Re: Inviting volunteer self-nominations for Solid CG co-chair empty seat

pá 22. 11. 2024 v 14:49 odesílatel Han Su <suhan@nyu.edu> napsal:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm interested in self-nomination to volunteer as the co-chair of Solid
> for the next year.
>
> My name is Han Su, founder of https://voce.chat, NYU and MIT alumnus. I
> have been following Solid since 2017, and attended several meetings every
> now and then. I always want to make some contributions to the community. My
> main goal is to involve more open-source developers and university
> researchers to build on Solid.
>
> I'm a founder with a background in tech. I've worked with open-source
> developers from different countries on several projects. The most complex
> one is a rust implementation of the Matrix protocol. See
> https://palpo.chat (some features are still under development but ready
> to be tested). In the past 7 years, the most frequent thing I heard from
> people interested in Solid is that "how/where to use it?". If I were to
> serve as a co-chair, apart from fulfilling the required work of the
> co-chair of Solid, I will try to do some infrastructure work for people
> interested in Solid. I will allocate some resources and start a new
> open-sourced Solid implementation under MIT or Apache 2.0 license that's
> less buggy than the current node.js one, and provide a thorough doc for
> developers. If this sounds like a good starting point for you, I will make
> sure to deliver this infrastructure in the next year with no funding
> needed.
>
> I also have collected some ideas from people interested in building based
> on Solid (but finding out the nodejs implementation not robust enough to
> use):
>
>    - *Public-key auth with Solid Pods*
>    - *A one-password like app based on Solid Pods, with API integration
>    to pull data back to PoD(X, instagram, email, etc.)*
>    - *A personal AI agent doing RAG with Solid PoDs.*
>
> I will try to facilitate these projects as well. Thanks!
>

Hi Han,

Thanks for volunteering! I was hopeful you’d make the cut, as your fresh
and diverse perspectives I think would be very valuable.

IMHO, a modern Solid implementation that’s less buggy is very much needed.
NSS seems to be approaching the end of its lifecycle, with feature drift.
CSS has a large codebase.  Pivot has not had a huge amount of activity
since its inception.

I’d still love to see a modern, open-source Solid implementation and would
be very interested in your designs or discussing further, if you’re still
inspired to pursue it.

Best,
Melvin


>
> Best,
> Han
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 3:52 AM Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for clarifying! We hadn't interpreted it that way but I guess that
>> also makes sense, and you are after all a main author of that charter text.
>> :)
>>
>> OK, so this invitation to self-nominate is to fill the third co-chair
>> seat for a *one-*year period (December 2024 - December 2025), not a
>> two-year period. Sorry for the confusion.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Michiel.
>>
>> On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 at 10:59, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-11-21 10:03, Michiel de Jong wrote:
>>> > Hello everyone,
>>> >
>>> > Thanking Virginia for her service, and in adherence to our charter
>>> > (https://www.w3.org/community/solid/charter/
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www..w3.org_community_solid_charter_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=T1pykEihkhiS-DVIgpaOnA&m=Yn1lX1xuzryOKVY12Bh5vgpGxKrwfHQTO_dEtr7Ae1n3mLdCAOHsQMt5XJZYNxQm&s=2PXecNnojv8W0urvydvAu5DobgGfs7yJFIqFexwMMhI&e=>
>>> <https://www.w3..org/
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.w3.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=T1pykEihkhiS-DVIgpaOnA&m=Yn1lX1xuzryOKVY12Bh5vgpGxKrwfHQTO_dEtr7Ae1n3mLdCAOHsQMt5XJZYNxQm&s=Wrmjpkg1YqTk3iwaLopomJ40gWX9hqIuybX_wkzjSh4&e=>
>>> > community/solid/charter/>), Hadrian and I would like to invite each of
>>> > you to consider volunteering as a Solid CG co-chair, for a 2 year
>>> cycle
>>> > of service as defined by our charter. Since this chairing year is
>>> > already ending in a few weeks from now, there will be no interim
>>> > chair. For more information about CG chairs, see https://www.w3.org/
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.w3.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=T1pykEihkhiS-DVIgpaOnA&m=Yn1lX1xuzryOKVY12Bh5vgpGxKrwfHQTO_dEtr7Ae1n3mLdCAOHsQMt5XJZYNxQm&s=Wrmjpkg1YqTk3iwaLopomJ40gWX9hqIuybX_wkzjSh4&e=>
>>> > community/solid/charter/#chairs <https://www.w3.org/community/solid/
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.w3.org_community_solid_&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=T1pykEihkhiS-DVIgpaOnA&m=Yn1lX1xuzryOKVY12Bh5vgpGxKrwfHQTO_dEtr7Ae1n3mLdCAOHsQMt5XJZYNxQm&s=Jpo06FkUxvCfZmuVqLXiFAvBj1onPdRYpDTHhMQQp4w&e=>
>>> > charter/#chairs>.
>>>
>>>
>>> The charter explains that an interim vacancy occurs when a chair steps
>>> down before the natural end of their "2 year cycle of service".
>>>
>>> Virginia Balseiro was appointed on 2023-12-23, meaning her natural cycle
>>> was set to end on 2025-12-22. The same holds true for the current chairs
>>> ( https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2023Dec/0027.html
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.w3.org_Archives_Public_public-2Dsolid_2023Dec_0027.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=T1pykEihkhiS-DVIgpaOnA&m=Yn1lX1xuzryOKVY12Bh5vgpGxKrwfHQTO_dEtr7Ae1n3mLdCAOHsQMt5XJZYNxQm&s=69SEVab2w2IcevoqefV998IMVyIPoGUI1Vt80j0lI4U&e=>
>>> ).
>>>
>>> The premise you're building on is not aligned with the charter. The
>>> charter states (
>>> https://www.w3.org/community/solid/charter/#choosing-a-chair
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.w3.org_community_solid_charter_-23choosing-2Da-2Dchair&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=T1pykEihkhiS-DVIgpaOnA&m=Yn1lX1xuzryOKVY12Bh5vgpGxKrwfHQTO_dEtr7Ae1n3mLdCAOHsQMt5XJZYNxQm&s=CR0iOKByunqAvyKqQjyBrdvfaCVprL-aau2dZF2pEQs&e=>
>>> ):
>>>
>>>  >In the case of interim vacancy, the remaining chairs may appoint a
>>> co-chair for each open seat, hold an election for the same, or wait
>>> until the next election, at their discretion. If the chairs do not take
>>> any action, the seat will automatically be up for election in any cycle.
>>> Any such interim appointments or elections shall hold the seat until the
>>> end of its natural cycle.
>>>
>>> The options available are as follows:
>>>
>>> * the CG can continue with two chairs until 2025-12-22, or
>>> * the current chairs can appoint a third interim chair to serve until
>>> 2025-12-22, or
>>> * the current chairs can hold an election to fill the third co-chair
>>> seat until 2025-12-22 (see also "multiple nominees").
>>>
>>> Regardless of the option, there will be an election for all three chair
>>> seats, with new terms (expected to) starting on 2025-12-23.
>>>
>>> If you wish to set up an election now, that is of course still within
>>> the rights of the honourable chairs...
>>>
>>> -Sarven
>>> https://csarven.ca/#i
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__csarven.ca_-23i&d=DwMFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=T1pykEihkhiS-DVIgpaOnA&m=Yn1lX1xuzryOKVY12Bh5vgpGxKrwfHQTO_dEtr7Ae1n3mLdCAOHsQMt5XJZYNxQm&s=ziyeKdeBoH0YHT35cYBdvwFWNohUmy3XHk6UOcbTn4w&e=>
>>>
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