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

Hello Tim Holborn,

Thank you for the email.
I am very excited about the SOLID project and the community. However,
unfortunately I will not have enough bandwidth to effectively chair this
community group.
I am however an ardent supporter of the project, and I have been and will
be using the concepts from the SOLID spec in my own research.

Thanks,
Oshani

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:37 AM Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>
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