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

Is oshani or better yet, Sandro in the room?

Sandro would be a clear pick...

On Tue., 30 Oct. 2018, 8:26 pm Dalton Scott, <dalton@jigsaw.xyz> wrote:

> Hi Melvin,
>
> I would like to propose myself for chair.
>
> I am the Solid lead at Jigsaw XYZ, a London startup focused on empowering
> people to control their personal data (https://www.jigsaw.xyz/). We are
> currently exploring how Solid can be integrated with financial services.
>
> As I spend 50% of work week on Solid related projects, I could easily
> carve out some more time for this Community Group.
>
> I am also starting up a London Solid Meetup.
>
> Best,
> Dalton
>
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:39 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 23:54, "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.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Phil, I'd be happy to +1 you as chair
>>
>> The advice I was given is that having two chairs normally is quite nice.
>>
>> So I suggest we leave this open for a bit and see if anyone else has
>> interest.  If it's only 1-2 people then they could simply fill the slots.
>> If there's more we could vote etc.
>>
>> Then I suggest we can propose items we'd like to explore, or work on.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
> Dalton Scott
>