Re: Picking a Community Group Chair

On 22 Sep 2011, at 4:48 AM, Michiel de Jong wrote:

> ah thanks, i was looking for that link. i saw "this group has no chairs" and tried to click on it, but it wasn't clickable. thanks for posting the link.

Interesting feedback. I'll make that a link to an explanation.

> 
> I voted for Jan, and i think that was interpreted by the system as a proposal rather than a one-person vote. i think the vote should be announced on http://groups.google.com/group/unhosted which is the current forum for this group as a community. then people should get a chance to join and vote. say 7 days. it would also be good if some more people would join our group. there are over 300 people in the google mailing list - for the wg to be moderately representative i would say we need at least 10% of those people to also register here. but i think once we publish our standard through this wg, that will pick up quickly.

The checkboxes aren't for voting; they simply assign one or more people as chair(s). The group needs to establish its own process for picking chairs (e.g., voting).

I'll make sure the documentation says this.

Ian

> 
> anyway, thanks a lot for the heads-up!
> 
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I noticed the Unhosted Web Community Group does not yet have a Chair. I recommend that you reach an agreement soon on one or more Chairs.
> 
> The group selects its own Chair(s) on the Participants page:
>  http://www.w3.org/community/unhosted/participants
> 
> 1) Log in
> 2) There are checkboxes
> 3) Pick your chair(s)
> 4) Submit
> 
> More information here:
>  http://www.w3.org/community/about/tool/
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions,
> 
> Ian
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