Re: Forced Resignation

On 30 June 2014 14:50, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> As you may know, Google recently had the good sense and taste to hire
> fellow TAG member Dominic Denicola. W3C rules insist that, despite being *individually
> elected* as representatives of the membership, our employment situation
> is more important to the membership than our capacity to make meaningful
> contributions at the TAG. Therefore one of us must resign.
>
> As my term ends soonest, I will be stepping down from my position so that
> Dominic can continue the good work of helping to encourage extensibility in
> the web platform. I will, however, continue to attend meetings through the
> end of my elected term (Jan '15) in protest of what, frankly, is
> appallingly poor organizational design. Evidence of this piles up: last
> year we also lost productive TAG members to vagaries of employment
> interaction with W3C policy.
>
> If the AB's goal with this misbegotten policy were to prevent multiple
> individuals from a firm from influencing the TAG's decisions, I invite them
> to bar me from meetings post my removal. Were it not so, I invite them to
> change the policy.
>

As a bystander that is interested in the ongoing work of the TAG It was
unclear to me which policy change you are in favour of

Do you think a w3c member organization should have 2 seats on the TAG
*indefinitely* or *until one term ends*

Thanks for your contributions, I follow your work


>
> Regards
>