Re: CfC: Call for consensus of proposed CG Charter

so 8. 2. 2025 v 13:44 odesílatel Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> napsal:

> On 2025-02-08 12:42, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> > On chair selection:
> >
> > We picked up a few lessons from the Solid CG. Originally, Sarven wanted
> > elections in all cases—even if there was only one candidate! Yes,
> > really. Over time, we landed on a more pragmatic approach: elections
> > only if there are four or more candidates.
>
>
> This is false. I never made the statements you claim, and there was
> never an election with only one candidate.
>

Sarven, I reached out to you privately to clear up any misunderstandings.
However, for the record, here is the relevant conversation between you and
Tim Berners-Lee:

    TBL: Can you explain why you have to *have an election if there is only
one candidate*?
    SC: Because *it's part of the agreement we have on the charter*.
    TBL: *Ridiculously bureaucratic*.

The key point I was making is that elections are only necessary when there
are four or more people applying for three positions. This was the approach
used in the Solid CG: I first confirmed interest on the mailing list, and
once we had five candidates, we proceeded with an election.

Conversely, if there are only one, two, or three candidates, an election
isn't necessary. This is a practical and efficient approach that aligns
with past precedent.


>
> Regarding your related comments in the 2025-02-07 Social CG meeting (
> https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/xg9jmplITMawKh9Z4pz0ig -- is there a
> persistent URL of the minutes?):
>
>  >Melvin: I personally was not terribly happy with the charter document
> we landed on. We ended up in a place where the there were three chairs
> affiliated with the same company.
>
> This is also false.
>
> The Solid CG charter ( https://www.w3.org/community/solid/charter/ )
> explicitly states:
>
>  >Chair nominees and elected chairs per term MUST have unique affiliations.
>
>  >An affiliation MAY submit one ballot that ranks candidates in their
> preferred order.
>
> When the election happened under this charter (with 5 chair candidates),
> two of the elected chairs were affiliated with two different
> organisations and one independent/unaffiliated.
>
> All data related to the 2023 election can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/w3c-cg/solid/tree/main/elections/2023
>
> In addition, an Internet Archive snapshot of the CG participants with
> the elected chairs:
>
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20231215173100/https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/solid/participants/
>
> Furthermore, I am requesting that in the future you refrain from
> mentioning my name in false statements, as I find this quite disturbing.
>
> Social CG chairs, please take note of this for the record.
>
> -Sarven
> https://csarven.ca/#i
>