Re: CfC: Call for consensus of proposed CG Charter

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 at 16:25, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

> so 8. 2. 2025 v 17:07 odesílatel Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
> napsal:
>
>> Melvin, just to be clear, when you said the following in
>> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Feb/0031.html :
>>
>>  >Sarven, I’d appreciate if comments on this were based on direct
>> participation in the meeting.
>>
>>  >Regarding your comments on the Social CG meeting, where you were not
>> present, these are draft minutes that haven’t been approved yet. I
>> recognize that I speak quickly in meetings, so I want to clarify:
>>
>> You have made two (arbitrary and unhelpful) requests that comments are
>> based only on direct meeting participation and that minutes are taken
>> with a grain of salt, and you yourself do not follow the behaviour you
>> request. Case in point, you were not present in the 2023-10-04 Solid CG
>> meeting that you were quoting without reference (
>>
>> https://github.com/solid/specification/blob/main/meetings/2023-10-04.md#cg-chairs-election
>> ) and you don't have the full context of the discussion.
>>
>> So you have no frame of reference here, Melvin.
>>
>> On 2025-02-08 15:16, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>> > 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:
>>
>> The context of the discussion was that the Solid CG election process
>> involves more than just the voting (
>> https://www.w3.org/community/solid/charter/#community-group-process ):
>>
>> it includes participating and voting rights, nominations and verifying
>> the eligibility of chair candidates, choosing chairs, and so on.
>>
>> The Solid CG agreed on the charter and we abide by it:
>>
>>  >If, at the end of nominations, any given seat only has a single
>> candidate, that candidate immediately wins that seat. For any seats with
>> multiple nominees, there will be an election for those seats.
>>
>> I will not be responding to this thread and I prefer you don't contact
>> me in private. Please stop misquoting me or misrepresenting my actions.
>>
>
> Thank you!  This is a CfC thread, let's get back to on-topic!
>

Should guidance or policy not come from the W3C ?

Aaron


>
>
>>
>> I'd be happy to provide more background (e.g.,
>> https://github.com/solid/process/pull/323 ) and share insights from the
>> CG's experience. If anyone is interested in the Solid CG charter
>> development and/or the election process, feel free to reach out in
>> public to me or others who were directly involved in the development of
>> these efforts.
>>
>> -Sarven
>> https://csarven.ca/#i
>>
>>

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