RE: Acknowledgements

I'd like to clarify my position.  For me, this is less about a standards track document, and more about lack of W3C principles [1] in the leadership of this community.

In other words, if we did have principled [1] leadership, I would be willing to remain a productive member of this community until such time as we collectively believed we were ready for standards track.  But in the current state, I feel like a pawn used to advertise/promote/endorse Google's private initiative.  So "standard" with a capital S or not, I don't see good reason to put my name behind this.

If the leadership was willing to have an open and candid discussion, I would happily reconsider.

[1] http://open-stand.org/principles/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deborah Dahl [mailto:dahl@conversational-technologies.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:02 AM
> To: 'Jim Barnett'; Young, Milan; 'Glen Shires'; public-speech-api@w3.org
> Subject: RE: Acknowledgements
> 
> I very much appreciate the suggestion that other people should be recognized
> for their contributions to the document, but I agree with Jim and Milan that I
> would rather wait until we have a standards-track draft before being listed as
> an author.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Barnett [mailto:Jim.Barnett@genesyslab.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 10:49 AM
> > To: Young, Milan; Glen Shires; public-speech-api@w3.org
> > Subject: RE: Acknowledgements
> >
> > My sentiments are similar to Milan's.  I'm not comfortable putting my
> > name on something that is not headed towards a standards track.
> >
> > - Jim
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Young, Milan [mailto:Milan.Young@nuance.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 1:31 PM
> > To: Glen Shires; public-speech-api@w3.org
> > Subject: RE: Acknowledgements
> >
> > Glen,
> >
> > I would like to put my support behind the spec we have developed, and
> > thus would appreciate being listed as an author.  On the other hand,
> > I'm concerned that my name would also be viewed as an endorsement of
> > this CG, which, given the state of leadership, is not something I'm
> > ready to offer.
> >
> > I request that you please withhold my name until such time as we agree
> > on the future direction of this specification.  I also suggest that
> > you give others ample time (eg a week) so that they may similarly
> > decide on their endorsement.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Glen Shires [mailto:gshires@google.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 8:20 AM
> > > To: public-speech-api@w3.org
> > > Subject: Acknowledgements
> > >
> > > I went through the mailing list archives to help determine those who
> > > have contributed most significantly to this spec.  I propose listing
> > > Authors at the top of the spec and others in the Acknowledgements
> > > section. If there's no objections, I'll add these on Wednesday.
> > >
> > > I plan to list the following people as Authors:
> > >
> > > - Jim Barnett, Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories
> > > - Gerardo Capiel, Benetech
> > > - Jerry Carter
> > > - Deborah Dahl, Conversational Technologies
> > > - Nagesh Kharidi, Openstream, Inc.
> > > - Dominic Mazzoni, Google, Inc.
> > > - Olli Pettay, Mozilla Foundation
> > > - Satish Sampath, Google, Inc.
> > > - Adam Sobieski, Phoster, Inc.
> > > - Milan Young, Nuance Communications, Inc.
> > >
> > > I plan to list the following people in Acknowledgements:
> > >
> > > - Peter Beverloo, Google, Inc.
> > > - Bjorn Bringert, Google, Inc.
> > > - Charles Pritchard
> > > - Raj Tumuluri, Openstream, Inc.
> >
> >
>

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