Thanking Jacopo

> I am going to resign from chair

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webid/2024Mar/0012.html

I would like to thank Jacopo for his hard work as chair.

He obviously worked very hard, and won our trust.

He pushed through the superset spec that we all had consensus on in July.

IMHO he was then given an impossible task, partly by openlink, and partly
by others.  And that was to find consensus on moving forward, on WebID ED
2014, before WebID was defined consistently.

I do not blame Jacopo for this.

I am frustrated with the member(s) from OpenLink for changing their mind,
we had a path to success, and then aggressively pursued a high risk pivot.
I have for over a decade been a huge fan of OpenLink but in this case did
not cover themselves with glory IMHO.

I hope you will stick around in the group, Jacopo.  I agreed with
everything you did, until trying to take on the impossible task.

Perhaps you will change your mind.  I thank you for your effort, you tried
to succeed, but in truth I dont think any chair could have solved the multi
year impasse that the group was in, without first defining WebID.  A
valiant effort, thank you!

Received on Monday, 25 March 2024 12:55:43 UTC