Re: Start of Advisory Board Election - Call for Nominations

All,

While my interest has not changed, I do have three concerns:
1. My relative newness.  There are so many things about the W3C that I’m still learning.  I’ve read thru the last 6 months of posted meeting summaries for the AB, which confirmed how much I have to learn!
2. Is this the right time?  The 4 seats up for election (Google, Microsoft, and the representatives of China and Russia) have a lot of gravitas.  Would targeting next year’s election be better? (see https://www.w3.org/Member/Board/ )
3. The travel.  I’m still unclear on the obligations vs. requirements here.
 
-Rick


On 4/3/17, 6:31 AM, "George Kerscher" <kerscher@montana.com> wrote:

    Dear Avneesh and Steering Committee,
    
    Avneesh, thank you for the notification.
    
    PBG Committee, I think we wanted to recommend that Rick Johnson run for this
    position.
    
    Rick, are you good with this? Was there somebody else; I think not?
    Ivan or Bill, should this be self nomination? Should all of our AC reps
    nominate Rick?
    
    Is a bio needed we should point to to help in the promotion?
    
    Best
    George
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Avneesh Singh [mailto:avneesh.sg@gmail.com] 
    Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 4:05 AM
    To: George Kerscher <kerscher@montana.com>
    Subject: Fw: Start of Advisory Board Election - Call for Nominations
    
    Reminder for nominations.
    The steering committee has 4 weeks to decide.
    -----Original Message----- 
    From: Coralie Mercier
    Sent: Monday, April 3, 2017 14:30
    To: W3C Members
    Subject: Start of Advisory Board Election - Call for Nominations
    
    Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
    
    On 30 June 2017, the following four seats on the W3C Advisory Board (AB)
    expire and are up for election:
    
    - Michael Champion (Microsoft)
    - Charles McCathie Nevile (Yandex)
    - Chris Wilson (Google)
    - Judy Zhu (Alibaba)
    
    This is a Call for Nominations for people to stand for election as we
    announced last month [1].
    
    If your organization is interested in participating on the AB, please
    use the following form to nominate (or renominate) one person:
       https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/ab2017/

    
    And ask the nominee to complete this second form:
       https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/abnominee2017/

    
    The deadline for nominations is 23:59, Boston time on 30 April 2017.
    
    All terms are for two years, starting 1 July 2017 and ending 30 June
    2019. Each form includes details about the election, instructions for
    nominating an individual, and links to additional resources.
    
    VOTING MECHANISM: Per the 1 March 2017 Process Document, we will use
    Single Transferable Vote (STV) [2] system for AB and TAG elections as
    described in Section 2.5.2 of the Process Document [3].
    
    PUBLIC NOMINATION STATEMENTS: All nomination statements will be made
    public at the start of the election. Discussion of nominee statements on
    w3c-ac-forum is also customary (see the list policy [4]).
    
    The Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to the Team on issues of
    strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution.
    As the Open Web Platform and W3C expand, now is an opportune time for
    organizations with diverse technology and business interests, in diverse
    geographies, to provide strategic advice.
    
    More information about the AB is available on their home page [5].
    
    This Call for Nominations follows section 2.5.2 of the W3C Process
    Document [3]. For more about election mechanics, see "How to Organize an
    AB or TAG election" [6].
    
    For Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO;
    Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications
    
    [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2017JanMar/0043.html

    [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote

    [3] https://www.w3.org/2017/Process-20170301/#AB-TAG-elections

    [4] https://www.w3.org/2015/10/ac-forum-pol

    [5] http://www.w3.org/Member/Board/

    [6] http://www.w3.org/2002/10/election-howto

    
    --
    Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Marketing & Communications -  https://www.w3.org

    mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 https://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

Received on Monday, 3 April 2017 14:25:12 UTC