Re: Stepping Down as CCG Co-Chair

Wayne,

Thank you for the year and half of service. You've contributed a lot to the
CCG and I have appreciated having you as a co-chair. I look forward to
seeing your name on github work items and seeing your awesome contributions
to the community.

Wishing you all the best at Spruce and here.

Cheers,

-Heather

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 1:48 PM Mike Prorock <mprorock@mesur.io> wrote:

> Wayne,
> Very sad to see you go, however I am just as excited to see the great work
> that Spruce has been doing for the community continue and expand.
>
> Looking forward to continuing to work with you and the Spruce team on W3C,
> DIF, and CCG items long into the future.
>
> Best of luck as your role in the community evolves!
>
> Mike Prorock
> mesur.io
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 16:44 Wayne Chang <wyc@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I’m really grateful to have served as your co-chair alongside Kim,
>> Heather, and Mike for a year and a half. Over the past few months, my
>> ability to be directly involved as much as I would like to has rapidly
>> dwindled due to my Spruce commitments, which grew far faster than I
>> anticipated. I have discussed this with the co-chairs.
>>
>> Therefore, I think the most responsible thing to do is to step down as
>> co-chair, and I will be relinquishing my position immediately. This will
>> make room for someone better equipped to spend time on CCG leadership to
>> best serve the ecosystem, and I’m happy to share that there have been
>> several candidates who have expressed interest. Regardless of what I have
>> going on outside of CCG, it’s important to me that the ecosystem’s
>> continued growth and wellbeing come first. I think that the ecosystem has
>> been more cohesive than ever, the work items are increasing in quality, and
>> we’re very close to some major breakthroughs towards mainstream adoption.
>>
>> I intend to continue to contribute to the ecosystem, both individually
>> and with Spruce. At Spruce, we have implemented emerging specifications
>> from the CCG in Rust and have demonstrated interoperability with many of
>> the ecosystem members. We have also authored multiple specifications as
>> work items in the CCG, some with potential to introduce millions of users
>> into the DID/VC ecosystem. There are no plans to stop our work, and if
>> anything, we will sharply increase our resourcing to community efforts to
>> ensure that development happens transparently and in the open. By focusing
>> on this way of contributing to the community through work items, and making
>> room for others to step up, I think the community will advance even faster.
>>
>> Thanks everyone for having me as your co-chair, and I look forward to
>> seeing you around the community!
>>
>> Best,
>> - Wayne
>>
>

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