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

Thanks for the thought, but I'm afraid my time is committed elsewhere 
<https://credweb.org/> right now.

      -- Sandro

On 10/30/18 5:36 AM, Timothy Holborn 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 23:54, "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.
>
>
>         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
>             <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. Learnhow 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
>