A motivation for Webizens from the work on JSON-LD

Dear all,

I've just been pointed to this nice post Manu Sporny wrote some time ago:
http://manu.sporny.org/2014/json-ld-origins-2/

It's a fun/interesting read in general but I think this paragraph in
particular is relevant for the work on the Webizen idea:
"So, in 2010 we kicked off the JSON-LD work by making it radically open and
we fought for that openness every step of the way. Anyone can join the
group, anyone can vote on decisions, anyone can join the teleconferences,
there are no closed door sessions, and we record the audio of every
meeting. We successfully kept the technical work on the specification this
open from the beginning to the release of JSON-LD 1.0 web standard a week
ago. People came and went from the group over the years, but anyone could
participate at any level and that was probably the thing I’m most proud of
regarding the process that was used to create JSON-LD. Had we not have been
this open, Markus Lanthaler may have never gone from being a gifted student
in Italy to editor of the JSON-LD API specification and now leader of
the Hypermedia
Driven Web APIs community <http://www.markus-lanthaler.com/hydra/>. We also
may never have had the community backing to do some of the things we did in
JSON-LD, like kicking RDF in the nuts."

I see this as a clear example of how Webizen could have helped there.
Instead of coming from the outside or having needed to be affiliated with a
W3C member, Markus and the others could have been Webizen joining this WG
to give a hand.

What do you think ?

Cheers,
Christophe

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