Re: Migration to Google Meet

On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM Harrison <harrison@spokeo.com> wrote:
> While I am stating the obvious, I just want to publicly thank you and your team for your continued support (e.g. money, time, and effort).
On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM Michael Prorock <mprorock@mesur.io> wrote:
> Huge amount of commitment over the years, and I don't think this community would exist without it.

Thank you -- that's very kind of each of you, and I'll pass the kudos
on to the support team at DB. They're the ones also contributing
financing and time to keeping everything running. Every dollar that
goes into the CCG infra is a dollar that they don't see in their take
home pay and every hour spent on the infra is an hour that doesn't go
to another brightly burning corporate fire... but they happily
continue to contribute both.

We would also be remiss not to thank the community for continuing to
show up, innovate, and contribute in a meaningful way. They're
certainly at the top; the community wouldn't exist without its people.

I don't think we've ever said /why/ the infra maintainers continue to
do what they do, so here's an opportunity to do so:

Being able to communicate with each other is at the heart of our
ability to innovate in the CCG and W3C. So, it follows that our
communications and archiving infrastructure is of particular
importance. W3C has known this since the very early days and CCG is
modelled after that open and transparent way of operating.

We want to lower the barrier for contribution as much as possible, and
ensuring the long-term health of our infrastructure, and our ability
to archive our meetings so others can find them, is of great
importance. If we can't efficiently organize, meet, and share our
thinking with current and future members (over very long periods of
time), we limit our learnings to mere tribal knowledge that doesn't
outlive the people involved at the time.

That process is one of the reasons I'm such a strong proponent of the
way W3C (and IETF) operates. The standard establishes what was
decided, but all of the discussion leading up to that standard -- the
recorded rationale over years that led to the standard -- is just as
important as the standard itself. The presentations we do in CCG to
explain why we're building what we're building matter, and if we're
lucky enough to have some of our technology reach global scale, will
matter to future generations of people that try to build on top of the
foundation that we've collectively created.

So that's why some of us have very strong opinions about our meeting
and archival infrastructure -- it's at the heart of what we do here.

-- manu

-- 
Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
https://www.digitalbazaar.com/

Received on Sunday, 23 March 2025 14:39:13 UTC