Re: CG chair election - call for candidates

Hi everyone,

I would like to follow up on the next steps in the chair election 
process
https://www.w3.org/community/solid/charter/#choosing-a-chair

For this message, I'm wearing my CG co-chair hat 🤠

The nomination period is officially over. I would like to say a big 
thank you to all three candidates who submitted their self-nominations 
to the mailing list! In chronological order:
* Christoph Braun 
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2025Nov/0002.html
* Oghenerukevwe Precious Oritsedere 
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2025Nov/0003.html
* Theo - @thhck 
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2025Nov/0004.html

Given that the election was called for two seats, and we have 3 
candidates. We, specifically current chairs and candidates, will be 
collaborating on setting up voting and will be coordinating daily over 
the Matrix channel #solid_specification:gitter.im

Meanwhile, I would encourage everyone to engage with all candidates. For 
example, by:

Replying to one of the three self-nomination emails with questions for 
the specific candidate.
Creating a new thread on the mailing list with a question to all three 
candidates. Preferably with the subject line including something related 
to your question.

Technically, there are two other options available besides holding a 
vote:
* One of the candidates could withdraw their self-nomination
* I could resign and vacate the third chair seat
Either one would result in a matching number of chair seats and 
candidates and conclude the election. I'm going to consider vacating the 
third chair seat over the next couple of days.

Since there should be 6 people sharing all the effort related to running 
the vote, I expect it to run smoothly as long as we are coordinating it 
well. I mostly remember the drill from the 2023 election, and we still 
have some tooling made then.

As part of that process, I'm going to organize (over mentioned matrix 
channel) a special short-notice meeting, aiming for all the candidates 
to be present and as many as possible of the current chairs. Depending 
on how much common time we will be able to find. We will allocate time 
for real-time coordination of the voting process. I would also like to 
make part of that meeting open to the whole community as an opportunity 
to hold a conversation with all the candidates. I hope to be able to 
share concrete details in the next 2-3 days. Please stay tuned.

Best regards,
elf Pavlik

Received on Wednesday, 19 November 2025 23:50:51 UTC