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

On 10/24/18 6:11 PM, Timothy Holborn wrote:
> Other notable picks would include danbri and Kingsley...  
>
> Nb also; https://au.webcivics.net/2018/10/24/wp-webcivics/
>
> If interested, ping me.

Thanks, I am unavailable for this kind of effort. I am way too busy in
the weeds, across numerous frontiers.

Kingsley
>
> On Thu., 25 Oct. 2018, 8:54 am "Phil J. Łaszkowicz", <phil@fillip.pro
> <mailto: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 <mailto:timothy.holborn@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>>     TimBL is the obvious choice
>>
>>     On Thu., 25 Oct. 2018, 4:39 am Melvin Carvalho,
>>     <melvincarvalho@gmail.com <mailto: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!
>>
>>

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