- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:28:51 -0600
- To: public-html@w3.org
As I mentioned a while ago*, my W3C position is half time effective the 1st of Feb. I'm happy to let you know that Adobe has agreed to fund the other half of my time for the next 6 months to a year. Specifically, quoting from the contract: "The consultant will be responsible for creating and filling the editor’s position of an HTML 5 Authoring Specification under the aegis of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The intent is to have Adobe provide necessary funding to hire an independent neutral, widely respected, and technically competent editor for this specification, to offload the current editor, Ian Hickson, allowing him (Hickson) to develop a browser implementation specification." I interpret the term "HTML 5 Authoring Specification" pretty broadly; i.e. mostly tutorials and guides. I lean toward test materials as my way of contributing normative materials to this group's deliverables. While I will naturally have more contact with people from Adobe as a result of this contract, they are *not* funding me to represent Adobe's interests in this working group. Regardless, this is clearly a "significant relationship" in terms of W3C's conflict of interest policy**. I hope I have your support in "creating and filling the editor's position"; I haven't been appointed yet. That's up to the chairs***, and I don't expect them to appoint me until I/we have written something that the WG supports publishing. * W3C budget and my availability 24 Oct 2008 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2008Oct/0087.html ** 3.1.1 Conflict of Interest Policy http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/policies.html#coi *** 7.8 General Information about Technical Reports http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#DocumentsGeneral -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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