Re: Passing the baton - I’m leaving the post of WEBRTC chair

Good grief, has it really been 13 years? Sometimes it feels _much_ longer!

You should feel proud of your contribution to getting this argumentative group to agree and _ship_ a huge success, with many fewer flaws than it might easily have had.


Thanks, and welcome to the metaphorical back row of the classroom :-)

Tim.

> On 2 Oct 2024, at 10:11, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
> 
> Hello folks,
> It’s been a long time - I’ve been chairing this group since it was created on March 15, 2011. That’s 13 and a half years - more time than I’ve spent in any other role.
> 
> It’s been a joy to see WebRTC grow from an idea to a fully fledged API specification as a result of the work of this group - to see the maturation from “idea” to the most widely deployed realtime video API in human history, supporting the collaborative work of many millions of people every singe day, bringing the vision of the connecting Web into reality.
> 
> There have been high points and low points - strong disagreements and moments of smooth consensus - but all along, the strong commitment of the WG members to bringing about this revolution in human communication has been the thing that carried us forward.
> 
> I’ll not be leaving WEBRTC - I’ll be active as a document editor, debater and argument contributor - but it will be my pleasure to support Guido Urdaneta as a new working group chair, and contributing to the work of the working group for a long time to come.
> 
> We changed the world - let’s continue to do so!
> 
> 
> Harald
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 2 October 2024 09:38:54 UTC