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

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 17:38, Dmitri Zagidulin <dzagidulin@gmail.com> wrote:

> ::facepalms:: My apologies, I take that back. I just talked to some other
> Chairs of other CGs, and they pointed out that it's a time commitment way
> over the bandwidth that I have available right now. I withdraw my proposal.
>
> Adam - thank you so much for your vote of confidence.
>

Hey Dmitri!

The time commitment varies hugely from group to group, and really depends
on how much time the chair wants to put into it.  Ours is quite a small
group of about 50, but by no means the smallest out there.

For example, in the read write web group (which has about 90 members),
Andrei and I were chairs, and our "official" duties were roughly to respond
to about 1 staff email a year (e.g. asking do you want to host a workshop)

On top of that it's really up to the chairs if they'd like to do extra work
items, or guide the group in a certain way.  The idea of community groups
is extremely casual so members and chairs choose their own level or
participation.

I would +1 everyone that has volunteered, because normally in a CG it's not
so easy to get volunteers.  From my experience, between 1-3 chairs is an
ideal number.

That will be enough to get us going, and if necessary a more formal
chairing process could be worked on -- but it's normally not needed.


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> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:32 PM Adam Lake <alake@digitalbazaar.com>
> wrote:
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>> +1 to Dmitriz as chair. I would be happy to support him in this role.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On 10/30/2018 12:06 PM, Dmitri Zagidulin wrote:
>>
>> 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).
>>
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>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
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