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

I would like to propose myself as chair, as well.

I was a lead developer for the Solid project at MIT, the author of the
WebID-OIDC spec, and am still active in the Solid open source community (as
well as some of the next-generation Solid-compatible efforts for the
decentralized web at W3C, such as DIDs and Verifiable Credentials).


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:46 AM Oshani Seneviratne <oshanis@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>