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

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!

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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