Re: Looking for a volunteer, to chair of the solid community group

Thanks all for the response!

I have promoted Phil and Brandon to chairs, based on the very kind
volunteering.  Based, on a w3c requirement, we can mozy along happily.

Ruben, unclear if you'd like to, but you are undoubtedly qualified and I'm
sure I speak for everyone when I say we'd love to have you.  So if you'd
like to chair, please vote yourself up.

Regarding diversity, negative discrimination in any form I think is
anathema to any w3c group.

Thanks for the suggestion of mitzi, but as she's not a member of the
community group, cant be a candidate for chiar, at this time.

Thanks for filling a procedural gap.  It's typical for the chairs to
describe a policy, and, im pretty confident it would be a good one.

Looking forward to interacting with the group, and possibly finding common
technical areas, use cases, or possible areas of standardization.

On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 11:39, "Phil J. Łaszkowicz" <phil@fillip.pro> wrote:

> I second the diversity suggestion by Ruben. I’d also eagerly step back if
> it provided an opportunity to create a more diverse chair.
>
> As far as a relevant introduction:
>
> I’ve worked for over 20 years for companies like Microsoft and Oracle on
> core development technologies, as well as Audi, IBM, and a large number of
> financial firms on developing a variety of globally scalable solutions.
>
> The past 12-years has been increasingly focused on decentralised data and
> AI, with consumer product focus. Prior to Solid being announced, in 2017, I
> built a decentralized platform at YCombinator to support collaborative
> smart contract creation for companies like Lloyds of London, which quickly
> became a general-purpose decentralized web app platform and ecommerce
> platform. The current team at that project are now working to make the
> services Solid-compliant with the goal to contribute as much back as open
> source code.
>
> We’ve been working with the Swift development community (predominantly
> IBM) to identify how we can push much of what we’re doing back into
> upstream Swift core code to create a system-level decentralized and open
> web platform. We have already been working with the Dat Project with Rust,
> but have refocused that effort into the Solid Swift core. Our project is
> already in commercial use.
>
> On 4 Nov 2018, at 0.13, Ruben Verborgh (UGent-imec) <
> Ruben.Verborgh@UGent.be> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I don’t mind things either way, however, one important consideration:
>
> can we try an additional attempt at having more diversity among the chairs?
>
> I don’t mind taking a step back myself to make that happen.
>
>
>
> Additionally, it would be possible for all candidate chairs to introduce
> themselves
>
> at a bit more length?
>
>
>
> Here’s me:
>
>
> Ruben Verborgh is a professor of Semantic Web technology at Ghent
> University – imec and a research affiliate at the Decentralized Information
> Group at MIT. He’s also a Technology Evangelist at Inrupt for the Solid
> ecosystem of apps that let you keep your own data. He aims to build a more
> intelligent generation of clients for a decentralized Web at the
> intersection of Linked Data and hypermedia-driven Web APIs. Through the
> creation of Linked Data Fragments, he introduced a new paradigm for query
> execution at Web-scale. He has co-authored two books on Linked Data, and
> contributed to more than 250 publications for international conferences and
> journals on Web-related topics.
>
>
> Website: https://ruben.verborgh.org/
>
>
> For the Solid project:
>
> – I have deep knowledge about https://github.com/solid/node-solid-server
> and do bugfixes
>
> – I maintain https://github.com/solid/solid-auth-client
>
> – I’ve built https://github.com/solid/react-components and
> https://github.com/solid/query-ldflex/
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> Ruben
>
>