Re: Boeing resignations (hopefully temporary for me)

On 30 September 2015 at 17:17, Bassetti, Ann <ann.bassetti@boeing.com>
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> Actually, an Invited Expert can be a Chair.... so, come ahead, Larry! (or
> anyone else?)  I'd love to have a co-chair!  -- Ann
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Hi I dialed in to webex meeting number:

641 665 287

But perhaps I missed you ...


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> *From:* Larry Hawes [mailto:larry@dowbrook.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 30, 2015 5:41 AM
> *To:* Bassetti, Ann
> *Cc:* Social Web Working Group; public-social-interest@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: Boeing resignations (hopefully temporary for me)
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> Ann,
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> This is awful news for the group, even if your absence will be temporary
> and relatively short. I too hope Sandro will step up and chair the IG (I'm
> not a full W3C member and, thus, ineligible to do so). We'll miss you and
> hope to have you involved again in three months. Be well until then.
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> ---- On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 16:53:58 -0400 *Ann Bassetti
> <ann.bassetti@boeing.com <ann.bassetti@boeing.com>>* wrote ----
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> Hello Social Web WG and IG folks –
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> I'm writing to let you know my status for the next few months...
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> As some of you know, I am the Boeing representative to the W3C. I am sad
> to report that I have not been able to nail down the funding (due on Sept.
> 30th) for our continued membership.  Thus, day after tomorrow, I must
> resign all Boeing participants from their respective Working Groups.  This
> will included dropping me, Adam Boyet and Mark Bryant from the Social Web
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> Once Boeing drops the membership, no one who is a member may apply to be a
> W3C Invited Expert.  (This is per the W3C Process, which is very clear on
> that point. Logically, they don't want companies to 'cheat' on their
> membership fees by putting people into groups as IEs.)
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> Personally, I hope to continue with the W3C in some new role after I leave
> Boeing – as yet, unclear what. For me there is a 3-month awkward phase. In
> this time when I am still a Boeing employee, but the company is not a
> member, I may not be an Invited Expert. When I am officially gone from
> Boeing, I expect to request Invited Expert status.  I hope Sandro will
> chair the Social Web Interest Group for the next 3 months, and then I hope
> to pick it up again in my 'new' life. Maybe he'll figure out how to
> reinvigorate the group while I'm gone!
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> Since it only occurs once/year, I am going to the TPAC in October  –
> self-funded, using up my vacation time, and as a 'free agent'.  (To
> formalize my attendance, I'll be there as an invited guest of Jeff Jaffe
> (W3C CEO).) Although we are not having a formal F2F meeting of the Social
> WG/IG, I hope to hold a session on this topic, as well as consult with
> others  on what we're doing, what they want from "social", and why don't
> they participate? I hope Tantek, Amy, Arnaud, (anyone else attending TPAC?)
> will want to share hosting such a session. (It would be interesting to hear
> any questions you have, or messages you'd like passed along!)
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> So – have good meetings for the next 3 months. I look forward to
> reconnecting in early 2016.
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>   -- Ann
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> Ann Bassetti
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> The Boeing Company
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