Re: Alastair Campbell appointed co-chair of AG WG

Michael Gower wrote:
> Congratulations, Alastair! Your combination of technical knowledge, 
> thoroughness and calm assurance is an asset to the group.
+1. Great to have you on board Alastair :-)

Josh
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> From: Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
> To: AG WG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Date: 2018-02-27 04:43 AM
> Subject: Alastair Campbell appointed co-chair of AG WG
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> It has just been announced to the Advisory Committee and chairs that
> Alastair Campbell has been appointed co-chair of the Accessibility
> Guidelines Working Group. He joins Andrew and Josh in the role, and will
> help expand chairing capacity to manage the huge amount of work we have.
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> Many people in the Working Group have come to value Alastair for his
> ability to understand complex issues deeply, and to communicate his
> insights clearly. He has recently been working with the Cognitive and
> Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force to help them address
> feedback from the Working Group, and to help represent their knowledge
> to the WG. His appointment as chair will increase that particular
> liaison, and will help the chairs collectively to interface with the
> task forces more. He will help manage the process of completing WCAG
> 2.1, and have a role as we all decide what follows the WCAG 2.1 work.
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> We believe the AG WG has become busy enough and large enough that three
> chairs are now needed, so am glad Alastair was able to take that on.
> With more chairs, there is likely to be more specialization of their
> roles, which will evolve over the upcoming months. For now, I hope you
> all will join me in congratulating him on this appointment.
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> There is time on today's agenda for people to share thoughts or ask
> questions related to this. By the way, chairs are normally too busy with
> chairing tasks to scribe calls, so this does mean we lose one of our
> permascribes. Please, everybody else pitch in to help out!
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> Michael
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