- From: Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 06:31:38 -0700
- To: Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>
- Cc: Yosuke Funahashi <yosuke@funahashi.cc>, public-w3process <public-w3process@w3.org>, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>
- Message-ID: <CAJK2wqWp7PppTHqYr00w6Eg9ga0=LABG9E0sMgYqNbQpujhLBg@mail.gmail.com>
TL;DR: I agree with Chaals. I do not support notably increasing the size of the AB, nor making it self-selective (since it's impossible to do that without making it much larger), and I do not support getting rid of it altogether. I do support making it as transparent as possible. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Charles McCathie Nevile < chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 14:29:41 +0200, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On 6/6/14 11:42 AM, Yosuke Funahashi wrote: >> >>> On 6/7/14, 12:30 AM, Michael Champion (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: >>> >>>> BUT I still think the much worse problem is that we have qualified and >>>> committed people who wish to contribute to the AB/TAG but aren't elected >>>> because we are forced to select only 5 of them each year. Nothing I've >>>> seen in these threads indicates that there are more than 20-30 people in >>>> the consortium who know/care enough about what either group does and have >>>> the employer support to spend time on it. I'm just not convinced that >>>> there would have been a downside to having all 12 of the people who ran for >>>> the AB this year be seated, and letting them self-select who stays >>>> depending on their actual contributions. Take away the fun of the >>>> competition and the supposed prestige of winning, we'll be left with the >>>> people who really want to spend their time working to improve how W3C runs >>>> and what it says about the architecture of the Web. >>>> >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> This is one of the reasons why I wrote a message that we should make the >>> AB open. Some people sounded comfortable with keeping the AB small or >>> current size, which I don't understand at all. >>> >> >> For the record, I also support increasing the size of the AB. >> > > For the record I still don't support notably increasing its size. > > > Of course I also [again] support making it self-selective. >> > > I do not support this either. Having an elected, representative AB allows > AC reps to trust the people who represent them. This is why I think it is > very important to have the AB selected in a manner that represents the > desires of the AC as best possible. > > I do support moving as much as possible of what it does to the AC at > large, or community groups, and making the AB's work as transparent as > possible (this allows AC reps to check that the people they trust really > *are* representing them). > > > I would also support deleting the AB all together and having its `role` >> usurped by AC reps (as well as some set of Webizens). >> > > I do not support deleting the AB altogether. > > I do think it is important that it is as transparent as possible, > consistent with giving the team the ability to hold conversations in > confidence on matters they think are sensitive and are not comfortable > asking the AC at large. > > I think it is also important that the AB make a significant commitment to > be available, that AC reps at large do not and should not have to make. > > cheers > > -- > Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex > chaals@yandex-team.ru Find more at http://yandex.com > >
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