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

It’s definitely time consuming and at least 2 chair people would be preferred based on the CGs I’ve looked at previously.

We will benefit significantly from contributions from some of the Solid engineering & spec team. The chair people will need to have support regardless of who takes the role on, so it’s good to see some of the Solid project team willing to take part in the CG process.

Thanks Dmitri.

> On 30 Oct 2018, at 18.37, Dmitri Zagidulin <dzagidulin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ::facepalms:: My apologies, I take that back. I just talked to some other Chairs of other CGs, and they pointed out that it's a time commitment way over the bandwidth that I have available right now. I withdraw my proposal.
> 
> Adam - thank you so much for your vote of confidence.
> 
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> 
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>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:32 PM Adam Lake <alake@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
>> +1 to Dmitriz as chair. I would be happy to support him in this role. 
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
>> 
>>> On 10/30/2018 12:06 PM, Dmitri Zagidulin wrote:
>>> I would like to propose myself as chair, as well.
>>> 
>>> I was a lead developer for the Solid project at MIT, the author of the WebID-OIDC spec, and am still active in the Solid open source community (as well as some of the           next-generation Solid-compatible efforts for the decentralized web at W3C, such as DIDs and Verifiable Credentials).
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:46 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.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 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
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