Re: Looking for a volunteer, to chair of the solid community group

On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 09:38, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks all for the response!
>
> I have promoted Phil and Brandon to chairs, based on the very kind
> volunteering.  Based, on a w3c requirement, we can mozy along happily.
>
> Ruben, unclear if you'd like to, but you are undoubtedly qualified and I'm
> sure I speak for everyone when I say we'd love to have you.  So if you'd
> like to chair, please vote yourself up.
>
> Regarding diversity, negative discrimination in any form I think is
> anathema to any w3c group.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion of mitzi, but as she's not a member of the
> community group, cant be a candidate for chiar, at this time.
>
> Thanks for filling a procedural gap.  It's typical for the chairs to
> describe a policy, and, im pretty confident it would be a good one.
>
> Looking forward to interacting with the group, and possibly finding common
> technical areas, use cases, or possible areas of standardization.
>


Just reviewing the W3C Text

   - When a group has no Chairs, anyone in the group may select one or more
   Chairs by checking boxes next to the name(s) on the participants page.
   - When a group has already chosen its Chair(s), only the Chair(s)
   themselves see the checkboxes. Only Chairs may add or remove Chairs.
   - W3C Staff have access to the administration interface whether or not
   they are participants in the group.

So, this means that Ruben cant upvote himself, but Phil or Dalton should be
able to.  I'll leave you guys to decide who'd like to stay in the role, or
vote people up.  Which I assume should not a be an issue, tho happy to help
if there's any questions.

As long as we have one chair , we can function as a group.


>
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 11:39, "Phil J. Łaszkowicz" <phil@fillip.pro> wrote:
>
>> I second the diversity suggestion by Ruben. I’d also eagerly step back if
>> it provided an opportunity to create a more diverse chair.
>>
>> As far as a relevant introduction:
>>
>> I’ve worked for over 20 years for companies like Microsoft and Oracle on
>> core development technologies, as well as Audi, IBM, and a large number of
>> financial firms on developing a variety of globally scalable solutions.
>>
>> The past 12-years has been increasingly focused on decentralised data and
>> AI, with consumer product focus. Prior to Solid being announced, in 2017, I
>> built a decentralized platform at YCombinator to support collaborative
>> smart contract creation for companies like Lloyds of London, which quickly
>> became a general-purpose decentralized web app platform and ecommerce
>> platform. The current team at that project are now working to make the
>> services Solid-compliant with the goal to contribute as much back as open
>> source code.
>>
>> We’ve been working with the Swift development community (predominantly
>> IBM) to identify how we can push much of what we’re doing back into
>> upstream Swift core code to create a system-level decentralized and open
>> web platform. We have already been working with the Dat Project with Rust,
>> but have refocused that effort into the Solid Swift core. Our project is
>> already in commercial use.
>>
>> On 4 Nov 2018, at 0.13, Ruben Verborgh (UGent-imec) <
>> Ruben.Verborgh@UGent.be> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I don’t mind things either way, however, one important consideration:
>>
>> can we try an additional attempt at having more diversity among the
>> chairs?
>>
>> I don’t mind taking a step back myself to make that happen.
>>
>>
>>
>> Additionally, it would be possible for all candidate chairs to introduce
>> themselves
>>
>> at a bit more length?
>>
>>
>>
>> Here’s me:
>>
>>
>> Ruben Verborgh is a professor of Semantic Web technology at Ghent
>> University – imec and a research affiliate at the Decentralized Information
>> Group at MIT. He’s also a Technology Evangelist at Inrupt for the Solid
>> ecosystem of apps that let you keep your own data. He aims to build a more
>> intelligent generation of clients for a decentralized Web at the
>> intersection of Linked Data and hypermedia-driven Web APIs. Through the
>> creation of Linked Data Fragments, he introduced a new paradigm for query
>> execution at Web-scale. He has co-authored two books on Linked Data, and
>> contributed to more than 250 publications for international conferences and
>> journals on Web-related topics.
>>
>>
>> Website: https://ruben.verborgh.org/
>>
>>
>> For the Solid project:
>>
>> – I have deep knowledge about https://github.com/solid/node-solid-server
>> and do bugfixes
>>
>> – I maintain https://github.com/solid/solid-auth-client
>>
>> – I’ve built https://github.com/solid/react-components and
>> https://github.com/solid/query-ldflex/
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> Ruben
>>
>>