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

Who will be expected to chair the community, run in the organisation
established by TimBL, to work on the project now led by TimBL, to form
specs that may be different to TimBL's?

How is that going to work?

My solid based & related work (rww, WebID, verifiable claims. SemWeb, Etc.)
Looks like:
https://www.webizen.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/infosphere_actor_objects.svg.
For instance, as my view is about an international knowledge banking
industry...

But - I have very little idea about how this group would work in defining
new specs.  I can understand the job involved in documenting the extensive
scope of old works, to produce full formed "API like" documentation,

But defining solid from this cg?  Only TimBL can lead it imho.  I think the
group is important, but...

I am happy it's TimBL who is the man who those who want to argue about the
viability or virtues of solid, have to contend with.  It seems far simpler
for the rest of us that way....

Always happy to help good people sleep well at night, but I am not sure who
should lead this group.

Timo




On Wed., 31 Oct. 2018, 12:37 am Oshani Seneviratne, <oshanis@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Tim Holborn,
>
> Thank you for the email.
> I am very excited about the SOLID project and the community. However,
> unfortunately I will not have enough bandwidth to effectively chair this
> community group.
> I am however an ardent supporter of the project, and I have been and will
> be using the concepts from the SOLID spec in my own research.
>
> Thanks,
> Oshani
>
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:37 AM Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Is oshani or better yet, Sandro in the room?
>>
>> Sandro would be a clear pick...
>>
>> On Tue., 30 Oct. 2018, 8:26 pm Dalton Scott, <dalton@jigsaw.xyz> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Melvin,
>>>
>>> I would like to propose myself for chair.
>>>
>>> I am the Solid lead at Jigsaw XYZ, a London startup focused on
>>> empowering people to control their personal data (
>>> https://www.jigsaw.xyz/). We are currently exploring how Solid can be
>>> integrated with financial services.
>>>
>>> As I spend 50% of work week on Solid related projects, I could easily
>>> carve out some more time for this Community Group.
>>>
>>> I am also starting up a London Solid Meetup.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Dalton
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:39 PM Melvin Carvalho <
>>> melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 23:54, "Phil J. Łaszkowicz" <phil@fillip.pro>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +1
>>>>>
>>>>> However… if Tim’s not available, happy to contribute here.
>>>>>
>>>>> My current focus is on developing an open decentralized web platform
>>>>> primarily written in Swift / Rust as a low-level, high performance solution
>>>>> intended to reduce the barrier for entry for non-technical web users, and
>>>>> increase discoverability for decentralized apps.
>>>>>
>>>>> I’m now working on WebID-TLS & WebID-OIDC implementations.
>>>>>
>>>>> Solid aligns well with what I’ve been doing already.
>>>>>
>>>>> I’ve not chaired before: I’ve had minor involvement in some CGs.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Phil, I'd be happy to +1 you as chair
>>>>
>>>> The advice I was given is that having two chairs normally is quite nice.
>>>>
>>>> So I suggest we leave this open for a bit and see if anyone else has
>>>> interest.  If it's only 1-2 people then they could simply fill the slots.
>>>> If there's more we could vote etc.
>>>>
>>>> Then I suggest we can propose items we'd like to explore, or work on.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 24 Oct 2018, at 22.56, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> TimBL is the obvious choice
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu., 25 Oct. 2018, 4:39 am Melvin Carvalho, <
>>>>> melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This group does not have a Chair and thus cannot publish new reports.
>>>>>> Learn how to choose a Chair
>>>>>> <https://www.w3.org/community/about/tool/#choose-chair>.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is on the landing page of this group.  So I think we would be looking
>>>>>> for someone to volunteer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My experience of chairing a CG is that the duties are very light.
>>>>>> You occasionally get a message from W3C about an event - maybe once a year
>>>>>> or so.  And you can then on top of that help out with small items of
>>>>>> running the group.  As we are 50 members, relatively small, the amount of
>>>>>> traffic, should be small I would guess.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Every CG decides a process for choosing a chair.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But often it's just a case of whoever volunteers.  Normally only 1 or
>>>>>> 2 people do.  Or someone will step up if no one has.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In an ideal world, more than one chair makes life a bit easier.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So, does anyone want to chair this group.  Feel free to say a few
>>>>>> words, if you feel like it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If more than one person volunteers, we can have a process, such as a
>>>>>> vote -- which I guess we'll have to work out!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>> Dalton Scott
>>>
>>