Re: Art steps down - thank you for everything

Thank you Art! It has been a great experience and joy working with you.
Your calm leadership and warm support will be missed.

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 4:18 AM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>


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Jungkee Song

Received on Saturday, 30 January 2016 12:29:49 UTC