Re: On finding a Chair for the Human Centric AI Community Group

Hi Timothy,

> On Sep 25, 2023, at 4:45 PM, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Ian & group colleagues,
>   Whilst i welcome group nominees and a consequential vote for this important role,
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> I just added myself as chair again at least for the interim...  
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> Can you also let me know about the teleconf details?  It would be good to try to set up what would be the first community call...  Although attempts were made earlier...

Unfortunately, W3C is no longer providing teleconference services for CGs. When and if you would like a GitHub repo, let me know.

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> I will try to get this done this week.  However, I think it is important to note that I had hoped for more participation via https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-humancentricai/ than has occurred...  
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> This combined with the lack of available budget earlier, has made progress difficult.  per below, it may well be that the situation is about to change, which if so, would be very much welcomed.
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> Nonetheless, it is still my view that the chair for this group; when possible, should be elected by its members.  

Let me know if you have questions,

Ian


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> Note the ISOC update per below;
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> Timothy Holborn.
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> NB: ISOC UPDATE
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> As noted previously, I had thought that it would be beneficial to add support for these initiatives via ISOC.
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> A proposal to establish an ISOC Human Centric AI SIG as been accepted by ISOC and is now up for election (by ISOC members) which i hope will thereby provide a means to discover additional resources, as required advance these works both in relation to W3C activities, and in-turn also on a complimentary basis also via ISOC. Should this be successful the group will be given a small budget to use for webinars, content development, and in-person events; and via the ISOC group can seek external funding or a fiscal sponsor(s) and apply for ISOC Foundation Grants. 
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> Which I think should help to support these works generally, including outputs sought to be achieved via W3C... 
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> IMO: In Solid like ecosystems (thought to be the best available 'backwards compatibility' target); as to support human centric ai agents, there needs to be a means to provide humanitarian supports; for people, who are deplatformed, become homeless, refugees, etc.  this is one of the many considerations, and it is hoped that the works via ISOC will in-turn help to address those challenges, and in-turn act to support the works needed to improve the outputs brought about via this Human Centric AI Group.
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> If recipients are interested; and are not already a member; https://www.internetsociety.org/become-a-member/ 
> Once you have joined, then go to https://connect.internetsociety.org/ and find the community 'open forum', this may be the link: https://connect.internetsociety.org/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=3a9fa082-a518-475d-9e7f-ecec4ffe56dd 
> To allow our community to ask questions and learn more about your topic and plans for continuing topics; There will have three one-hour Open  Houses that will be conducted via Zoom.  Registration for the three dates will be available below.  
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> Open House #1  3 October  2023   1300 UTC
>  Open House #2  11 October   2023 1700 UTC
>  Open House #3  25 October 2023 1100 UTC
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> The Topic vote will be held via SurveyMonkey,  3-17 November, where the top  5  topics will be selected for the 2024-2025 term.
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> Your participation in this process is very much welcomed.  If you are interested in getting involved please reach out and/or join ISOC and let me know your thoughts or perhaps also, consider making a contribution of your own about what you think the future of Human Centric AI should consider & what works are thought to be most important, from your perspective...
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> On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 07:05, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote:
> Dear Human Centric AI Community Group participants,
> 
> Each CG is required to have at least one Chair [1], and we notice that your group does not currently have one.
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> CG participants choose their own chairs. If you are looking for some existing practices for choosing chairs, please see:
> https://w3c.github.io/cg-charter/CGCharter.html#chairs
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> Once you have chosen your chair(s), here are instructions for how to identify the them in the CG infrastructure:
>   https://www.w3.org/community/about/tool/#choose-chair
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> Let me know if you have any questions. Thank you,
> 
> Ian
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> [1] https://www.w3.org/community/about/process/#chairs
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Received on Monday, 25 September 2023 22:27:34 UTC