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

Hi Sandro - i saw that work, haven't had time to do much more than simply
note - i've seen that it exists.

I'm still thinking of alternatives for the chair role, and i think more
work needs to be put in on the underlying scaffolding as to attract the
best leader for the job.  I am hopeful Jim Hendler might have some ideas
for various reasons; having written about my thoughts here:
https://au.webcivics.net/2018/10/31/w3-solid-community-looking-for-global-standards-leadership/


Therein; now therefore, 5 considerations,

1. Ensure more people are aware of solid group
2. Work on defining community management frameworks that support the needs
of a 'wouldn't it be awesome' chair.
3. Work on building better tools (based on solid) to ensure the knowledge
management needs of group works are made more easily managed.
4. There is not a clearly available series of resources that provide those
new to solid a full comprehension of the ecosystem constituents.  solving
(3) should address this emerging issue.
5.  This means the scope of these w3 CG works should support meaningful
(and focused) engagement on the resolution of emerging issues.

Manu Sporny has demonstrated a framework for managing CG works in a way
that gets things done.  These frameworks include weekly teleconferences
amongst other things.  I note also, as the teleconferences have been at 2AM
AEST time - that's not been great for me (aussie) nor is it helpful for
others in this part of the world, but its part of broader issues that i
believe solid is going to be instrumental to addressing.  Yet, there is a
long-standing debate that has gone on between the worlds of JSONLD and N3;
as such, whilst i am very hopeful for the ecosystem of participants led by
Manu to be instrumentally involved, it doesn't make sense to me that he be
chair.

IMHO - We really need a 'peak leader' that's able to contend with the
issues outlined in my document.  Perhaps in the mean-time we need an
interim chair, and one of the aims of that interim solid cg group chair, is
to facilitate the needs of a longer-term illustrious leader; for the
betterment of the our means to deliver outcomes as a group, that will have
an array of external influencers.

note: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List  nothing done here will
result in any form of w3c standard without the express support of those on
that membership list; and certainly, the implications of what should be
considered 'WIP' cannot and will not exclusively be done in W3.   (imho).

I do hope, w3c becomes an important constituent to these works on an
on-going basis.  I think its quite important that be brought about.

Timo.


On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 10:33 Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org> wrote:

> 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> 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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