Re: Art steps down - thank you for everything

Sorry to hear you're leaving us, Art. Your skills and humor will be missed.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> wrote:

> Thank you Art.
>
> You carried out this group and community over so many years.
>
> Your first email to the AC was entitled "Just say NO?" as a response to a
> proposal from W3C. It will take a while for me to realize you won't be
> standing and come to the microphone to challenge us as you used to do for
> so many years.
>
> Philippe
>
>
> On 01/28/2016 10:45 AM, Chaals McCathie Nevile wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> as you may have noticed, Art has resigned as a co-chair of the Web
>> Platform group. He began chairing the Web Application Formats group
>> about a decade ago, became the leading co-chair when it merged with Web
>> APIs to become the Web Apps working group, and was instrumental in
>> making the transition from Web Apps to the Web Platform Group. (He also
>> chaired various other W3C groups in that time).
>>
>> I've been very privileged to work with Art on the webapps group for so
>> many years - as many of you know, without him it would have been a much
>> poorer group, and run much less smoothly. He did a great deal of work
>> for the group throughout his time as co-chair, efficiently, reliably,
>> and quietly.
>>
>> Now we are three co-chairs, we will work between us to fill Art's shoes.
>> It won't be easy.
>>
>> Thanks Art for everything you've done for the group for so long.
>>
>> Good luck, and I hope to see you around.
>>
>> Chaals
>>
>>
>

Received on Friday, 29 January 2016 19:19:35 UTC