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

Other notable picks would include danbri and Kingsley...

Nb also; https://au.webcivics.net/2018/10/24/wp-webcivics/

If interested, ping me.

On Thu., 25 Oct. 2018, 8:54 am "Phil J. Łaszkowicz", <phil@fillip.pro>
wrote:

> +1
>
> However… if Tim’s not available, happy to contribute here.
>
> My current focus is on developing an open decentralized web platform
> primarily written in Swift / Rust as a low-level, high performance solution
> intended to reduce the barrier for entry for non-technical web users, and
> increase discoverability for decentralized apps.
>
> I’m now working on WebID-TLS & WebID-OIDC implementations.
>
> Solid aligns well with what I’ve been doing already.
>
> I’ve not chaired before: I’ve had minor involvement in some CGs.
>
> On 24 Oct 2018, at 22.56, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> TimBL is the obvious choice
>
> On Thu., 25 Oct. 2018, 4:39 am Melvin Carvalho, <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This group does not have a Chair and thus cannot publish new reports.
>> Learn how to choose a Chair
>> <https://www.w3.org/community/about/tool/#choose-chair>.
>>
>> Is on the landing page of this group.  So I think we would be looking for
>> someone to volunteer.
>>
>> My experience of chairing a CG is that the duties are very light.  You
>> occasionally get a message from W3C about an event - maybe once a year or
>> so.  And you can then on top of that help out with small items of running
>> the group.  As we are 50 members, relatively small, the amount of traffic,
>> should be small I would guess.
>>
>> Every CG decides a process for choosing a chair.
>>
>> But often it's just a case of whoever volunteers.  Normally only 1 or 2
>> people do.  Or someone will step up if no one has.
>>
>> In an ideal world, more than one chair makes life a bit easier.
>>
>> So, does anyone want to chair this group.  Feel free to say a few words,
>> if you feel like it.
>>
>> If more than one person volunteers, we can have a process, such as a vote
>> -- which I guess we'll have to work out!
>>
>>
>>