Volunteering for Co-Chair

Dear W3C Solid CG,

first, I'd like to thank all three of our co-chairs for the time and 
effort they put into this CG.
Thank you.

Second, I encourage the CG to continue to be active, to have meaningful 
discussions and to share any of their ideas.
Recall that there will be the Solid Symposium 2026 in London [1], which 
may be a good place to engage with others in person!

Third, I am surprised that there are no volunteers to help Pavlik with 
co-chairing the CG.
I would like to avoid having two vacant co-chair seats which would make 
me think that this CG is dormant - let's keep up our momentum.
Therefore, I volunteer to step in as co-chair of the group.


     For those who do not know me:

Hi, I am Christoph [2,3], online known as `uvdsl`. I have been working 
with Solid since 2019.
I am a fourth year PhD student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology 
(KIT) in the Web Science research group, and currently a guest 
researcher at FZI Research Center for Information Technology.
My research [4] revolves around interoperable identity and access 
management on the Web using emerging Web standards (Solid, Verifiable 
Credentials, ...).
While I am currently in the thick of writing my thesis, I care about 
this community and am happy to allocate the necessary time to support 
the CG.

     My involvement with Solid:

You might have met or seen me at one of the previous Solid Symposia 
[5,6,7] or at one of the various (Semantic) Web conferences, various CG 
meetings, on the gitter channels, or on the practitioners' meeting...
Most recently, I have been working on a front-end only implementation of 
Solid-OIDC [8] where I try to simultaneously keep it simple, adhere to 
best practices (as far as front-end only goes) and provide a decent 
developer experience.

     Looking forward:

Things that I would love to work on (if/when I have the capacity) 
include authorization granting (think AuthApp [9] from Project MANDAT 
[10]) accessible out-of-the-box, proper discovery of resources in a 
Solid Pod, and any other fun ideas.
However, as the CG lives only by active participation, I see the 
co-chairs' role rather as a facilitator to the ideas that we, you, 
everyone individually or jointly, are working on to move Solid forward.
So, just because I am excited about these things, other topics may be of 
more interest to a broader audience, so make yourself heard!


With that, I'd like to extend the offer to help co-chair the CG.

Note: Unfortunately, I will not be able to join tomorrow's CG meeting, 
but I can attend next week.
Please share your thoughts on this list or reach out directly if you'd 
like to discuss my bid.

Cheers
Christoph

[1] https://sosy2026.eu/
[2] https://uvdsl.solid.aifb.kit.edu/profile/card#me
[3] https://github.com/uvdsl
[4] https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=yL_3D4oAAAAJ&hl=en
[5] 
https://angelo.veltens.org/conferences/talks/65ce7a8e-50ad-45e7-a44d-827071f24906/session/index.html
[6] https://uvdsl.solid.aifb.kit.edu/conf/2024/sosy/tutorial
[7] 
https://sosy2025.eu/files/Posters/SoSy25-Poster-Christoph-Braun---Attested-Attribute-based-Access-Control.pdf
[8] https://github.com/uvdsl/solid-oidc-client-browser
[9] https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000172187
[10] https://vimeo.com/1062571527?share=copy#t=2921.799 at Solid World, 
co-presented with Tobias Käfer.

Received on Tuesday, 18 November 2025 16:24:22 UTC