal is for the designated Invited
> Expert self-declares to
> >     <ie-contact@w3.org <mailto:ie-contact@w3.org>> who subscribes them
> to w3c-ac-forum [2], the list
> >     for discussion among W3C Advisory Committee Members and the Advisory
> Board on matters of
> >     relevance to W3C.
> >
> >   Will W3C cover the travelling expenses of this IE observer and wave AC
> meeting fees if there are
> > any? Or this another case of expecting IE to self-fund?
>
> Quite frankly, if W3C has any funding to cover IE travelling
> expenses, I'd rather they used it for technical groups, not
> for this.
>

Yeah, I don't disagree. Attending the AC has very little value—which is why
I was so surprised Fronteers felt like it was worth a time and pecuniary
investment.

--tobie